Marking a few things off my list …
28. Watch a movie at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
It was a gray Saturday. H and I were running late as we shuffled through the throng of tourists standing in the cemented footprints out front, but there was no need to worry about getting a good seat for “Clash of the Titans.” Halfway through this snooze of a film I sneaked out to scope out the ladies room, located a few flights of stairs down in Old Hollywood style. As I primped my hair in one of the many full-length mirrors in the butterfly-adorned sitting room, I wondered how many celebrities had stood exactly where I was standing, doing the exact same thing.
17. Try Ethiopian food.
I’ve driven down Fairfax through Little Ethiopia a gazillion times without stopping, so this was long overdue. We ate lamb and chicken, both of which were flavorful and spicy, but the sourness of the bread was a bit of a turnoff for me so I quickly gave up on it and instead picked up the food with my bare fingers. The best part of the meal was the coffee afterward, served with a bit of mood-setting incense.
Sadly the photos above are not my own. They were tragically erased in an incident earlier this week, but I turned to Flickr, where I found photos whose points of view were strikingly similar to ones I took.
[Images via impalergeneral, abbyladybug and bootsintheoven]
