Regency Village Theater The Town Wednesday, 9/22/10, 7:20 pm Price: $11.50, plus $1.25 for meter parking on a nearby street. Concessions: None Audience: 75 or so in a theater that seats 1300+ Trailers/advertising: Trailers for Jackass 3D, Burlesque, The Tourist, Hereafter (again?), Life As We Know It. Projection: 35mm platter, excellent presentation. I’ve long been […]

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Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14 The American Tuesday, 9/21/10, 7:35 pm Price: $12.75, plus $2 for validated parking. Concessions: None Audience: 7 people in Theater 9, which seemed like it seated about 100. Trailers/advertising: Trailers for Morning Glory, Hereafter, Conviction, Somewhere, and Let Me In. Projection: 35mm platter, looked good, but for some reason, an […]

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The ArcLight Hollywood Inception Monday, 9/20/10, 7:05 pm Price: $12.50 (Members Non Peak price, apparently) Concessions: None Audience: 14 people in Theater 1, which seats about 150. Trailers/advertising: Trailers for Fair Game, Hereafter, Due Date, and Let Me In. No ads. Projection: 35mm platter, which looked great, and a thunderous sound system. The ArcLight in […]

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The Laemmle Sunset 5 I’m Still Here Sunday, 9/19/10, 9:50 pm Price: $11 Concessions: None Audience: About 20-25 people, not bad for a late night documentary that has been getting panned.Trailers/advertising: Trailers for Picture Me, Howl, Kings of Pastry, and Prince of Broadway. Projection: 35mm platter, which looked fine but not great. With Aimee and […]

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During our trip to Ann Arbor this weekend for Paul and Vicky’s wedding, I snuck out to visit 826 Michigan’s Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair, the seventh and final 826 storefront I’ve visited. It was charming and full of fun surprises, like all the other stores, and I had a good time chatting with […]

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This should explain where I’ve been the past few weeks.

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Well, it’s been quite a week. This time last week, Aimee and her parents and I were eating dinner in the backyard after a day spent visiting me at work, taking a tour, and going out to lunch. Late that night, Aimee’s water broke, and we were on our way to the hospital. Now, I […]

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We took care of the most important improvements when we first moved in more than a year ago – getting rid of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, replacing the green tile in the bathroom, taking down every last inch of wallpaper – but the shed out back always seemed to me to have a lot of potential. […]

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The project I initiated last year during our vacation in Wellington and followed up on with a week of film inspection this spring made news today, as it was revealed that a number of exciting films, some of which were thought to be lost, will be returning to the United States, eighty years after they […]

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I’ll recap the highlights of our weekend in San Diego before it fades into oblivion… Rather than driving there, this time we drove to my office, walked to the subway station, took the Red Line to Union Station, and took the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner to San Diego. All in all, it was a pleasant trip, […]

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We’re in San Diego, staying at the Holiday Inn Express, across from the landmark El Cortez. It’s apparent from the look of the hotel that it used to be something else, something noteworthy; little did we know that it used to be the Travolator Motor Hotel, linked to the El Cortez by the world’s first […]

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Hard to believe my car is 15 years old.

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It’s been a busy month so far, and a pleasant spring, with mild weather and productive, fun weekends. This past weekend, we started off on Friday night with dinner at Osteria Mozza, finally (thanks for the gift certificate from two years ago, Paul!), which was delicious – I had squid ink pasta with lobster and […]

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I feel like most of my blog post titles refer to time passing quicker than expected. Maybe it’s just that I’ve run out of titles for posts that aren’t about some sort of event. Anyway, it’s been nearly a month since I returned from New Zealand, and it’s high time I get caught up on […]

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I think I was a little premature in declaring that winter was on its way yesterday. This morning was as beautiful, blue-skied and cloudless as any in my nine day here. I decided to take advantage of it by heading for a run up to the Mt. Victoria lookout. It was about a 20-minute run, […]

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