We had a great 24 hours in Avalon this past weekend, from the ferry ride over, which included some whale-spotting, to our nice little B&B, the tour of the Casino, and dinner on the water. It was just a half hour to Long Beach, then an hour on the Catalina Express, and we were in […]

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We’re spending the weekend, or 24 hours of it, at least, on Catalina. It’s a beautiful day out here, sunny and breezy, and we’ve spent the afternoon wandering around the harbor. We’re about to take a tour of the Casino (and that’s “Casino” as in Italian for “place of gathering” rather than place of gambling). […]

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Back when I lived in Connecticut, I returned after a summer away to discover that the basement, where I’d been storing my stuff for the summer, had flooded, and my photos, books, and film journals had been soaked. In some cases they were salvageable, and in other cases, I had to chuck them. So, I […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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I nabbed a couple of tickets to see Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco (the only member of the bizarro supergroup I’d never heard of before) at the Orpheum last night. I was able to get rid of my extra ticket (to someone who’d driven up from San Diego in hopes […]

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