Sep 29 2013
California dreaming
Had a quick trip to Los Angeles for work (event with booksellers) and squeezed in some sightseeing. Silly me forgot to put on sunscreen, for a tour on the top of a double-decker open air bus. D’oh.
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- Courtyard outside my hotel
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- The Walt Disney Concert Hall, where I hopped on the tour bus
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- Tour bus selfie
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- Chinatown
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- Chinatown
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- Union Station and pretty trees
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- This is some government building but stood in for the villain’s HQ in the kid’s movie G-Force
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- The famous and fancy Biltmore
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- This corncob looking building was blown up in Independence Day
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- The Jazz Singer, the first talking picture, debuted here in ’29
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- The convention center. The climactic scenes of the Jackie Chan movie Rush Hour were filmed here
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- Obligatory picture of the Hollywood sign
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- I have the same size hands as Elizabeth Taylor
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger’s feet are, not surprisingly, very big
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- Bruce Willis’s feet are surprisingly not that big
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- Took this one in honor of my late mother-in-law, who was a Trekkie
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- I have the same shoe size as Meryl Streep. I love this, but I’m not sure why.
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- Took this in honor of my mom, who always had a crush on Christopher Reeve
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- The famed Chinese Theater in Hollywood
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- Met a writer friend, Katie, whom I’ve known for five years through email but we’d never met!
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- So cute. You’d think I’d been gone three weeks instead of three days! I’ll take it, though.
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- Avery insisted on carrying my suitcase at the airport
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