Books I read and celebrities I saw
The Power Broker had for so long been a white whale, a book I wanted to read, had to read, but was afraid to start. A reader my entire life, I don’t think I had ever read a book longer than 1,000 pages. I know you are supposed to drop books that you don’t enjoy […]
Max Burkholder is best known, at least in our household, as Max Braverman on Parenthood, the autistic child. We saw him as we were walking on the sidewalk into the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s on a Sunday morning. He was across the street on the Gelson’s sidewalk. The hair is the giveaway. Ed Helms was seen at a […]
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Michael Keaton. Two early evenings in a row in early April while driving back from daycare, my wife saw Michael Keaton filming something in East Hollywood on Fountain in an art gallery near the Church of Scientology. By the time I was able to be part of the evening ride, he and the film crew […]
The links to the following books are to my affiliate page at Bookshop.org. Buying from this post therefore supports independent bookstores across the country and a government employee in Los Angeles. Grade: B+ Grade: A Grade: C+ Grade: A- Grade: A- Grade: B Grade: B+ Grade: A+ Grade: B. Grade: B-. Grade: B- Grade: B […]
Incredibly, the first entry on this list was not seen until September 2022. The infrequent sightings are due to Covid caution at the beginning of the year and then having a newborn in early June. Fortunately, on one of our first meal outings – a brunch place in Larchmont Village with another couple with an […]
1. Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You’re Not Drinking for Whatever Reason by Julia Bainbridge. This 167 page recipe book was a gift from my mom after a stray remark about trying out non-alcohol mixed drinks. After a brief exploration of cocktails in the summer of 2020 and dismay over the amount of work […]
226: “If they had survived […] assuming they were lucky, assuming they were very lucky. Shea had, for the first time, glimpsed the war. Minds change in glimpses.” My mind changes in sentences. 251: “They wore helmets. They carried rifles. They carried bayonets. They carried tear gas.” Um, I think this was a reference to […]
I did not start writing this post until April because of Covid. Covid means much less being outside, so many fewer opportunities to see people. Mei Lin. We finally were able to order the Szechuan fried chicken from Daybird, Mei Lin’s casual new place. This is the Mei Lin of Top Chef who then opened […]
The fourth time is the charm, by which I mean I hope I see more celebrities than last year because the third time certainly was not the charm. Jade Chang. Jade Chang is the author of one of the favorite novels I read in 2018, Wangs vs. the World. Even better, I actually met her […]
