Everyday Living

sight-seeing downtown

By Eric Richardson — October 04, 2004

My cousin Brent and his wife were in town from New York this weekend, and yesterday afternoon I brought them downtown to take a little walk around and see the sights. We started out from my apartment in Premiere Towers. Standing in the hallway I was telling them how the two buildings were joined together in the apartment conversion process. Brent noticed that...


someone needs an economics lesson

By Eric Richardson — September 22, 2004

Walked up out of the subway tonight and into setup for a movie shoot (no big surprise there, this is downtown). Outdoor shot set up to be the exterior of a hotel with maybe a cafe, outdoor seating, etc. Other props included a valet station (complete with keys inside the box) and a newsstand. Walking by the newsstand, here are the two magazines at my eyelevel...


Downtown: Arts, Asthetics, Culture, & Education

By Eric Richardson — September 22, 2004

I went to my second neighborhood council type meeting tonight, this time the Arts, Asthetics, Culture, & Education Committee. I’m not a member of the committee, but I figured that if I’m going to be Area Wide Resident Artist I might as well see what I can do for the arts. A lot of it was what you’d expect of any meeting: motions, procedures...


Mark my calendar for... 2005?

By Eric Richardson — September 20, 2004

Back in the summer of 2001 Kathy and I took a road-trip that sent us from Michigan to South Carolina, up the coast to New Jersey, and then back to Michigan. While in New Jersey we made the short trip up to New York to catch a Yankees game. We met my cousin Brent at his apartment in Jersey City and he took us into the city. Before we left the apartment, though...


Downtown: The Toluca Subway Yard

By Eric Richardson — September 15, 2004
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It seems today the LA Times caught up with the ongoing back and forth over the Toluca Yard subway portal. I thought I had talked about this last month when Preserve LA did their call to action, but I can’t seem to find anything in the archives. I guess I sort of half-responded in my head and the words never made their way here. Anyway, the Times story...


DLANC: My First Meeting

By Eric Richardson — September 15, 2004

As I mentioned in advance yesterday, last night was my first Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council meeting (DLANC, from hereafter). The meeting was at the DWP building on Hope, which I hadn’t really ever noticed before. To get to the meeting I had to leave my last class at USC early and catch the bus back to my apartment. From there I jumped in my car...


wish me luck

By Eric Richardson — September 14, 2004

I have my first Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) board meeting in about an hour. If you remember, last month I was elected Area-Wide Resident Artist. Tonight I get to go see what that actually entails. I’m fascinated by the concept, so I’m looking forward to it, even though I understand that anything like this is bound to be wrapped...


if only i brought my lunch

By Eric Richardson — September 14, 2004

So today I made a step most kids made a dozen years ago. I took the bus to school today. It’s a little odd to be able to say this in your fourth year of college, but I think this is the first time I’ve ever done that. Ever. I was home-schooled up through seventh grade, and then when I was in North Muskegon I lived too close to the school for the bus...


More Caltrans Building coverage

By Eric Richardson — September 13, 2004

Kevin Roderick over at the great LA Observed made mention of the new Caltrans Building today. He links to a Daily News story asking how Caltrans can get this building done on-time and on-budget when they’re unable to do the same for freeway projects. Kevin also links to an Archinect thread that has some photos of the building. In addition to just being...


once again, blame the drivers

By Eric Richardson — September 13, 2004

While talking about a Blue Line accident two weeks ago, I mentioned that Houston has a lot of similar problems. This misc.transport.urban-transit post quotes from an article showing that the only thing new about these accidents is that they’re car/train instead of car/car or car/solid object. Between 1998 and 2000, nearly 8,000 crashes were recorded along...