los angeles | los angeles
May.16.2013
A Nova program last night on PBS questioned if humans and Neanderthals might have ever mated in Europe, oh, some 40,000 years ago. Several anthropologists said it was doubtful. I said, to the television screen, ``Are you kidding?'' Sex is powerful, and someone having a different shaped brow is not...
|
Dec.13.2012
First morning of some small freedom. Math 311 ended on Monday, with a giant oozing dribble of a test that left me hurting for days. Maybe it was the pressure of doing too much this semester. I am prone to taking on too many responsibilities, always with the sense that I am not doing enough....
|
Oct.05.2012
By far the best movie theatre of my youth was the Cooper Theatre near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an orange circular building with a Cinerama screen. Seating was by reservation, and programs came as hardback books. The films were major events and would play for many months.
My grandmother loved...
|
Sep.03.2012
My recurring fantasy about libraries is that at night, after everyone goes home, , the books come to life and mingle in a fabulous cocktail party. — Neal Wyatt
A perfect Saturday: a trip downtown to the vast and gorgeous Los Angeles Central Library to do book-related research. Before leaving,...
|
Aug.13.2012
On October 9, 2012 at Largo at the Coronet in LA we'll be filming the first-ever LDM TV pilot, as part of a star-studded double feature (Dexter's Michael C. Hall, the musician Moby, best-selling author Susan Orlean, and comedian/Marcel the Shell creator Jenny Slate are all on board...
|
Jul.25.2012
This was our last day in the Civic Center Holiday Inn.
We began to wind up our affairs here, and prepare for our move to the Granada Hotel.
Phone calls to the Red Cross and Elder Services about Son Guy's discoveries at the Granda were not successful. And...
|
Apr.05.2012
Why would a university host a writers conference? One reason is to share the amazing resources available in a large research library. Check the acknowledgements at the end of any book and count the number of librarians who have contributed to the success of our most prominent writers.
It doesn't...
|
Mar.28.2012
Join us for a full day of conversations and workshops beginning with a keynote address by Ivory Madison, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of redroom.com. To register go to http://www.usc.edu/esvp and enter code: uscwc . There are a limited number of USC student scholarships available. Please contact...
|
|
Mar.11.2012
One of my favorite past times is to observe the people and cultural trends around me. I couldn’t say for certain that they are all that different from trends around the rest of the U.S., but we have a certain type of personality that Los Angeles creates and draws to her.
As a vivacious person with...
|
Feb.18.2012
In the Introduction of Son of Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History, Gary Lycan, the newspaper columnist, and my co-host of our radio show that airs on The Spa Radio Network each Saturday at 3p (pst), references the late Ralph Story’s two 1990′s documentaries...
|