Category Archives: Los Angeles

Pico

I don’t remember the last time I drove around LA at 3am. It’s the strangest time, 3am. By this time, bars are already closed and dry, dealers assume their customers have gotten high from someone else, radio stations are put on autopilot, re-airing what’s been said, sold, and played exactly 12 hours ago. Bakers are [...]

Basic Essentials of Restrooms of mid-class Korean Restaurants

at least 2 soju posters endorsed by K-pop star(s) and/or comedian(s)
brand name soap dispenser containing generic pink soap
at least 1 Christian praise night flyer with distressed/ grungy type
a plant

E.B. White _Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976

While I was in New York, I started doing a lot more reading (thanks, F and 6 line!), and like millions of others, fell in love with Gay Talese and E.B. White. As cheeseball as it sounds, I felt obligated to read all their selected works regarding New York City while I was there, just [...]

Natural History Museum

I’m still not in New York

I still get emails now and then from newsletters I subscribed to while I was in New York. I’ve been trying to unsubscribe from all ny venues and switch my location of my newsletters  (dailycandy, groupon, and thrillist) from new york to los angeles, but apparently some higher being finds it funny for none of [...]

time lapse_ fire

I can watch this forever

palm

ABC Pets

The Last Bookstore_ Haunted

While I was waiting for my friends to have dinner at Pete’s in downtown LA, I went into a used bookstore called The Last Bookstore, which turned out to be a treasure chest! Out of the 5 books I found, I also found an audio version of Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted in cd form (11 hours [...]

Santee Alley_ Mannequins