Hajj

June 27, 2007 -- Tags: Macs, New-York-City

So last week I was walking around midtown when I stumbled upon the 5th Avenue Apple Store. This is the vaunted “Cube” flagship store. Seriously, I didn’t know it was there (I thought it was more downtown) — it’s right on the edge of Central Park, sorta near the Museum of Modern [...]

Panoply

June 25, 2007 -- Tags: Observations

The best part of being back in LA is driving my own car around. That’s one thing that gets irritating about NYC — you have to carry all your stuff around all day. You go to a meeting and you need your computer, then that night you’ve got to schlep it around [...]

This Is Serious Business

June 24, 2007 -- Tags: Food, Observations

My favorite breakfast in the entire world is cold pizza and a Diet Coke. There is something about the flavor profile that creates a magic molecule of deliciousness for me. I have simple needs and tastes. Real is where I keep it!

Lloyd and Jeanie took me to get the best burger [...]

Quality of Life

June 22, 2007 -- Tags: Hobos

I was on stopover in Detroit when my flight to LGA got cancelled. Every flight going into NYC and Newark was cancelled that night, so I had to stay over in Detroit.
The Detroit airport is all right — the Northwest Terminal is brand new and so large that it has a light rail [...]

Pretty

June 18, 2007 -- Tags: Observations, Recommended-Books

So I went in to the store to buy this:

And there on a table of new paperbacks, I saw this:

I had to get it. I ended up getting both. Cowboys and Indians.
What’s great is having a trusted stable of authors, bands, film directors, cooking show hosts, etc. — whenever they put out [...]

Cowboy Summer

June 17, 2007 -- Tags: Asian-American-Theater-Company, Asian-Americans-in-the-arts, Cowboy-Versus-Samurai, San-Francisco, Theater-/-Theatre, VACT, Vancouver, Writing

Two Cowboy Versus Samurai productions are landing this summer on the west coast! One in San Francisco, home of the cable car, gay pride, and Rice-a-Roni; the other in Vancouver British Columbia, home of the Canucks, extremely awesome totem poles, and very very many Chinese people.
These productions mark the California Debut and Canadian [...]