Not much to report. So posting a few views of daily life on Sunset Strip.
K in L.A.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
A Few More Pics from the Trenches: Farmer's Market, Gym, Grocery Store
Friday, June 1, 2012
My House in L.A. Well, not mine, but where I live for the moment.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Andy Cohen and the Ducklings
MAY 16, 2012
So we’re at Barnes and Noble at The Grove – this upscale
Disney-world-esque shopping village – to see Andy Cohen. His book’s sold out. S
can’t get one. We’re late and a sea of people are ahead of us. S pushes through
and finds a guard. “Tell Andy [S] is here.” Some lady takes us to a room down
the hall behind the bathroom. A line of people parts and there’s Andy, all
smiles. “Fantastic to see you [S]!” She’s introduced to his mother and father,
perched nearby. I am too. I wave, silently. “Okay, I’m on. Follow me. ” The star weaves
past a giggly pug-cheeked Asian baby in a stroller, squats down and flashes a
picture of himself with her with cell phone. “So cute.” He says. He takes one of him and S. She’s beaming. He’s
beaming. Like ducklings, we follow the star. The crowd parts. It’s roaring. Screaming,
clapping. “Andy! Andy!”
I don’t even know who this guy is.
Windey Road and Johnny Mathis
MAY 15, 2012
You can't walk
down the mountain to the main drag - Sunset Boulevard - because the road is
narrow and windey, and people FLY around the curves. Day before yesterday I was
coming home from yoga and two black Mercedes had crashed nearly head-on into
each other. Both drivers were walking around dazed. One was crying. Everybody had their cell phone out, though,
so I moved on up the mountain. Slowly.
Tomorrow I’m
going to walk up the hill on the other side of the street, where I’ve seen the
guy upstairs walk his dog. “What’s up
there?” I asked him today. “Nothing, it’s just where [his glorious Great Dane]
goes to pee. Johnny Mathis lives up
there.” Oh, how old is he now? Like 100? I ask. “No, he’s in his 70s. He drives
a red Mercedes.”
Cultural Creatives and CineWomen
MAY 10, 2012
The cultural
creatives have their own breed of innovation here in L.A.
Today I’m watching this guy on UCTV (theUniversity of California
station) who looks like Tiny Tim, but with way longer curly hair and red metal
eyeglasses. Turns out he's a Music PhD who invented the Performance Florist. So now we’re watching the La Joya symphony
orchestra - all serious and sometimes chaotic instrumentation - and a tuxedo'd
florist furiously cutting and arranging flowers around the perimeter; on a
table by the conductor, on a spotlighted ladder unfurling white silk and
sparkly lights down its legs, poking all kinds of flora into place until it all
ends in a crescendo of activity and ultimately - unusual beauty. It's
funny at moments. They get a standing ovation.
Watch for Performance Floristry coming to your neighborhood soon.
Yesterday we attended a CineWomen meeting in aSanta Monica apartment filled with intellectual liberal (oh
joy!) women, accomplished documentarists. The director featured is in the
distribution stage of WE ARE WISCONSIN, a goose-bump-raising film about that
new governor who literally in the middle of the night, held a secret vote and
dumped all the unions, and the way people stormed the capital as they
found out - in the middle of the night. What Aime caught on film was not what
she went there expecting. (The governor's recall vote is on June 6th.)
Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP0jM4P5bmg .
Tonight's my first yoga class at Equinox, down the street. The studio is beautiful, especially during the candle light yoga class. The shampoo, conditioner, soap and lotion is all Kiehl's.
Today I’m watching this guy on UCTV (the
Watch for Performance Floristry coming to your neighborhood soon.
Yesterday we attended a CineWomen meeting in a
Tonight's my first yoga class at Equinox, down the street. The studio is beautiful, especially during the candle light yoga class. The shampoo, conditioner, soap and lotion is all Kiehl's.
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