Leave any pride in your work at the door

The Los Angeles office of the Mail Online is a tiny bungalow-of-a-building in Venice, with only the smallest of signs – usually hidden by a few […]

Another season of Dodgers baseball

It’s that time of year, Spring training has finished, the extravagant exhibition games are over and the Major League Baseball season has finally begun. As […]

Stop → Look → Listen → Blog

Generally speaking driving in Los Angeles is straightforward, fun and for the most part stress free. Although it must be said, when I was having […]

Let’s just bug out and call it even, OK?

The closest I’d ever come to an earthquake was a simulation at the Science Museum, where you stood in the middle of a mock up […]

Is Santa Monica Little Britain?

While some areas of Los Angeles are unmistakably pockets of foreign culture, like Chinatown or Little Tokyo, with billboards, posters and shop signs written in […]

And the hits just keep on coming

As much as I wanted the apartment at 827 4th street, I think the one I’ve ended up with is much nicer, certainly more expensive, […]

Pink and yellow and blue and green…

The last time I had to look for an apartment, the process involved sitting in a café, day after day, thumbing through the lively-colored pages […]

Thirty long years in coming

After planning any sizable project for some time, when the day finally arrives and the anticipation is over, it’s normal I guess to be in […]

What if Guy Fawkes had pulled it off?

November 5th is known in the UK as Guy Fawkes Night. Across the country, firework displays take place to commemorate the failed plot in 1605 […]