One or two dinners and brunches at Suppenkuche:
One or two games of Settlers of Catan:
One or two nouns too many:
Artists messing with tissue cultures:
The canals of Venice, Los Angeles:
Downtown Los Angeles, from afar:
A Korean Temple on a coastal hilltop:
The port that sustains the sprawl:
And the cranes that keep it moving:
Meanwhile, I learned a language that nobody knows:
But not the one that this city prefers:
Reflections on their reflections:
Bill Clinton has a library:
The Northern Irish peace process has a chess set:
Hillary wanted to be a nuclear scientist:
Bill wanted to be a cowboy:
People have a very different attitude to animals than I do (part I):
People have a very different attitude to animals than I do (part II):
San Francisco has secret pockets...
... full of junk:
And views!
But fog! And palm trees!
I have seen a Hitler teapot:
Having palm trees outside the studio still stuns me:
As does the radical change in building style, one hour away:
I have seen the Bay Bridge from a funny angle (part I):
I have seen the Bay Bridge from a funny angle (part II):
That fog again, a curious accent:
A curious contrast:
And in between colours:
Now live music is rare:
But epic:
The transport is suprisingly European:
Meanwhile, brief returns to London take me straight in at the top: