M & I flew to New Orleans after work on Thursday. We arrived late and fell asleep once we arrived at our bed and breakfast in the Garden District. But why were we there in the first place?

My friend gieves turned 40 this month. Some time ago she said she wanted to do something special for the occasion, and I suggested that I had just been to a ( Read more... )

Friday night started a bit slow. M wasn't feeling well, so we got takeout from Thai Kitchen. I hadn't been there in some years and was pleased to learn that they had remodeled the dining room to hold more than 6 people. I had a seafood stir fry platter and M got pad thai and a soup. I used to think Thai Kitchen was the best in Cleveland. It's still ( Read more... )

Some out of town travel delayed this post farther past the date of the events in question than any of my previous "last weekend" posts, but as I write this it appears my memory is actually pretty good, or maybe I've just been keeping calendars and lists for way too damn long.

Friday night we decided to try Herb's Tavern for dinner, which is a ( Read more... )

This weekend was nicely balanced, activity wise. For starters, I finished one comic on each of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday I knocked another Harvey Pekar book Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story. Harvey's work has been a minor focus for 2018, with this being the third such book. As an autobiography of a minor media figure of the first ( Read more... )

This was actually a rather unbooked weekend, and I have no complaints about that. M was out of town for family stuff and I was home with both dogs and minimal schedules. Of course, that changed.

M and I have tickets to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the art museum in August. M even saw the documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival. ( Read more... )

M was in Columbus for the weekend visiting her mother, so I was comparatively on my own.

I started Friday night with my third baseball game of the year but my first from my season tickets. I was joined by my friend Tony (once upon a time onabus). An extremely heavy rain passed over shortly before the game, but the grounds crew was on point and ( Read more... )

I woke up on Wednesday, July 25 in a small apartment near Golden Gate Park. Said apartment was the then home of my fraternity brother Jon and his wife Annie. They both had to work, so I was on my own for the day. After a leisurely morning in, I walked through the park and then caught a lift to watch the getaway game between the Giants and the ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, July 18, I left San Diego and headed north to Los Angeles. It was a comparatively easy drive, and on the way there I encountered relatively little of the famed LA traffic. That wouldn't last, alas.

My initial destination was the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard near museum row and is actually a ( Read more... )

After the last interlude, M and I went to Detroit for an overnight trip. The main impetus for the trip was a Diego Garcia / Frida Kahlo art exhibit that was paired with the permanent installation of the Detroit Industry Murals. We also went to the Motown Museum, which was pretty fantastic.

82. Friday, May 15 - China House - I got Chinese takeout ( Read more... )

I went to MOCA Cleveland last Saturday, courtesy of some free passes from CHK, who works in their development area. Those of you in Cleveland have probably already seen its new vaguely collapsed cube at the corner of Euclid and Mayfield which was designed by Farshid MoussaviFortunately, the building is pretty cool looking, because it's clear that ( Read more... )