Married to Sapna
I got married to Sapna this morning at Santa Ana Courthouse. I’m pretty happy about that. We do have a much bigger and fancier wedding planned for 3 April next year but since I’m leaving...
Category: Los Angeles
Sunset in Venice
One of the bizarre but wonderful things about living in Los Angeles is that when all your friends are freezing cold or trapped under the snow in January, you get to walk in the sun...
Satriani vs Coldplay: court docs and audio links
So British superband of the moment Coldplay is being sued in Los Angeles for plagiarising guitarist Joe Satriani in their hit Viva la Vida. Joe says that the song – also the title of Coldplay’s...
Credit Score 742: The United States finally welcomes me (and my money)
It’s a funny thing living in the United States of America as a visa holder. As neither citizen nor green card possessor, you are an “alien†or, more accurately, a “legal alienâ€. This no-man’s-land status...
Earthquake: 5.4
I’ve just been through my first earthquake experience. I was on the phone and the building started swaying. It was perfectly quiet and nearly not noticeable. But as soon as you notice it – probably...
Too much bloody work
It’s been six weeks since I last posted here. That can’t be good. And I have a ton of stuff to get out of my mind through my fingers. The one-day trivia brain of Los...
Wednesday morning dawning
There are some advantages to not being able to sleep – you get to catch the sunrise in my new flat on Santa Monica beach.
Wet veg, everlasting salads and other mysterious secrets of the American supermarket
The organic food-market is an extraordinary thing. Supermarkets always claim to be providing what their customers want, and so since a large number of people are growing increasingly concerned about the chemicals shoved willy-nilly into...
The secret of American bacon
I have just discovered how Americans have their bacon the way they do. I hate the way Americans have their bacon – crisp and brittle. Thin strips that crumble and snap and taste like a...