Category Beauty in Strange Places

Excuse me ma’am…

…can you point me towards the smoke shop?

It Sure Is Great!

Don’t you agree?

The Ten Days of Hoffmas

I’m big into birthdays.  Like, really big into them.  So big, that every year I throw a weekend-long fest crammed full of my favorite things around Los Angeles, which I call Hoffmas.  All I want every year is to be surrounded by my friends and have a great time.  I specifically plan the Hoffmas activities […]

Gold Blob

I don’t know what you are, gold blob on the sidewalk, and I think it’s best we keep it that way. I do know that you do a good job at catching newspapers in your sticky grasp.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I began the day expecting to get pinched, but it seems nobody else on the bus got the memo either. So instead, I grabbed a bunch of green balloons from the theme party thrown by my job. Lookie there, the Pershing Square fountain is green for St. Paddy’s Day!  Did you know the Pershing Square […]

An Open Letter to the Person Who Poops Outside My Apartment

Let me start off by saying this: I understand that if you’re pooping on the sidewalk outside my apartment every morning, you’ve probably got bigger problems than I.  Shoot, here I am complaining about my favorite flats nearly landing right in your creation.  But come on, dude.  Right in the middle of the sidewalk?  There […]

The Sky is Falling

Today was the first significant rainfall that the drought-stricken Southland has seen in months.  In fact, this is the first significant rainfall I experienced since ditching my car.  What’s a girl to do?  Get a little wet, I suppose! I was on the verge of ordering a Lyft to get to work today.  The thought […]

Chinese New Year and the Golden Dragon Parade

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! If you were anywhere near Chinatown this weekend, hopefully you were able to catch some of the festivities.  On Saturday I biked to Chinatown with my friend, Ashley, for the 115th Annual Golden Dragon Parade.  Luck was on our side as we snagged prime real estate near the end of […]

If you are in Los Angeles tonight…

…Go outside.  Do something  outdoors.  Anything! Tonight is one of those beautifully warm nights.  It has the warmth of late July, but with the clean winter sky.  I decided to take the long way home from work tonight and enjoy a walk in the evening air.  When I got home, I cracked open a beer […]

No Pants Metro Ride: Unofficial Code of Conduct

If you were in Union Station the afternoon of Sunday, January 12th, you would have noticed a lot of people in their undies.  It was LA’s 6th Annual No Pants Metro Ride, and my first year participating.  Just as one would expect, the event and the pantsless after party at Loaded in Hollywood were a […]