Doing the annual transfer.

Making room for 2012.

Books I Read: 2010 Edition

• Gay Brewer - A Detective in Distress: Philip Marlowe's Domestic Dream
• H. T. Webster - Webster Unabridged
• Michael Chabon - The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
• Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

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Some notes to myself:

• Karl Benjamin
• Vija Celmins
• Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps
• Cloud Box
• Untitled (Venice)
• Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (duh)
• North Wall
• Red Concave Circle (way cooler than Gray Column)
  

Two not at all related articles

Rivers Cuomo Messes You Up Forever
Vernon is so crazy. oh, it's also Exclusively Industrial.

Flashing lights.

Most of you know that I am more than passingly interested in Los Angeles history. As such, I read lots o'blogs about this stuff with some irregularity. I RSSfeed Dear Old Hollywood (what are the grammar rules involving blogs? I am going to assume they are italicized and individual posts are put in quotation marks and not look this up) and "Hollywood's Earl Carroll Theatre" turned out to be really swell, although not as much because of the post as because of one of the comments.

The Earl Carroll Theatre also had a clever way of displaying their neon sign at night - the THEATRE part would flash EAT, then AT, then THE, then THEATRE.

Get it? I love that. Thanks, "Matt." By the way, the theater is now Nickelodeon's studio in Hollywood.

I went to see the Maira Kalman exhibition at the Skirball yesterday. I liked it way more than I expected; I liked it a lot. But, after leaving, I wanted to learn more about her husband, Tibor. Check out this interesting biography.

Pigeon John

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He was on my radio show a while back. He's still recording the jams. Check out this commercial with his track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBnnmTnleuw

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This was taken leaving a Neutra-designed residence in Westwood that was too expensive for me to live in.

The back pictured is the gentleman responsible for this Tumblr.

bah.

Psychoanalysis of Talking Heads
Flags! I got all of them except Lebanon.
Pothole gardens! Awesome!

More articles.

Christmas song Jews.
White House vegetables not actually White House vegetables.
History of Christmas cards, sorta.
Super interesting article on Highland Park Jews.

Interesting articles I read today.

Anthony Bourdain reflects on 2007.
Jonathan Gold was only freelancing? Crazy.
I'm sad I never went to the Southwest Museum.
Although it took me way more than 25 minutes to get through to my gate last week, this article makes a convincing argument for the "Israelification" of American airports.
The Offline American.