Category: AIA Archive

The weather here has been remarkably mild for summer (though still quite muggy). I’ve been doing more freelance work at i-traffic again. Next week G and I head back to Hawaii for a few days (her friend’s wedding), then off to Boston to attend MacWorld. Sometimes having not being tied down to a full-time job…

The summer’s well underway here. G and I got to see a free concert by Los Lobos at Prospect Park the other night. G saw her first firefly. This weekend, our friend Ev invited to a lake house, owned by the family of an old high-school friend of hers. Us guys in the group spent…

Reagan and Ray Charles pass away, and J-Lo gets married…it’s the circle of life in a twisted way. I grew up with Reagan as president and my political views have changed radically despite an overly liberal L.A. public-school education. And while I have new found respect for the 40th president, I thought the funerary ceremonies…

G and I went to LA last week for the Golden Trailer Awards, hosted by Tom Green this year. I’ve never been that huge of a fan of his, but I was delightfully surprised–he was really, really good host. Probably the best show so far. I briefly got a chance to talk to him after…

Giselle and I are headed out to LA tomorrow for the Golden Trailer awards next Tuesday. I’ve been super busy this week working on the show program book, pulling late night and an all nighter to get it out at 6am on Tuesday morning. I can only imagine how much more slammed and hectic life…

This week we had visits from two totally unrelated friends. Our friend Ling stayed overnight on her way back to Hawaii from a Zen retreat in upstate New York. On the same day she left, Kanako, G’s friend from college, flew in from Tokyo. NEC had flown her and her boss out to receive a…

Our friend Ling, a marine biologist from Hawaii, was in town this weekend and we took her to see a new Broadway play, “Jumpers” which can best be described as a philosophy lecture wrapped in a comedy, dressed as a murder mystery. It’s a new play from London and it was quite entertaining. We also…