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Monday, Nov 16, 2009 12:17PM / Standard Entry

Friends came over to clean up articles for the next GR this afternoon. Left to right: Chocolate Cake, Janet (not to be confused with ja.net), and fmstlr. Two are GR Loungers and one is a returning intern. Guess which are which? Knowing my predisposition to cookies, CC brought the pig-shaped puerquitos from a panaderia near her house.

Afterward, Eloise took a stab at the pages. This is real, not posed. Can't comment on the quality of her edits, though.

Lefty?

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Saturday night on Sawtelle

Monday, Nov 16, 2009 5:45AM / Standard Entry

It's deadline time but Wendy's all caught up with articles, so she was able to go up to Big Bear with a bunch of gal pals. So I've been balancing Eloise time with the mag these last two days--kind of like always. My mom and dad took her and her cousin to the zoo in the afternoon, so I worked until having dinner with them. Then I took Eloise to the Deth P. Sun opening at GR2. Deth is on the left.

I think she dug the art. She liked his depictions of cats, moons, owls, and ocean... She liked the strawberries on the snack table, and we had ice cream at gr/eats before heading back to the car.

Who knows if Eloise will be into things like indie art openings or rock shows later on? Gotta take her to as many of them as I can now and hope that I cultivate her tastes to jibe with mine--and not turn her against them!

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Ray Barbee shoe release party in LBC

Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 8:46AM / Standard Entry

If you're not at the Deth P. Sun show at GR2 or watching the Pacman/Cotto fight with friends, head over to Proper and say hi to Ray!

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Josie, Conroy, L.A.

Monday, Nov 9, 2009 3:30PM / Standard Entry

I got a text message from Josie Ho (Chiu) this morning asking where she could get some good pancakes. At first I was gripping because I knew she and her husband Conroy Chan (24 Herbs) stay in Westwood when they visit L.A., and wasn't sure where what's good on the westside. But when she called to follow up and explained that she was traveling toward Amoeba on Sunset, the answer was obvious: Green Leaves on Hillhurst. I gushed that the eatery looks funky with ESPN on flatscreens and BC Rich guitars on the walls, but that the tropical pancakes with bananas and blueberries would freak them out. Of course, they were a hit.

Josie and Conroy came to L.A. to attend AFM and have been slammed with meetings, and this was the first day for them to bust out and hang out. Eventually, we met them and Eric on Sawtelle for dinner. Funny how the two get out of HK, away from all the gnarly paparazzi, only to have us take a bunch of pictures. (But Eloise will only get bigger, and who knows when they'll see each other again...)

Planning to see them one more time before they return home. I don't get to travel and visit faraway friends very often, so I'm grateful that Los Angeles is a place that a lot of people come through for business and don't mind staying for an extra day or so.

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Asobi Seksu up

Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 1:59AM / Standard Entry

Asobi Seksu is hitting the road (airways?) and can use your assistance. Go to kickstarter.com to see how you can help one of our favorite bands make it to Europe without going into massive debt--and also get some personalized goods in return.

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