What are the odds…

My favorite L.A. film critic laid off mere weeks after me. Purely by coincidence.

Dammit, I don’t trust many other reviewers. And none of them reviewed absolutely everything, like he did.

I’ve talked to him about this and it sounded like some degree of burnout was happening. Here’s hoping that after some time [...]

“What’cha gonna do, brother, when the Hulkster runs wild on you?”

It’s not the Gamma radiation that makes Edward Norton’s irises glow, one suspects…but the fact that his big Marvel superhero movie is, and will always be in the shadow of Iron Man, not just because they both happen to be coming out the same summer, [...]

The Animation Show, for LA Weekly

I wrote this summer movie preview piece for OC Weekly. A sample:

Topping my must-see list is Disney/Pixar’s WALL.E (June 27), a confession that elicits strange looks from many of my peers, who seem to think the film is just another sequel to Short Circuit. Kids likely don’t need to be given a reason to see [...]

In order to maintain sewer lines in the basement of my building, all cars had to move out of there.

A reasonable request, but there’s a catch: the cars can only be moved between the hours of 6 and 7:30 a.m.

This is because all parking in my neighborhood is banned between midnight and 6. And the [...]

I have a new blog post up at LAWeekly.com, that spells out in more detail just what I was doing taking those downtown photos over the weekend.

Here’s the lede:

“On June 6, 7 & 8, we’ll swing the doors to Downtown LA wide open!” Thus spake the full-page ad in the recent Weekly, and who was [...]

Window-washer’s rig, roof of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel

View from the pool/park area at the Bonaventure, 5th floor

Store window display

America…no trash wlecome

Last wall standing after demolition

Self-portrait

God, I love downtown L.A. Even more so after having to put up with downtown Santa Ana for a year.

Anyone know how to fix a garbage disposal? Mine broke when I tried to get it to chop carrots. Drano doesn’t help.

Previously only available in Germany, THE LAST EVE comes to U.S. DVD Aug. 26th, from Vanguard Cinema. Pre-orders are on Amazon now.

If you’re an LYT completist, happy to own this for two scenes that feature me, you’ll want this. If not…

…I’d like to note that I’ve felt particularly proud to be an American this week.

Bonus: Apparently, Barack laid the smackdown on Senator Palpatine recently.

[photo courtesy of BarackObama.com]