Fish, food, friends, art in Chinatown

I try to spend quality time with Wendy and Eloise every day, but am really working on it during this particular deadline. So after spending a couple hours at the office on Saturday, I headed home in time for a family outing to Chinatown. Funny thing is I got to see a ton of other people as well.


The primary goal was for Wendy to see her friend's art opening, but we knew that her parents would be down for Chinese food--even though I'm sure my father-in-law wanted to watch the Laker game pretty badly.


Eloise started to get restless during dinner, so I took her out for a walk with the plan of reuniting with Wendy and my in-laws by the art galleries. On the way there, Eloise and I ran into my good friend and GR contributor Ken with his lady, Jenny.


Over at Chung King Project, I introduced Eloise to my friend Gina, whose Shooting Blanks show is on the walls. It was nice to finally see more of her photography in person.


I was hoping to run into Poonam and Ali, and did. They live right down the alley from the galleries, and have a killer pad that they designed and orchestrated themselves. (They also created a three-month-old little girl!)


Finally, we tracked down the man of the hour, Andy, at China Art Objects. Too bad you can't see the detail of his piece in the background. (I think his friend's name is Addy, but I could be wrong.)


On the way out, we saw ex-Emily's Sassy Lime member and old-school GR friend Wendy, who currently runs Ooga Booga, which is right across the street. I haven't seen her in years. She said she was ADD because she had a DJ set coming up, but I remember her always being like that! (On the left, her buddy Wilson.)