Yearly Archives: 2010

In this rare moment of peace, now that Judge Walker has donned his shining knight’s armor and slain the beasts of bigotry and fear; now that our side is winning this current bout of tug-of-war and the dread Proposition 8 is temporarily being cast into the mud; and now that marriage is (at least in […]

To round out the Comic-Con experience (blogged about endlessly by everyone, I know), and drive a final stake through its proverbial heart, I thought I’d get the perspective from someone who was actually working the convention. Denis O’Hare, who plays the Vampire King of Mississippi Russell Edgington (Evil! EEEE-VIL!!) on this season of True Blood, […]

I’m surrounded by superheroes, pirates, Navi natives, Yu Gi Oh! characters and sexy nurses. A busy day on Hollywood Boulevard? Nah, I’m at Comic-Con! We were lucky to have scored some last minute tickets to the sold-out event, due to the largesse of the our favorite undead friend, Denis O’Hare. He’d been flown to the […]

All right, jet leg lag can’t be an excuse forever. Yes, for about a week the repercussions of traveling 14 hours from Athens to Los Angeles, forever in daylight, did kick my ass. I would wander through the day in a kind of zombie haze, falling asleep in my salad at restaurants at 6 pm. Then […]

How can this be? Five days have arisen, melted into one another, and vanished. We’ve seemed to have done so little— no island hopping, only a few visits to other villages, and yet, the time, she passes.  We’ve fallen into the Island Rhythm: wake up late (late-ish, about 8:30), swim, visit one of the knock-out […]

Last I posted, we were leaving Athens for the Cyclades island of Sifnos. Thus ends the reverential, historical meditation on Greece. Welcome to Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Doug, Benjamin and I barely make it back to the hotel from a barely-eaten meal at a touristy taverna and we meet up with my sister and her […]

For about two months before my trip, I had been assiduously studying Greek. There’s an excellent audio language learning company called Pimsleur which my sister Sue has been using for years, and they’re great for L.A. folk who are constantly in their cars. It works almost exclusively aurally, which means that I don’t have to […]

My sister Debbie is making candy dish fortune tellers out of paper placemats, a fitting endeavor on the way to Delfi, site of oracular prophecy. We’ve stopped at what is possibly the cleanest and most stylish way station we have ever seen, drinking limonadas and stretching our legs three quarters of the way to our […]

Why am I up at 5:45 in the morning? It’s not the jet lag, I don’t think. Last night was perfectly fine. Perhaps because the air conditioning was turned off… Dear Lord, I look at the tangle of cords and adaptors surrounding me and plugged in— computer, Flip Video camera, Canon Cybershot, Ipod, IPAD, PSP— […]