Cloudy skies
Yesterday running from downtown to Ben Greenman’s reading at Book Soup, I stopped for gas. This is not especially interesting, except that it allows me to write “yesterday” in a…
Category Archives: LA
The view from above
That’s the view from the Soho House in Los Angeles, with downtown LA off to the southeast. I talked to James Ellroy there yesterday afternoon for a lovely book club…
Louis Menand, usually so good, trips up on LA & noir
Is it a New York thing? Menand has reviewed Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice” for “The New Yorker,” and I think he’s generally got a handle on it — although I…
Festival, schmestival. Don’t miss Vroman’s on Tuesday
I love me some LA times festival of books. I’ve been soaking in it all day, and I think the panels will be great, the stages, the crazy big campus,…
Anybody seen a sweater?
On Friday, I was parked for 3 hours in a neighborhood full of wee million-dollar bungalows, surrounded by cars worth a lot more than my 9 year-old Toyota. Why, then,…
Noncrediting bozo steals photo. Mine.
That’s the picture. It can be found here, on Jacket Copy. It can also be found here, on the bozo’s website. Click to see the bozo’s version big, which shows…
Oh noes! The bright spot on the LA radio dial just went dark.
Was it just this morning that I was listening to Indie 103.1 on the radio in the car while driving to work? I could have sworn it was. I heard…
Dear LA City Council: cutting libraries is terribly wrong
With all of California facing a budget crunch, the city of LA is facing difficult cutbacks. The first round of funding cuts has been proposed — recommended by the city’s…
Your bullshit is not welcome here
Maybe you heard about the homeless man who was burned to death in Los Angeles last week. According to witnesses, a Honda Civic stopped; some teens or 20-somethings jumped out…
Put that away!
Author Jonathan Evison (All About Lulu) is in town, or should I say the whirlwind tour that is Jonathan Evison. There will be a video interview with him on Jacket…
