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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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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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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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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Well, 26.2 miles is a long way. I knew that before yesterday’s L.A. Marathon, but that fact of just how long became very clear to me somewhere after about mile 13. I spent the last six months training for the race, and ran two 20-mile training runs among all of the other miles I put […]

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The marathon is tomorrow, and all of my stuff is laid out and ready to go. I affixed my number to my shirt, and noticed that my age seems to have jumped to 49 overnight. Oh well – I’ll be happy to still be running marathons in 14 years… Here’s hoping for a cool day […]

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This morning called for a four-mile run, not really noteworthy, except for the fact that I hadn’t run only four miles since sometime in September of 2009, when I officially started training for the marathon. It’s tapering week, which feels good, though I still manage to feel winded when I’m done. The big day is […]

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I can finally say I’ve been to an opening for a font. Last night, House Industries held a reception for their new family of typefaces, Eames Century Modern, at the Eames Office just down Pico in Santa Monica. The event was great, a nice chance to look around the Eames office, rub shoulders with design […]

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We enjoyed our fourth trip to the big event this past weekend, with the requisite red carpet claustrophobia and lobby bar sightings. Sure am glad I bought that tux all those years ago…

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As we enter a very busy month of March, a little catch-up on February before it slips away: it’s awards season, which has meant lots of screenings and some late nights of overtime. We also welcomed Caroline to L.A. from Austin, and enjoyed hanging out with her and Keith for dinner at Street as well […]

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Amidst all of the work in the run-up to the show and my ever-increasing marathon training as the big day (March 21, 38 days from today) approaches, I haven’t had a chance to reflect on the passage of another year — which is probably for the best. After our weekend in Palm Springs last week, […]

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