Jill Murray
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I ended my hiatus from breaking last night with back-to-back Break and Break-Fusion classes with Helen at Studio Sweatshop. I so missed the feeling of my hands on the floor and my elbows on my knees, and my weight on my head, etc, etc… It felt amazing to get back to [...]
Continue Reading →Looking back over these photos, I can still remember the exact temperature (brisk) and smell (outdoorsy) of the air in this place on this day.
The trails that lead from to and around the Observatory in Griffith Park give you amazing views of all of LA, from the city to the sky.
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Continue Reading →The neighborhood in LA that Cecil calls “home” has another name, and that name is Silverlake.
Normally when I’m in a new city, I like to find out how it works at an infrastructural level– subways, traffic, sanitation– and how these details impact or reflect back on the people who live there.
I’ve already discussed [...]
Continue Reading →Part of my research for my upcoming novel, Rhythm & Blues (Doubleday, 2010) involved subscribing to RSS feeds from celebrity “news and gossip” sites (or gossip and gossip if you prefer). So I’m almost too familiar with the narrow view of LA you can glimpse past the preening and puking stars that populate celebrity news [...]
Continue Reading →Good morning! Today we continue our blog back in time to the distant era of March, and the mythical land of Los Angeles.
I was in LA primarily to hang out with my friend, YA author Cecil Castellucci, invade her apartment, and make it impossible for her to get any serious work done. I’m [...]
Continue Reading →We’re getting one extra “leap second” tonight to compensate for the Bay Of Fundy’s rotation-slowing grip on the planet. See? Canada matters.
Now I have to go figure out what I’m going to do with all that extra time.
Continue Reading →Feeling just a little threadbare after a week of visiting and vacationing…
Continue Reading →Alright, high fives everybody, 2008 is almost over. We made it.
I’m officially on vacation for a week and a bit. We’re going to be hanging out in Toronto, then we’ll be back home to see some people, and hopefully squeeze in a little tobogganing.
See you in 2009!
Continue Reading →One of the many hassles of renting instead of owning is that we’re not allowed to change anything serious in our apartment, and we have no control over how problems are “fixed.”
We’ve had a leaky ceiling in our living room since September, due to a leaky roof. The whole roof needs replacing, but [...]
Continue Reading →Last weekend was a long one in Canada. We all had Monday off, but no one could really agree why. In most of Canada, it was called Victoria Day, in honour of an English queen that no one in England bothers to take a day off for anymore. In Quebec it was the Journée nationale [...]
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