Our Yearly Playlist

Happy Fathers Day, Pa!

First ceremony down. Brit got her athlete sash and pin with all of the other student-athletes in Friday’s ceremony.

Eating Kushis with Mom and Jim in the desert.

Found the best views in LA. The new Waldorf Astoria.

Congrats, Alex for being drafted by the Cardinals. Hope they trade you to the Giants one day.

Graduates!

IMy  niece and nephew are moving on!

A Star is Born

Kennedy in the SEUSSICAL.

#19 in Progress

Not great.

Both will be sleeping well tonight.

A Memorial Day weekend feast.

Took in Brit’s boyfriend, Alex’s last collegiate game of his career. He saved his best for last and pitched a four hit complete game shut out against Cal Poly.

Morrow Bay

A beautiful start to the weekend.

#100 In Progress

Hawaiian House of Horrors from henry james on Vimeo. #100 Dad’s 70th Video Coming Soon.

Brittany is graduating college this year and this cat refuses to walk toward the light.

#19 in Progress

#19: Read ten new books. In anticipation of his 40th anniversary tour, I read Petty.

#13 Done

#13 Try 10 New L.A. Restaurants Been done. Oysters at the former Rat Pack hot spot Dominicks, now Verlaine.

A great wine and food event at the Warner Brothers Back Lot. However….. Too many wine pairings resulted in me raising my auction paddle. I guess we’re going to the Gobi desert in Mongolia and staying in a yurt. I’ll have to pick up a Genghis Kahn biography soon.

#79 Done

#79: Garage Sale. 5 hours. $1190. Broke our record.

Cheers to the start of the California Wine Masters weekend.

#13 in Progress

#13: Try 10 New LA Restaurants Citizen in Beverly Hills. The Tai Snapper was a hit.

Moved In.

New Office from henry james on Vimeo.

Mother’s Day

    Brunch, bowling and a pasta dinner made for a fine Mother’s Day.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mama.

#74 Done

Hollywood Cup Polo Tournament. Good Times. Yeah, I shaved my head, too.

#47 in Progress

$47: See 10 New Movies in the Theater Guardians of The Galaxy 2. The first was my favorite Marvel movie. This one was a worthy sequel.

Coming in Hot

Woke up extra early to feed the beast. Lost 4.4lbs on the fast. Down to 178. Will try hard to get under 175 by months end.

So hungary.

#97 In Progress

#97: Weigh 175 We’re following my brother George’s lead and trying this fast mimicking diet for five days. I’ve made it to 4:30pm on day one without gnawing my arm off.  Hoping to make it to Saturday.

#13 in Progress

#13: Try 10 New LA Restaurants Beauty and Essex for a late Bday dinner.

#1 Complete

It’s benign! Both tumor spots are clear. Full body scan clear. Lymph nodes clear. Bank account drained. Worth it.

My back invited me to the annual, how dare you bend over to dry your legs party. Apparently sticking needles in my hand is the Eastern road to recovery. 

Amazed he doesn’t hate me yet.

Happy 6th Birthday!

In a cruel twist of fate, Hemingway must spend the day at the vets for a surgery to remove another tumor.

#13 in Progress

#13: Try 10 New LA Restaurants L & E Oyster Bar. Excellent. 12 Varieties of raw oysters every night. Always straight from the farm.

#13 in Progress

Oysters and branzino at The Edmon.

The Final Cut

Fashion is fleeting. After more than six years, we have decided to let Basically Me, as well as all private production, die a quiet death. Since launching the line, we have witnessed a tremendous change in the industry. Luxury brands have gotten more expensive and everyone else is in a race to the bottom. So many multi multi million dollar brands have gone under in…

A New Way to Sell Clothes

IMG_5500 from henry james on Vimeo. A boutique experience at a private residence.

Correcting last year’s mistake. Dog food is now being made at home.

#38 Done

#38: Watch a Sunset

A Nice Reentry Weekend

Cuba, My Final Take

I fell in love with Havana.  At first, I was a little nervous. After leaving the airport we drove through revolution square and you could feel the repression. But once we got into Havana, the island began to open up.  Despite being poor and oppressed, the Cuban people were warm and welcoming.  After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US turned the screws…

It took an Army

There are no book stores in Cuba. Unless you want a book celebrating Fidel or Che, you’re not going to find anything. Even so, my mission when I landed was to find the book, Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway wrote while living in Cuba. And I wanted the first and only edition published in Cuba. I put out the feelers when we landed…

The Spoils

Havana Nights

Habana Nights from henry james on Vimeo. salsa? from henry james on Vimeo.

Another Surprisingly Good Lunch

Art Walk

Art is resistance. It’s alive and growing stronger in Cuba.