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From Out Of The Blue
I’m not going to do much explaining here largely because I am still too blown away to translate my feelings. In my inbox yesterday was a note with the subject line “Response To Review” that read as...
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It was last summer when I read Lucas Crown’s piece in Los Angeles Magazine about the enigmatic life and times and writings of his friend, novelist Mercedes Lambert who died in 2003 at the age of 55. It...
View ArticleOne Classic Begat My Love Of Another
My favorite symphony is Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” also known as his 4th Symphony. I discovered it as a 7th grader when my mother put the record she had of it on the old Admiral Hi-Fi with the pull...
View ArticleAnd That’s All I Have To Say About That
Best way to honor JD Salinger is to pay no attention to his demise. He would’ve wanted it that way.
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This past few week has been a bit of a behind-the-scenes whirlwind of anticipation. Thanks to a heads-up from LA Metblog Capt. Lucinda Michele, I found out about a great gig offered via Craigslist by...
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The Serendipitous Roundabout Way In Which You Learn Things Like That John...
I’m not much on absolute favorites. I’m much more a “Top 5″ or “Top 10″ kind of guy — the sort who always qualifies his appreciation of things, inserting “one of” into anything I’m glowing and crowing...
View ArticleI Made A Book
I took 120 or so of the 5,818 stills my camera captured during last Sunday’s CicLAvia and dove into Lulu.com to create a photo book that can tell the visual story of last Sunday’s CicLAvia. I’m not...
View ArticleCarré’d Away
John Le Carré is a writer I’m remiss to admit I’ve never read. I’ve seen film adaptations of his works such as “The Constant Gardener” and “The Russia House,” but I’ve never picked up one of his books....
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Darrow Was Here
Above is a shot taken yesterday from Broadway of the landmark Higgins Building on the southwest corner of Second and Main, looking east at its backside bathed beautifully Hopper-esque in the afternoon...
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Book ‘Em: Search Complete
When I discovered a book review last week about “The Searchers: The Making of An American Legend” by Glenn Frankel, I was already ordering it before I read whether the reviewer thought it was good or...
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Finally Found: A Photo Of Hunter’s Books
Until yesterday, when this image rather randomly popped up on my Facebook feed from a group I follow, I’d made countless unsuccessful attempts to find any photographs of a place I worked during my...
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