Visit to L.A.

We took our first family roadtrip to LA a few weeks ago. We stayed at the Viceroy in Santa Monica, which also happened to be ground zero for the Gumball 3000 rally. Pulling into the hotel we were assailed by noise, race queens, exhaust fumes, television crews etc ... I was quite annoyed that they did not tell us about the car rally when booking the room.

On Sunday we stopped by a friend's house to say hello!

Pluvial silliness.

A recent topic of conversation concerned the "Asian ladder." Admittedly, I have never heard of it explained this way. The argument is framed as such: Asian worth can be traded like currency by marrying a "preferred" Asian race. The rationale is intellectually lazy and dishonest and, frankly, racist in a Suzy Wong way. The notion of trading Asian status currency is silly. The ladder assumes a national inferiority complex mixed with Darwinian mumbo jumbo. I would not surprised if the ladder was a WASP invention, after all they are kooky.

I suspect my pigment challenged friend heard it from his moon-faced Korean friend (who's opinions are moot since she was adopted by an American family, is Suzy Wong and loathes her own race). As an aside, check out this shining example of an adopted Korean. Perhaps my friend heard it from his brother's fraternity brothers (his WHITE brother joined an ASIAN frat).

As you can tell from the picture above, my favorite guy disagrees with the notion of an Asian ladder. His thought bubble says it all.

Weekend redux

1. 28 miles of running.
2. Fine-tuned the banana-apple ratio for my favorite guy.
3. Watched Terminator Salvation.

Our son's name

Our neighbor quipped, "How clever! A pun! I do like puns." If our son decides not to run, that is fine. However, it would be killingly funny when they announced his name at a race.

P.S. He is wearing the family drinking hat. My youngest brother has been known to wear his hat at the bar.

My brother the comedian.

Well, I'll have to say he looks like us in our baby photos. Big eyes,
inquisitive look, wondering why he's wearing jazzercize leg warmers,
wondering why there's a half-naked man behind him.

These days.

First up is a picture of my good looking favorite guy. Since the picture, his hair has filled in. Renovations are finished, paint touch-ups are all that are needed. With everything more or less completed, it is time to baby proof the home.

This is the guest bathroom. I installed a paper towel dispenser, I hate washing hand towels.

3Form wall and door of the guest bathroom. In the evening, the entire hallway is bathed in green.

(find Bob Dylan in the photo)

Bookshelf with 3Form panels. Panel layout and color design by Leonora Chan. Mo's Rody is in the foreground!

The living space - Rug by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. Jay Osgerby is Theo's (of Leo and Theo fame) art school tutor. The color scheme of the rug ties the entire space together (note the use of the color singleton). The longitudinal pattern facilitates the cardinal axis of the space. The area is friendly and easy - the path of least resistance accesses each functional living unit. The implied functional space maintains the wash of natural light and preserves living space in a limited floor plan.