Seth's birthday hike

Digging through my hardrives for the family project, I stumbled across this oldie but goodie I put together a couple years ago.

Seth was turning 31. Plus, after some historic rainfall, Saturday was going to be the first dry day in a week. With our charming grey-brown "marine layer" temporarily washed away, what better day to go for a hike?

+ In n Out
+ winding canyons
+ car sickness
+ Sandstone Peak, the highest point in Santa Monica
+ lots of pictures of heels and butts
+ and middle fingers
+ novelty size bottles of Glenlivet
+ Neptune's Net

Follow Your Bliss

This seems like an appropriate first real post within the context of my inaugural one.

My friend Art googled our friend Ryan's name and came up with an absolute gem. Eleven years ago, an 18 year old Ryan and his big brother Michael camped out overnight at the Burbank AMC 16, determined to be the first in line for the historic premier of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. There was a reporter from The Daily News there who got a priceless quote from Ryan:

Our high school AP Literature teacher had us study Joseph Campbell's "A Hero With a Thousand Faces". We learned about the hero's journey, and how these epic stories are grounded in ancient mythology.

But I mean come on, what 18 year old says that?!? One reason we all love ryan so much. Even though he's just some geek.