Last weekend I attended the LA Times Festival of Books at USC. It was a nerd’s dream come true. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend many of the writer’s workshops scheduled that day, but I had fun checking out all the different vendors. I saw all kinds. Seriously. There were also a lot of people [...]

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Posted: May 7th 2011

I have officially lived in Los Angeles for a year now and  today was sadly my first time going to the Santa Monica pier. Embarrassing, I know. Today was a particularly gloomy day in Santa Monica, but it was still fun. The short walk to the pier actually reminded me of Waikiki. Maybe walking with [...]

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Posted: April 17th 2011

I’m beginning to realize there are quite a few perks to living in LA. For example, Disneyland is now within driving distance. I went there once as a kid, back when the Indiana Jones ride had just opened, and I didn’t go back until moving here. I don’t care what anyone says, that place is [...]

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Posted: April 9th 2011

I learned two things this Halloween: 1) make sure to bring my external flash to properly shoot in WeHo  and 2) be prepared to deal with the repercussions of dressing up  my cat in a halloween costume. I thought the area was going to be better lit (and way more crowded), so I left my [...]

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Posted: November 7th 2010

I had been told by numerous people that  Dia de los Muertos at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the things to do Halloween weekend in LA.  Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect. I was vaguely familiar with the Day of the Dead culture and history, but actually experiencing it felt much different [...]

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Posted: November 2nd 2010