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October 6, 2011

The songs of Rock Star's Girl

Wow. So it's been two weeks since I've updated my blog. Probably because it's been an incredibly busy two weeks.

For one of the two weeks, a friend from Montreal came to visit. It was a lot of fun to have her here, especially since I hadn't seen her since her last visit to L.A. over two years ago. This time I got to introduce her to the Hotel Cafe, Kitchen 24, the Rainbow, and Katsuya, and we also checked out a concert at the Hollywood Palladium.

On her last night in L.A., we decided to grab dinner at Saddle Ranch on Sunset, because she'd never been there but had heard about it. She'd also read about it in my book. It was still too early in the night for anyone to be riding the bull, but as we sat at our table, talking and eating our food, we noticed two men with guitars circulating through the room. They'd stop at a table every once in a while to play a song. I've never actually seen this at Saddle Ranch before, but I guess I must always have been there too late into the night... [Read full post]

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