Many years ago I wrote this stupid list outlining when it's acceptable for a grown man to cry. I think the instances included the death of a family member/close friend, the retirement announcement of a beloved sports hero, and the moment in the theater when the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …" give way to the symphonic explosion ( Read more... )

It's crazy how fast the world moves nowadays. The iPhone 3G came out in 2008 or thereabout-it's the first iPhone I remember everyone around me started using-but it seems like a lifetime ago. I can clearly remember Doug, his wife and I waiting for a table at a Korean BBQ restaurant in the Inner Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, and Doug was ( Read more... )

As recently as five years ago we'd go to Blockbuster when we wanted to rent a movie. (To my knowledge the El Camino location in Santa Clara was one of the last Bay Area Blockbusters to go; it has since probably become a new addition to the four Starbuckses built preposterously close to one another on the strip of El Camino Real that runs through ( Read more... )

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This happened a while back: Rosa and I went to downtown L.A. to check out the new Tanner Goods store on Broadway (my idea) and Bottega Louie for macarons (her idea). Afterward she dragged me to Perch, a rooftop bar in an old art deco building a few blocks away. We got on the elevator with a middle-aged white guy, who was wrapping up a conversation ( Read more... )

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My current wireless contract is up next month so for the first time in a while I'm thinking of upgrading my mobile device. Tiny made the jump from iPhone to Android last year (Nexus 4) and keeps telling me I should do the same. Over the weekend I did a little research and was quickly overwhelmed by the choices, and this is AFTER I eliminated ( Read more... )

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As previously noted I started listening to Marc Maron's WTF podcast thanks to this Times article. Probably because he feels like he owes his present career to the medium, Maron appears on a lot of different podcasts, which is how I discovered Totally Laime. I've listened enough to this struggling husband and wife podcasting team that I feel weirdly ( Read more... )

I went to get my hair cut today and it turned out there'd been a scheduling mishap, forcing my hair cutting guy to cut short his lunch break so I wouldn't have to come back later. Diego (that's his name) also had to make his next appointment wait ten minutes while he finished up my monthly chop (those sideburns weren't going to even out themselves ( Read more... )