Dispatches from the City of Angels
I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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Journal Entries for 2005
02: The Shuttle to Hell (4 comments)
08: I don't know about hell, but L.A. is freezing over (3 comments)
13: Author free to good home (0 comments)
16: Run, Forest, Run (4 comments)
18: Funny, Forest, Funny (4 comments)
21: And then God laughed (or my 50K run through the desert) (7 comments)
29: Can somebody please brush my teeth? (3 comments)
30: Because it is important to learn something every day... (4 comments)
February
01: Oh, you know you want to... (0 comments)
04: Judy Blume is My Hero (1 comments)
05: Windows Vista, a love letter in haiku (3 comments)
09: I'm not getting the flea dip... (2 comments)
11: Caffeinators Anonymous (3 comments)
13: Breaking out the hedge trimmer (2 comments)
14: How English chef Jamie Oliver ruined my Valentine's Day (subtitled: The British Can Suck It) (5 comments)
19: Junk Drawer (4 comments)
26: Say it ain't so, Georgie (9 comments)
March
04: I totally stole this blog post (6 comments)
10: Wait, we had a meeting about this right? (5 comments)
12: Not another Spitzer post! (2 comments)
17: I did promise you porn stars... (6 comments)
20: L.A.'s finest auto body shops: A tour (4 comments)
24: If anyone asks, I had seared ahi tuna and something involving micro-greens, got it? (5 comments)
27: Is that celery in your pants or are you just happy to see me? (3 comments)
31: God Smiled (3 comments)
April
04: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hanging tough!" (3 comments)
07: Dear Victoria's Secret (0 comments)
08: 100 Things (2 comments)
09: File it under "stuff I am so using in a book" (1 comments)
14: A stranger just peed on my leg (No, I am absolutely not kidding) (8 comments)
20: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (4 comments)
23: Do not try this at home. (6 comments)
28: I'm never going to run out of material... (5 comments)
May
01: Sure to be a regular feature! Personal ads: A review (2 comments)
02: I (heart) taco trucks (9 comments)
06: Excuse me while I go punch something... (4 comments)
07: The one about me getting naked (5 comments)
13: Personal Ads: a review, volume 2 (3 comments)
16: Do as I say, not as I do (3 comments)
19: Hey, it's a famous guy! (12 comments)
22: A little help over here! (3 comments)
26: Talk dirty to me, Rick Steves (3 comments)
June
02: Pain and Transcendence: A race in pictures (1 comments)
03: He is the German shepherd to my Chihuahua (3 comments)
08: Lost in Translation (3 comments)
12: "Why God Me?" or "Reason number 247 why I will someday own a house" (3 comments)
13: Shadow of the Giants 50K: Race Report (3 comments)
17: Only in L.A. will famous people be forced to ponder your lady bits (2 comments)
22: Up in 'Frisco (2 comments)
25: Two. Nine. (aka "happy birthday to me") (8 comments)
28: Netflix-ies (3 comments)
30: 911. What is your emergency? (6 comments)
July
04: All the licking is causing a bald patch (3 comments)
05: I might be taking back that "no tattoo" thing... (4 comments)
08: Because I no longer find it necessary to exist outside the internet... (1 comments)
11: Run like a girl (3 comments)
14: Forget the monologues (1 comments)
18: Really it was my own fault (2 comments)
22: I have no control. I just like to pretend. (6 comments)
26: Close encounters with the wildlife (4 comments)
30: 2008 Olympics: Just when you thought it couldn't get worse (4 comments)
August
04: You know your husband is a metrosexual when... (8 comments)
06: Back in the BBQ saddle again (5 comments)
10: I (heart) Paris Hilton (4 comments)
13: Spicy Pork or Bust (4 comments)
18: Donald Rumsfeld and I, a common cause (2 comments)
20: Dim Su-tah (4 comments)
26: My feet are down there (4 comments)
30: More Rob Estes, because I know what you want (4 comments)
September
03: The sofa that ate Manhattan (3 comments)
06: I'm actually only a little scary (3 comments)
07: Going Dark (2 comments)
25: J'adore Paris (4 comments)
29: The land of chips and gray meat (1 comments)
October
01: Ban Me, Baby (2 comments)
07: A midnight call in Paris (4 comments)
11: Reason #793 Why I Love L.A.: Breakfast at Philippe's (8 comments)
14: Paris, in photos (1 comments)
16: MySpace Shame Spiral (8 comments)
16: Paris, York, Bath and Edinburgh, in photos (0 comments)
23: Best-est Quote Ever (3 comments)
28: My First Civil Disobedience (3 comments)
29: London Part 1, Edinburgh, Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands, in pictures (0 comments)
30: Deflated (1 comments)
November
02: Reason #493 Why I Love L.A.: Dia de los Meurtos (2 comments)
06: We're here, we're young and we're voting (2 comments)
07: Introducing New Features! (8 comments)
08: Emily-in-the-8th-grade (0 comments)
08: Subscriber Troubles? (9 comments)
10: Chocolate-coated Sea Monkeys (5 comments)
12: Hanging up your stockings (5 comments)
15: Cold Front (or what passes for one in L.A.) (2 comments)
22: Foot to dirt (3 comments)
26: I say it was Edward Norton (5 comments)
30: Recipe for Post-Thanksgiving Meal (1 comments)
December
08: I'm officially hanging with celebrities (2 comments)
10: I'm sorry. I'm calling in gay. (1 comments)
11: 100,000 served (3 comments)
15: It's all in the marketing... (4 comments)
17: Wanna hear something gross? (3 comments)
19: Please excuse our dust (2 comments)
23: Proof the world is shrinking (1 comments)
25: The Waffle Battle (1 comments)
30: Fear the kimchi quesadilla (4 comments)
