Well, it seems I’ve joined the ranks of homeowners.  As of today, I officially own the house you see above.  What do you know! The house is in the lovely neighborhood of Silver Lake and I really couldn’t be happier.  It’s a cute little 2 bedroom that was pitched as a ‘California cottage’.  I’ve got a basement, a nice back yard with a covered patio, and the attic is big enough to eventually turn into a bedroom.

So blog posts, if and when they occur, will now probably mostly be about my renovation projects.  There’s nothing huge that needs to be done to the house, but there’s plenty that I want to do!  First objective:  get the place in order for the housewarming party.  Because what’s the point of homeownership if not to have a swank party pad??

If you’re in LA feel free to drop by and see the place!

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I just got a new camera.  Expect more photo posts.

Don’t you love the time of year when Southern California turns purple?

After almost a month with no posts, I’ve realized that I clearly don’t have enough to say to post at least once a week. So while I certainly don’t intend on retiring the blog, the pace will be slower, at least in the mean time. With the daily grind that my job and life are right now, I simply don’t have much that’s worth blogging.

I do like to take pictures though – maybe I’ll start posting more pictures. Here’s one I took a while back at the Griffith Observatory. I quite like it:

And I do enjoy sharing links to fun stuff I stumble across, so here are a few for you to enjoy on this Friday afternoon:

How are your typing skills? On your mark, get set, GO!

There is, no joke, a gated community in China called Orange County. With Hummers in the driveways of McMansions. I really don’t even know how to process this information. Really, I don’t.

A friend sent me a someecard for my birthday. I now frequent the website. What better way to insult the people you love??

The superdelegates are, as of today, starting to flood to Obama. Keep track of the numbers here. Needless to say, I am exceedingly happy about the outcome of the primary election.

I’ve started to put my toe into the housing market. I’m thinking I’ll get serious about it next year. In the mean time I’ve started reading Curbed LA, a blog that bills itself as “The Los Angeles Neighborhood and Real Estate Blog”. It’s an entertaining, and educational, read.

And that’s it for today – have a nice weekend!

My goodness, it has been far too long, hasn’t it? Please forgive my lack of posts, I really don’t have much of an excuse.

BUT! Here I am, back in Los Angeles after 3 months on location with “The Day the Earth Stood Still” in Vancouver. All in all, Vancouver is a great town that I recommend anyone visit. Being away from home was a bit lonely, but I couldn’t have picked a nicer place to do it in.

I was especially excited to kick off my return to LA with a Dodger game at the Colliseum. As you can see in the photo above, there were more than a couple of people there. 115,000, to be exact. It was an exposition game celebrating the Dodgers 50th year in LA and they were playing my beloved Red Sox (who won) so I was happy.

Other than enjoying the beginning of baseball season, I’ve just been trying to get back into the groove of LA, especially the oh so delightful traffic. We’re cutting the movie on the Fox lot, so I’ve got one hell of a commute to deal with. But our offices aren’t half bad, and there’s sushi in the commissary on Thursdays. Yum.

A few links and so forth until I have a real reason to post:

•The Story of Stuff is worth watching, all 20 minutes of it. Nothing that I didn’t already know, but a fun and engaging way of talking about consumption.

•I’ve become a Scrabulous nut on Facebook. If you’re on there, friend request me and lets play!

•I haven’t made a Muxtape yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll happen in my not so distant future.  *Update*: okay, now I have.  Here’s my spot on Muxtape.

•I’m still obsessively following the election. I’m anxious for the primary to be over soon and for Obama to finally be able to buckle down and work on winning this whole thing. I’m getting my political fix in different places these days:

1. I never thought the day would come that I would agree with the majority of what Andrew Sullivan has to say, but apparently that day came and went a few months back. His blog is well worth reading.
2. I’m also found trolling the Huffington Post quite often.
3. Lastly, I’m glad to be back home so I can Tivo the Daily Show and see Jon Stewart’s take on things. The show runs in Vancouver, but I didn’t have Tivo so I never caught it. I’ve learned first hand what I always suspected: once you have a DVR, there’s no going back.

And that makes me sad. It won’t start up, so it’s in the shop getting fixed (what exactly IS a logic board?); hopefully I’ll have it back in a day or two. I’m writing this on the sly on my work computer.

Since my last post I’ve had two sets of visitors here in Vancouver. You can expect some pictures once my laptop is back up and running. My time here is winding down – only about 2 weeks left before I’m back in LA. And while I’ve enjoyed my time up here, I’m really looking forward to getting home and seeing everyone again.

More soon!

The sad mac graphic comes from this guy’s blog – it was the first hit on a google image search for “sad mac”.

Not so much with the posting these days; just haven’t had much to say. And I don’t have much to say now either, so I’ll just post a few links I’ve recently enjoyed.

Garfield without Garfield. Awesome.

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle. Now go waste time.

And check me out, I’m totally famous. Okay not really, but I don’t post much about my day to day work habits, so this will give you a vague insight. Avid is the software we use to edit on and this might be the only time I ever get quoted in any sort of article. Do I really talk like that?

How great was the Swell Season win at the Oscars? Soooo great, that’s how great. I thought I could post a YouTube clip, but it turns out that the powers that be have removed it. Boo.

And apropos of nothing, the one big note I have about Vancouver is this: the radio sucks. I mean really sucks. Like nothing ever, *ever* to listen to sucks. I’m wearing out the few CDs I thought to bring with me; send mixes.

Today is my blog’s 1st birthday. Here’s how it breaks down:

3913 hits.

77 posts.

86 comments.

237 spam comments.

Here’s to another great year, and oh yeah: OBAMA’08!

I’ve been getting a lot of traffic these days from people looking for information on Charlie Bartlett, the movie I worked on last year. It’s being released in theaters on Feb. 22nd after being postponed several months. And while a postponed movie sometimes means there were problems in editorial, that’s not the case with Charlie. There haven’t been any re-cuts; it’s exactly the same movie that was to hit theaters on August 3rd. In fact the prints were struck in time for the August release so it’s those very same prints that you’ll be seeing. The movie was postponed for one reason only: timing. SKE and MGM decided that the movie was going to get trounced at the box office if it was released in the summer. And considering that the latest Bourne movie came out on August 3rd and proceeded to made a cajillion dollars, it was a good call.

So go see Charlie Bartlett. It’s a great movie; funny, thoughtful and touching. Robert Downey Jr. and Hope Davis are both fantastic, and Anton Yelchin gives a performance that shows him to be a star in the making. I certainly hope you’ll all run out and see it opening weekend. It’s frustrating that opening weekend box office is so important these days, especially for movies like this that word of mouth will help, but it’s the reality of the situation. I’m sorry to not be in LA for the release – it would have been fun to get a whole group together to go. Ah well! Be sure to stick around and see my name in the credits – first assistant editor is what you’re looking for.