With Rommel

Gardens Rock

at UES - laboratory elementary school at UCLA

Hot Pot Madness

Inspired

What I do when I have Fridays to myself.

Daikokuya

Ramen with Elise and Jeannie after a day of playing drums at Inner City Arts.

Grandma

you silly fish head

That's half a fish head. Fish monger? Catfish? We waited a long time for this dish - the most popular one at Hunan Restaurant.

Hunan cuisine is smothered in oil. Why? I didn't think to ask Chin Chuan that night, but my aunt knew why.

She said that a long time ago, men in China attended schools far from their hometowns. The women in Hunan would have to travel long distances to bring food to their husbands. In the winter, pouring a generous layer of scalding hot oil over a dish (soups, noodles, etc.) would keep the food from going cold. With all that oil, did the men ever make it home to their wives?

Our food was very, very hot. Not for the faint of heart.

No More Troops

Lounging at the Getty Villa

Mom

mom,
posing in the afternoon

slava's snowshow
introduced her to royce hall

she bought his music
he's a clown you know, you must

we devoured monkey bread
from B&L's on 3rd St
like we always do

on the drive home with mom
with me,
behind the wheel this time