On Saturday night I picked Sam up from LAX. She had just spend two weeks in Hong Kong for work. Her reintroduction to Los Angeles was fitting as we went to Whole Foods for a bit to eat and then headed to Bergamot Station for a gallery opening. The show was Conjoined II at the […]
sturtevant falls
Maybe a month ago Sam and I planned to spend a Saturday in January hiking to a waterfall with Cindy. A little over a week ago Sam was informed she’d have to go to China for work for a few weeks. This waterfall turned out to be a decent one, so it’s a shame that […]
Feeling old
Cool, right? “Wish I got to play Rage songs when I was in band” I thought. Lucky kids, when I was in marching band we had to play Carlos Santana songs and Earth Wind and Fire… lame! After a few seconds a wave of depression crept over me as I realized that a 20 year […]
Ohio Trip 2012
After three years away my mother convinced me it was time to visit the house I grew up in. On New Year’s Eve I sat through two sold out Southwest flights and ended up at the Columbus Ohio airport around 8pm EST. We drove through the night down lonely four lane divided highways to end […]
Christmas in Los Angeles
This Christmas found me sick with a chest cold. As a result, Sam and I spent most of the three day weekend skipping other obligations and watching movies. In short: Conan: bad (unless you like blood gushing from smashed heads like stewed tomatoes ) Midnight in Paris: bad (if only for the hard-to-take-seriously Owen […]
Thanksgiving weekend
On the weekend before thanksgiving Sam and I went to Costco to pick out a wine to bring to our friends’ house on Thanksgiving. Sam decided to get an extra bottle of Moscato to drink with our dinner of crab legs and lobster bisque. We like the wine and ended up finishing the bottle while […]
Copro + Rubio Canyon
Sam has gotten into the habit of making a new dish every weekend for both of us to eat throughout the week for lunch and/or dinner. I certainly can’t complain about this culinary experiment as it has been filled wish spectacular results like the above beef stroganoff and the below lamb chops. The above food […]
Abbot-Kinney First Fridays October
On Friday Sam and I drove to Venice for the Abbot Kinney Boulevard First Fridays “event.” Our plan was to walk around and find a cool place to eat dinner. Unfortunately there were many more food trucks than restaurants. In the photo below you can see the line for the Grilled Cheese truck (the orange […]
Beyond Eden 2011
On Saturday night Sam and I made two trips to “Thai Town.” We first went to the Thai market in the valley (Sherman Way and Reseda intersection) to buy fresh fried fish, BBQ meat on a stick, sausage on a stick, mangosteen juice and guava juice. Later in the day we went to Thai Town […]
Synchronicity
I knew my father had been to Thailand when he was in the Air Force. In fact, I knew he’d been to Bangkok and was stationed at Udorn before it was an “official” base. Bangkok seems to be an entirely different city now, except for the Grand Palace, which has remained exactly the same. Bangkok […]