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  • The Lobster Shack from “Easy A”

    The Lobster Shack from “Easy A”

    ‘ Another location from fave movie Easy A that fellow stalker Owen, from the When Write Is Wrong blog, informed me of while the Grim Cheaper and I were out and about doing some stalking in the Ojai area almost two years ago was the Carrows Restaurant that masqueraded as the Lobster Shack where Woodchuck…

  • Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Pasadena – One of Joel McHale’s Favorite Hangouts

    Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Pasadena – One of Joel McHale’s Favorite Hangouts

    ‘ As I have mentioned quite a few times before on my blog, this stalker absolutely loves herself some Joel McHale.  So when I saw that the cutie The Soup host/Community star had been interviewed about some of his favorite SoCal haunts in the August 2011 “The Best of LA” issue of Los Angeles Magazine,…

  • Kyoto Gardens from “Her”

    Kyoto Gardens from “Her”

    ‘ As a kid, I was pretty much never without a book in hand.  (Truth be told, not much has changed since.)  One of my favorite childhood tomes was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 masterpiece The Secret Garden.  Reading it made me want nothing more than to unearth a lush hidden idyll of my own.  That…

  • The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles from “My So-Called Life”

    The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles from “My So-Called Life”

    ‘ Fellow stalker/My So-Called Life aficionado Andrew recently went on a mission to try to track down the church that was used in the Season 1 Christmas-themed episode of fave show My So-Called Life titled “So-Called Angels”.  He had just picked up the most-recently released boxed set of the series, which came out in 2007,…

  • Latest Scene It Before Post – About Joe Jost’s from “License to Wed”

    Latest Scene It Before Post – About Joe Jost’s from “License to Wed”

    ‘ I pay my respects to Robin Williams today with a Los Angeles magazine post about Joe Jost’s bar, where he filmed the movie License to Wed.  You can read it here.  My columns typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours. And don’”‘”‘t forget that I’”‘”‘ll be on “The Bill Feingold Show Featuring Kevin…

  • Michael Jackson’s Former Condo

    Michael Jackson’s Former Condo

    ‘ A few months back I read a fabulous book named Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story written by author J. Randy Taraborelli about the life and times of the King of Pop.  I’ve mentioned the biography once before in a post I wrote back in September about the Jackson Family’s first…

  • JLo Has Left the Building!

    JLo Has Left the Building!

    ‘ OK, so while I know that this is old news and that I have blogged about this location once before, I just had to do a little post on JLo’”‘”‘s (former) restaurant, Madres. Way back in early July, I dragged my boyfriend out to Madre’”‘”‘s to grab a bite to eat as this stalker…

  • “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Apartment Building

    “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Apartment Building

    ‘ In 1975, after the real-life owner of The Mary Tyler Moore Show house put a big, fat ixnay on letting the series do any more filming on her property, producers decided to move their spunky heroine to the newly-built, multi-colored apartment complex known as Cedar Square West in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis.  My…

  • Casa del Mar Hotel from “Just Go With It”

    Casa del Mar Hotel from “Just Go With It”

    ‘ You can watch the Just Go With It trailer, in which Casa del Mar is featured, by clicking above. The hotel also popped up in the Season 2 episode of The Mentalist titled “18-5-4” as the supposed San Francisco-area Tidewater Resort where Oliver Simon McDaniel (aka Evan Peters) hid out. For whatever reason, producers…

  • Retail Rodeo from “The Good Girl”

    Retail Rodeo from “The Good Girl”

    ‘ This past Saturday morning, the Grim Cheaper and I headed out to Simi Valley to stalk a location that he was actually excited about for once – the House of the Book building at the Brandeis-Barden Campus of the American Jewish University, which stands in for the Visualize cult’s headquarters on fave show The…