On Saturday afternoon Sam and I filled our stomachs with food from Whole Foods’ salad bar and headed to Griffith Park to burn it off before watching the Independent Shakespeare Company’s performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost. I thought we’d just wander up and down a few familiar trails and then pick our place on the lawn for […]
Art Walk August
One of my coworkers has been bragging all week about how he is going to get everyone at the office sick, because he is sick. By Thursday night I was starting to feel his prediction come true. My throat was starting to feel funny – and by midnight I would have a beginner’s grade sore […]
one fishy corny dry weekend
One of the more difficult parts of preparing for going to Thailand later this month was figuring out how to get rid of my goldfish. I didn’t want to ask anyone to feed it because I’d really been meaning to get rid of it anyway; I just don’t have the time to take care of […]
One Hell of a Month
Anyone who calculates buying vs. renting knows that it is necessary to include maintenance costs into the expense of buying. What one can’t account for is the “gotcha!” nature of the pratfalls of ownership. You never know what might be hidden in the walls of your home. If you’re a renter, you don’t care; that’s […]
Copro Nason and the USS Abraham Lincoln
After having a lengthy conversation of commiseration about our HOA with my next-door neighbor I found out that they had been the ones that turned off my cold water (by accident) the night before. I found the valve (no thanks to the HOA, which refuses to divulge this information to owners even though we’re expected […]
Hamlet in the Park
Last year Sam and I attended our first Independent Shakespeare Co. production in Griffith Park, Much Ado About Nothing. This year we decided to come back armed with food and a blanket. We were unfamiliar with the content of the play last year, which made things even tougher. This year, though, we decided to start […]
The Perils of People Thinking You’re an Artist
I wanted to be an artist since I was very little. At first I wanted to draw comic books, and tried to create my own several times. I don’t mean I went to a publisher, I mean I bought a sketchbook, created my own characters with a storyline and filled up the sketchbook like it […]
Art Walk July
Since Sam was in China I attended this month’s Art Walk by myself. My first stop was the “last bookstore,” which, unlike what I predicted last month, was still operating and seemed to have more books than before and things like fake wooly mammoth heads on the walls. The bookstore is on the first floor […]
Art Bubble
I try to keep my finger on the pulse of the art community. Lately there have been whispers of an art bubble. Of course, we’ve heard this more than once before. I don’t know if there is such a thing as a bubble in art. Many collectors buy no matter what the price because they […]
Adventures of the (fake) young liberal elite
On Friday night Sam and I went to the (expectedly) disappointing Green Lantern film. After we got home Sam had a craving. A craving for what? Well, see below. I don’t even remember what these are called, but they’re good. Prosciutto (this photo was taken in the middle of adding it) topping off lumps of fresh mozzarella […]