Ten Best L.A. Movies

Here's my current list of the ten best L.A. movies:

1. Annie Hall
2. Big Lebowski
3. Blade Runner
4. Chinatown
5. Decline and Fall of Western Civilization
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
7. Heat
8. Jackie Brown
9. Slums of Beverly Hills
10. Sunset Boulevard

Touch of Evil Filming Location?

I think this might be the location of the final shoot-out in Touch of Evil. But I'm not sure. If this isn't it, it was somewhere very near here (i.e., in some other part of the original Marina del Ray canal).

White on Blue

Sleeping Moses

Summertime Haircut

Moses the Monkey Dog

Favorite Spaces: National Building Museum Atrium (Washington DC)

I love sitting by that fountain.

Pupatella Food Cart (with a Pizza Upskirt Photo)

My Mom read an article about this supercute food cart in Ballston in yesterday's Washington Post, so we went and had lunch there. The pizza was pretty good: I'd go back. (The crust was nice, the sauce a little bland.) This is especially impressive considering it was cooked in some sort of portable oven.

The high point of our trip wasn't the food, however. When we finally sat down to eat, my Mom said she recognized the folks behind her in line, that they were the parents of an early elementary school friend of mine. So I went up to them and, sure enough, my Mom was right. It turns out my friend is now divorced with two kids.

Cassettes

I'm currently getting rid of a ton of old cassettes. It's hard to say goodbye to them.