tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687974284689233892024-03-13T23:58:33.618-07:00NO SAINTS IN L.A.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-4952309208390902142009-08-04T09:49:00.000-07:002009-08-04T10:01:33.689-07:00Aw, You Read Me. Heart.To the handful of readers who continue to keep up with my work and writing here at NSILA, a big Thank You!! I continue this blog through wordpress, and recommend you keep reading there - more photos and narrative await you - www.nosaintsinla.wordpress.com.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-31135268143205707672009-05-14T20:56:00.000-07:002009-05-14T20:57:44.649-07:00WordPressI decided to switch to Wordpress, but I'm having trouble deciding. So, readers (all three of you), let me know if you like the new format, found here:NO SAINTS IN L.A.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-35415810222362876902009-05-13T08:33:00.000-07:002009-05-13T09:21:01.279-07:00Trader Joe'sA late night run for two-buck Chuck finally got me to Trader Joe's new location off Sunset. Three parking garage floors down is the entry way to the store. I expected cheap grocery store goods, not a rehash of Rock n' Roll motifs. However, this store's novel location may have called for a new spin on things. First, the elevator from the parking garage...The walls of Trader Joe'sThis is unusualT IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-11153583326590835952009-05-12T09:00:00.000-07:002009-05-13T17:55:26.669-07:00AnonymousToday is a sad day for the antipathetic group Anonymous, who in 2008, chose to attack Scientology and its followers through an onslaught focused on their communications, exacting the shut down of their website and a flood of black faxes to their headquarters. Dmitriy Guzner, age 19, was charged with unauthorized impairment of a protected computer and faces 12 to 18 months. There's no word on howT IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-14993064158568658662009-05-12T08:46:00.000-07:002009-05-12T08:46:40.049-07:00Fly Away HomeThe Little Things My Days were spent under a less sunny canopy Almost... Denver Museum of Nature & Science: An important part of a Coloradoan's childhood Indigenous CrystalDenver! Music plays at their feet See the rain?! Like California, this can be a rare treatFinal Twilight Drive Last Stop! 8pmT IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-18396900145593848412009-05-01T11:28:00.001-07:002009-05-10T14:17:32.743-07:00HomeI went home. Home is Boulder, Colorado. About four years ago I left this place for Miami, then Miami for Los Angeles, and homesickness has plagued me the entire time. The bond I've felt with home did not materialize this time around. I didn't feel completely satisfied touching the ground and I don't want to stay. I might not love Los Angeles, but I don't hate it either - something I've heard T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-43605693986776632612009-04-21T07:00:00.000-07:002009-04-27T21:37:27.908-07:00Smash LabsSmash Labs is located at 1714 Albion street, a very isolated strip of industrial downtown Los Angeles. Tonight I'm here to check out several garage bands and a make-shift artist's gallery. Think your loser boyfriend's fledging rock band - corner table stocked with vodka, beer and wine with amateur bartender shuffling $2 dollar drinks and a crowd touting conspiracy theories, chief among them T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-89560884465361722352009-04-16T07:00:00.000-07:002009-04-27T21:41:43.849-07:00Home Depot...Look It UpYou know what else you can find at Home Depot?Day laborers. A phenomenon I hadn't encountered until I moved here.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-62359556066158482482009-04-15T14:00:00.000-07:002009-04-15T14:00:09.106-07:00Pooch CruiseThere must be a skating dog in every city across America. Well, here's ours.....3rd St., Santa Monica.p.s. That is not my giggle in the background.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-16331039822504940072009-04-15T07:00:00.000-07:002009-04-27T21:40:35.272-07:00On The EquatorBack in Santa Monica...we visit the Equator Bookstore off of Abbot Kinney Boulevard. If there was a street you'd describe as 'tucked away' this would be it. A small strip of boutiques, with nary a Starbucks in sight, a childrens international school nearby and enough beach town vibe to want to make you hop on a bike in a bikini. Here's where I meet for a book swap. What's important about T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-75139606156905774592009-04-13T07:00:00.000-07:002009-04-13T07:00:09.655-07:00Rick Owens Slaps L.A.L.A. is great at making sitcoms. So L.A. fashion week is really just another turn on The Hills.Thank you Mr. Rick Owens Though he used to be based in LA, he finds designers there "arrogant and demanding."LA is great at making sitcoms. Paris isn't as good as LA is at making sitcoms; every place has their specialty. And then they do LA Fashion Week, which is incredibly arrogant and demanding. I T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-1540725255729834972009-03-31T22:20:00.000-07:002009-04-11T21:42:41.185-07:00A Slow News WeekT IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-6746608167522259162009-03-25T07:00:00.000-07:002009-03-25T07:00:42.607-07:00Cats On NewspapersNo one ever comes to L.A. and thinks that the Subway is a choice for public transportation. However, with plans for expansion in the years to come, it's becoming a more viable option. Alas, the L.A. Metro does not stop at all cities, such as Santa Monica, but it can get you downtown and to the airport. For my purposes, it's an easy $1.50 novelty ride from Hollywood to Little Tokyo. Just T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-63471260530023840442009-03-24T07:00:00.000-07:002009-03-24T07:00:33.797-07:00Arrow This WayIf you see this sort of sign around L.A., follow it to a catered lunch. Because this particular sign points you in the direction of a film set in town. The actors, the trailers, the movable toilets, the trays of munchies. It'll be there. T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-40925842259342876232009-03-23T18:55:00.001-07:002009-03-23T21:59:46.535-07:00Fool Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore My review rating: 3 of 5 starsChristopher Moore admits that he has been accused of awkward prose, and I am one in a long line of finger pointers. There is no mistaking his singular diction, a style I liken to tripping over pebbles. The errors are not huge, but the verbage a little ungainly. In Moore's new book Fool, his bubbly delivery is entertaining. This T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-87298857390518290912009-03-17T21:20:00.001-07:002009-03-17T21:37:27.806-07:00WATCHMENBack at the Arclight for an evening movie...I am always amazed at how small actors really are. They look statuesque on the screen, their costumes so perfectly matched to their form. For a movie like Watchmen, they appear godlike - each wrinkle ironed out, freely moving in latex and hard plastic. But these forms were human, Silk Spectre quite petite.These costumes felt as they looked. Hardly T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-91645664446972374502009-03-16T18:45:00.000-07:002009-03-16T19:33:25.961-07:00Free ArtArts Day LA...a day of free seminars facilitated by successful professionals in several different fields, many of whom currently teach classes at UCLA. There are four seminars for each subject - Creative Writing, Design Communication Arts (Graphic Design), Film, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture - spanning instruction on inspiration, tools and finally your life and career. Although at T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-14622453142539356032009-03-06T07:29:00.000-08:002009-03-06T07:29:00.879-08:00DITASupergraphic Me!T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-90094509491672833772009-03-03T21:56:00.001-08:002009-03-04T18:21:33.285-08:00A Lilting ScentFor a Californian, seasons are a trivial and uneventful occurrence. Fall doesn't come with falling yellow leaves, and winter doesn't arrive in snowstorms - there's simply a subtle change in temperature. Only cooler nights indicate that winter is ascending, but the days remain sunny and snowy peaks appear in the North (snowboarding is only a few hours away!). Since California's weather is T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-73549906255136284772009-03-01T15:14:00.001-08:002009-03-01T19:45:13.895-08:00"Barbie Wishes She Were Me"How some serious advertising and a love of pink can make you a Hollywood icon...This...Is...Angelyne.As the election for a seat on the 5th District Council heat up, candidates are promising a crack down on supergraphics and billboards that now populate an area that encompasses West Hollywood to Beverly Hills - premium advertising space. However, there's one billboard that hasn't disappeared fromT IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-1624133573187929562009-02-24T19:33:00.000-08:002009-02-26T18:17:55.833-08:00Perfectly PinkA breezy day of cool sun comes to an end in pink puffs.T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-28914640260638566212009-02-21T07:00:00.000-08:002009-02-25T21:47:18.819-08:00Celestial NightsIt goes without saying that the Griffith Observatory was inspired by the stars. It's purveyors believed that a close look at the world around us was enlightening and profoundly affected the viewer. The Observatory grounds were envisioned to be a place where the public could access the engimatic mysteries of the universe in a relaxed, fine atmosphere. When Griffith J. Griffith came along, it was T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-77485888180605060202009-02-19T08:14:00.000-08:002009-02-19T14:21:24.349-08:00Little Gold Men..........It's Oscarmania!Oscar is quietly pitching his tents and constructing bleachers during this cold L.A. week. The red carpet has gone up, tourists are gawking and Hollywood Boulevard has been shut down. This weekend, we'll get to watch the actors and actresses we both love and hate walk down the red aisle to our chagrin or ecstasy. This is what it looks like:On the way home...(Memento Mori)T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-15663534738221017052009-02-16T09:00:00.000-08:002009-02-16T21:42:37.020-08:00FrancophiliaHello everyone, I am a Francophile.What started as an introduction to language class in Middle School burgeoned into a lifelong obsession with the French, their language and a thirst for a European dream. L.A. is just a stop-over. En route, I'm submerging myself in authentic French flavor. This is why I've ended up at Monsieur Marcel. This tiny grocery store sits within the historic Farmer's T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-868797428468923389.post-58897230819311215042009-02-10T18:01:00.000-08:002009-02-15T15:56:04.529-08:00Within The VicinityPay attention to your neighbors.I once took a six-week fencing class at the Los Angeles Community College. On the last day of class, I discovered that I had been dueling with very talented and successful writers, one producer and several amateur artists. One woman had come to L.A., after a stint writing for a succesful Canadian sitcom. This the great thing about L.A., the company you unknowingly T IN LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622255543542673665noreply@blogger.com0