I stopped at Trader Joe’s tonight. I hadn’t been to this one in a few months; it’s closer to me, but there’s another on the way home from work that I’ve been favoring of late. You know, that whole “combining errands” thing people always talk about.
Apparently, at some point in the past few months, they re-designed the place. It was weird.
Posted in Life In LA, Random Thoughts
It’s been strange, the last couple of days.
The blogs I read. The movies I’ve been seeing. The people I’ve talked to.
Strange because I find I don’t have any connection to the experiences I’m reading/watching/listening to.
Posted in Random Thoughts
I went out tonight, pretty much on a spur-of-the-moment whim, to see “UP” tonight. Needless to say that I enjoyed it, given the time and effort that Pixar clearly puts into each film they make. Seeing it in 3-d was a nice touch, though the film works just as well without the added “gimmick”, if you will.
Prior to the film, they showed a couple of previews for other animated films (all in 3-d, natch). Perhaps I should add, all computer animated films. Some looked good, some merely passable. I think, for all of Pixar’s success, they’ve created a problem: the belief in format over story.
It seems that all the studios have come to the belief that if the film is computer animated, it will be a success. Traditional animation, apparently, spells doom.
Posted in Friday Sillyness, Movies, Stuff I Like
Looking out the windows this morning, I noticed the gray sky growing darker.
“June Gloom is bad enough,” I thought, “Does it have to get even darker? So not fair.”
Then at one point, there was a flash in the office. Not bright, sort of like a distant flash-bulb.
Posted in Life In LA, Random Thoughts
We live, it seems, in a world growing ever more health-conscious.
Everywhere I go, more vegetarians and vegans I meet. More people who are shopping at Whole Foods and their local farmer’s markets. More people examining the labels on whatever they pick up at the grocery store.
Posted in Random Thoughts
(I may be repeating myself here, I really don’t remember. Locals may want to skip this post, as they are already very familiar with the phenomenon…)
Here it comes again. May gray. June gloom. Ugh.
Or, as I prefer to think of it, a little bit of hell thrown into daily living by the universe.
Posted in Life In LA, Random Thoughts
Given my propensity to over-think, well, just about everything, it’s not often that I make spur-of-the-moment decisions.
But sometimes it happens.
Posted in Women
(Another rambling BlackBerry post that I’m just putting up tonight. Maybe it’s because I work with computers all week, but I never seem to pull out the machine to do posts on the weekend…)
I’d come up to the Angeles today with the intention of hiking. Instead, I find myself sitting near a roadside pullout, writing this and happy as a clam about it.
Why the change of plans? A couple of reasons:
Posted in Hiking, Random Thoughts, Travel, Writing
I will simply post this link.
https://secure.realchocolate.com/
I know. I’m amazing.
Limit is 250,000 per day. Better get going.
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