What I have been up to-working, fundraising and museums

Job is going well, I come home very tired, but am very happy although it seems like I am living to work instead of working to live.

I have spent my free time doing my part as a local philanthropist. I supported the local Planned Parenthood chapter in their 7th annual bingo for choice event. It was fantastic, funny and I felt better knowing that I helped low income women get pre-cancer screenings as well as additional health related information.

I saw the renoir exhibit before it closed. It was great and nice to see someone who really liked painting his wife.

I also saw some performance art, and found that I am just not cut out for it. I just want to laugh.

I have been reading Savage Detectives and I really can't think of a person I would like to recommend it to.

That is it in a nutshell.

Siting- Q and A

I forgot that I had the pleasure of seeing a new movie by writing by Scott Caan called Mercy. He did a Q and A after the film, so I guess I had a siting surprise.

food and memory

Cannes 2010 is already here I see that Paris is there again butchering her French and I am doing the thing that I failed to completely do last year and that is learn French.

I kind of would like a do over of that trip for the language and a couple more reasons.

I have been thinking about my trip to France a lot lately. So I tried to re-create my favorite meal at this little Moroccan place in a small town outside of Nice. The lure of the tagine has been calling me ever since that day, that and the Moroccan mint tea service.

Chicken with olives and preserved lemons. (pictured)

I looked around a bit and found a place called Tagine (Coincidentally co-partnered by Ryan Gosling) but their menu was down on their website and I had to have chicken with preserved lemons and olive. So I chose a restaurant in West Hollywood. Fabric covered the ceiling and walls, pillows line stools and floors and couches, mirrors, beaded curtains and everything I think would be in a restaurant in Casablanca, even though I have never been. This place in LA was much unlike the place in France, very over-stated.

The food was good, we were the only people their and we got a little too much attention from the owner, who told my roommate that he would sell his camels for her.

It is funny the way food can connect you to a place.

As long as we are talking family...

Here is a site you might enjoy this week. Some of the comments are a bit risque, but there are more funny ones than inappropriate ones.



Awkward family photos.

word to your moms

To the moms we love, to the moms we lost, Happy Mother's Day.

another alien landscape

California is not just the land of celebrities, traffic and loud feverish pitch. It is a land of alien landscapes.









PS this is why you need to make sure your crude oil stays in one place

foxy reading

Last weekend I headed to the LA Times Festival of Books. I had always wanted to go, but never had a willing participant until this year.

We bussed it on down to the UCLA campus to experience the festival in full force. (they said later that there were around 130, 000 people who attended. I think they were all there on Sunday with me) There were tents upon tents of vendors, publishers, food, bookstores. It was very overwhelming and in a good way. I never thought that many people in LA read.

I did get the chance to see Pam Grier talk about her new book called "Foxy: My Life in Three Acts" she seemed nervous.

Next time I go, I am going with a plan.

What are you reading? leave a comment or email me