Everyday Living

Downtown: debating the new LAPD HQ

By Eric Richardson — August 24, 2004

As promised earlier, I went to City Hall tonight to attend the meeting about the new police headquarters. It was my fist time in City Hall, so that part of it was cool in and of itself. It really is an amazing building. I arrived at the meeting about a half hour after it started, so I missed any remarks and presentations that opened. What I was there for...


Downtown: the fun of politics

By Eric Richardson — August 24, 2004

So assuming I get out of class a little early today I think I'm going to be making my way down to City Hall to sit in on the meeting on the new LAPD headquarters. The LA Times also has an article today. Now, I don't have a lot invested in the debate so I'm really going more to sit and listen than I am to push any particular agenda. I do feel like it's a bit...


senior living in downtown

By Eric Richardson — August 24, 2004

The LA Times today has an article on Angelus Plaza, the senior housing project right in the middle of downtown. I've wondered about how such a large project can survive in the midst of the renewed development taking place right now, and this article gets a little into its history. I had no idea that Angelus Plaza was 24 years old. The articles quotes a lady...


from the neighborhood

By Eric Richardson — August 23, 2004

One of the things I've been meaning to do since I moved downtown is to put some effort into looking around for cool historic pictures from my neighborhood that I could get prints of to hang in the apartment. Today I noticed that USC has a Digital Archives that includes a bunch of pictures taken by AAA (or the Auto Club of Southern California, if you prefer to...


the caltrans building on foot

By Eric Richardson — August 19, 2004

I took a walk today at lunch. From my apartment I went up Spring to 1st, and then from there headed a block east to take some pictures of the new Caltrans Building. My opinion of this building is altered a little bit each time I see it, but I think in general I'd say it gets refined more than changed. Check out my pictures starting here to see an admittedly...


no, i'm not mayor yet

By Eric Richardson — August 19, 2004

So, a funny thing happened last night: I became an elected official. I think my title is "Area-Wide Resident Artist", a position on the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. Yeah, "Resident Artist"... Me... What does that say about art? Here's how it went down: Around noon I got an email from Brady Westwater asking if I was going to be at the election...


three nights of catch-up

By Eric Richardson — August 15, 2004

Time to catch up on a couple nights' worth of events... Thursday evening we made our way over to Amboeba and were not disappointed. PJ Harvey played a short but focused set, and covered a good range of albums with her song selection. Thanks to traffic we missed the very beginning of the set, which I'm going to guess she started with The Letter, but that was...


thanks, New York Times

By Eric Richardson — August 12, 2004

Is it odd that the New York Times is telling me about free wifi in my neighborhood? I ran across a story today, mostly fluff, talking about telco responses to people stealing wifi (mooching off neighbors). I don't really care about that part so much, but the very bottom contained the part I was interested in: Two blocks from my apartment is the Walt Disney...


midday downtown

By Eric Richardson — August 11, 2004

I'm working from home today and needed to return a DVD to the library (The Madness of King George, which Kathy and I rented and watched last night... Her pick; I hadn't heard of it, but liked it), so D4, Miggles, and I walked over there at lunch. On the way we ate ate the Yorkshire Grill, which I had seen many times but never been inside. It was very much...


a busy friday

By Eric Richardson — August 07, 2004

Busy day yesterday... I worked from home, which allowed me and Miggles to meet Kathy, her sister, Magilla, and D4 at McCormick's and Schmidt's for lunch. They were celebrating 12 years downtown by selling lobsters for $12. I'm not normally a lobster person (too much work... give me a steak any day), but $12 is a steal so that's what I got. The place was...