For the first time in more than 20 years, the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives retuned to the U.S., co-hosted in Los Angeles by the Academy Film Archive and at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. After Macedonia, Sydney and Canberra, and Bologna, the location seemed a bit pedestrian to many in […]

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Thanks to some thoughtful planning on the part of the FIAF Secretariat, I was able to painlessly combine my already planned trip west for the AMIA Conference in Portland with the somewhat unexpected and definitely financially unforeseen trip to the EC Meeting in Los Angeles, held over the two days prior to AMIA. It was […]

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One of the first photos Grace ever took, as we sat in the office in West L.A. She was holding my SLR, which seemed like it weighed about half what she did, and she struggled to hold it up and get her finger on the shutter at the same time. I feel old in this […]

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One day-old Lucy sits in my arms as we rest at the hospital in Santa Monica. Two kids, officially gray-haired. I’m pretty sure I’m not actually asleep, and for the first year or so of her life, it felt like Lucy wasn’t, either. She’s completely different now, of course, but those early days, the four […]

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It’s funny, looking at this photo of Grace now, how she’s instantly recognizable to me, yet looks nothing like the Grace of today. Here, on October 2, 2010, she’s not even three months old, as she sits in my lap at a park in Los Angeles. There’s nothing like having a kid to make you […]

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Los Angeles! Our time in the big, weird, beautiful, crazy city is well documented here on the blog. We moved in the summer of 2006, and lived in a nice little apartment in West Hollywood, almost walking distance from my work at the film archive, and in the middle of an ever-changing lineup of restaurants, […]

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After three months, we finally completed the second stage of our major, two-stage cross-country move this week. Back in July, we packed up the house in L.A. and had everything moved to Aimee’s parents’ place in Rhode Island, where it sat in the garage as we searched for a house in New Haven and surroundings. […]

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It was just two summers ago that it arrived here, but the photobooth in our backyard has been an important and much-loved part of the house. It also requires a little more special attention than the rest of our stuff, and last night, Jeff, Keith, Eric, and I tackled getting it out of the shed, […]

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For the better part of the last year, the possibility of moving back to the East Coast has been in the air at our house. I applied for a position at Yale University back in July, 2012, and over the last few months, beginning in January, I worked my way through the interview process, finishing […]

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I regret not making an effort to see Endeavour as she made her way slowly through the streets of Los Angeles earlier this year, but we finally went to see her in person at the California Science Center. Numerous times since we visited, Grace has asked Aimee, “Did you know she saw the REAL Space […]

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We visited Descanso Gardens this weekend, and Grace and I had a great time riding around on the garden train.

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Back in the fall of 2007, I attended my first Lebowski Fest in Los Angeles. This year, its fifteenth anniversary, I thought I’d go again, and see the film in 35mm for the first time since it came out. I’d never been to the Saban Theater before, so I was happy to be able to […]

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We went on our first family trip as a foursome last weekend in anticipation of my birthday, a road trip to Palm Springs. While Lucy didn’t seem to love the car ride out there, Grace impressed us with her ability to sleep with a three month-old screaming at the top of her lungs next to […]

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The news of Huell Howser’s passing this week came as a sad shock, an unexpected and abrupt end to a life that had given us so much over the last few years. From the moment we moved here, I began recording every one of his many PBS travel and history shows and watching them religiously, […]

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As I finished up my U.S. map puzzle, I got started on my second project, a drop-leaf Lego table. I’d seen tables before with baseplates as the surface, but I wanted something bigger than this IKEA hack and smaller than this dining room table extravaganza. I wanted it to have some Lego storage underneath, and […]

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