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A Sunday Night Wake-Up

May

17

2009

That was definitely the most intense earthquake I’ve felt – a 5.0 in Inglewood, lasting quite a bit longer than the last few little wobbles we’ve had. It lasted juuuust long enough for me to be worried it was the beginning of a larger quake. People closer to the epicenter had stuff knocked off their ...

24 Plays With D.C.’s Time-Traffic Continuum

Mar

30

2009

There’s an amusing article up at the Washington Post, wherein the author points out all the hilariously inaccurate and wholly fabricated locations that 24 has used during its first season set in my ridiculous hometown of Washington D.C. The traditional, “In what universe can you get from the White House to Foxhall Road in five ...

What Do We Want? Repetitive Chants! Equal Rights! When Do We Want Them? NOW! 2

Nov

15

2008

Sarcasm briefly aside, it was really nice to see the huge turnout (estimated by the cops at 12k, but really, looking at this picture, I think it’s a lot closer to their original estimate of 40k) at the big pro-gay-rights rally today, and some of the speakers were really great. The head of the local ...

Oh, L.A.

Oct

29

2008

A fun Los Angeles moment this evening (or this morning, really, since this was when I was coming home at 12:30AM): Speeding down La Brea towards the 10, I came up behind a new-looking sliver Porsche Carerra. The CA plate: 0 IQ. Sadly, it was just some typical douchebag driving it and not a hot ...

A Week Late… 2

Oct

11

2008

A few of my better photos from my ridiculously good seats watching the poor old Cubbies lose to the Dodgers a week ago: Thanks to my friend Matty Lew, who generously subsidized my ticket, and blatantly lied to me about the extent to which he was doing so because he knew I would have been ...

California Says, “Welcome Home!”

Jul

29

2008

Yep, I felt that.

Well, THAT Was Fun

May

9

2008

Normally it takes me 45 minutes to get from Santa Monica to Santa Clarita. Today, it took me 1 hour, 35 minutes. 15 minutes spent just getting ON the 405 freeway to go north, because for no apparent reason, the 10E-405N interchange was ridiculously backed up. Then after I finally broke free of that, I ...

Continued Adventures With Celebrities and Fast Food 1

Mar

16

2008

A few years ago, Martin Landau drove past me at the In-N-Out burger. Tonight, it was Cameron Diaz at the Roller Derby enjoying a Hot Dog on a Stick (they bring their catering truck to the games and make a mint off the hungry hungry hipsters). I have to admit, it was a bit strange. ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Feb

12

2008

Saturday I went to the Golden Dragon parade celebrating Chinese New Year with some friends, and my pictures are up. I’m really happy with how these came out, since this is the first time I went shooting with my giant (70-300mm) lens and did manual focus the entire time. I will say, this is the ...

Wow, There ARE Mountains Here! 2

Jan

27

2008

I was driving to meet a friend for brunch yesterday and saw a very unusual and rather breathtaking sight: The mountains behind Los Angeles, covered in snow, clear as a bell. Here’s an awesome picture of, basically, what I saw, (with a hat tip to LAist for pointing it out). Looks like that was taken ...