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Index

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VarleyWalks

Route 66 Reversed - Wilshire Boulevard - Los Angeles River - Sunset Boulevard

Disneyland

VarleyNews, etc

Sunset Boulevard

Part 1:

"There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb ............. babe!"

Part 2:

In which we decide that a road by any other name is still Sunset Boulevard

Part 3:

Echo Park..cho Park...cho Park...cho Park

Part 4:

Echo Park to Silver Lake

Part 5:

The Music Box

Part 6:

Hooray! Hollywood!

Part 7:

"Poverty Row"

Part 8:

Out of the closet and deep into Hollywood

Part 9:

La Brea to Fairfax

Part 10:

The Strip

Part 11:

Whiskey

Part 12:

Garbage cans of Beverly Hills

Part 12.5:

Rodeo Drive

Part 13:

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Dead: Hollywood Forever

Part 14:

Bel-Air

Part 15:

UCLA, and an apology

Part 16:

Brentwood ... and the OJ Murder Walk!

Part 17:

Pacific Palisades

Part 17.5:

The Ranch That Jokes Built

Dead - Part 2: Westwood Village Memorial Park

Part 18

We end with self realization

Coda: The Getty Mansion

Up & Down a Lazy Concrete River

Up the Lazy Concrete River

Part 7 - From Johnny Carson to Warner Bros.

Part 8 - Toluca Lake

Part 9 - Wandering in the Wilderness

Part 9a - NOHO

Part 10 - Farmers Market

Part 11 - More Sherman Oaks

Part 12 - Sepulveda Dam

Part 13 - Reseda, Tarzana

Down a Lazy Concrete River

Part 1 - Chinatown

Part 2 - From Paris to Philly to Tokyo

Part 3 - The District District

Part 4 - The Backside of Los Angeles

Part 5 - Vernon

Part 6 - Five Towns

Part 7 - Four Towns, and Random

Part 8 - Where We Didn't See Coyotes

Part 9 - Farewell Compton, Hello Long Beach!

Part 10 - Bixby Knolls

Part 11 - The Last Leg

A Lazy Concrete River and Beyond

Twenty-six Miles Across the Sea

Wilshire Boulevard

Financial District, Westlake, Koreatown

Wilshire Center to Norma Desmond

Miracle Mile

Beverly Hills

Country Club and Condos

The Quick, the Slow, and the Dead

Route 66 Reversed

Part 1:

Route 66 Revisited and Reversed

Part 2:

Days 1, 2, & 3

Part 3:

The 66 Memorial, West Hollywood

Part 4:

Return to LA - Little Moscow - The Theater District

Part 5:

Silverlake, Again

Part 6:

"If you come to a fork in the road ... take it"

Part 7:

The 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade

Part 8:

66 North - Highland Park to Pasadena

Part 9:

66 South - El Sereno, Montecito Heights, Monterey Hills

Part 10:

The Doo-Dah Parade

Part 11:

Colorado Boulevard

Part 12:

Santa 'Nita Ladies Sing Dis Song

Disneyland

and California Adventure

Part 1:

John and Lee’s Idiosyncratic, Peripatetic, Unscientific Panegyric to Disneyland and California Adventure

Part 2:

California Adventure

Part 3:

Holiday Season in the Magic Kingdom

Part 4:

Visit #6

Part 5:

California Adventure Revisited

Part 6:

A Walk-on Day at the Parks

Part 7:

Pixarland

Part 8:

Walt Disney Treasures

Part 9:

This entry is several months old

Part 10:

Last Disneyland

Hollyweird

- 2010 -

March 3, 2010: Shorts! 2009 Academy Award Short Film Nominees

April 14, 2010: Dog Pound of the Stars

- 2009 -

February 20, 2009: Shorts!

February 25, 2009: The Alex

April 14, 2009: Ex-Spector-ated!!!!

The Descanso Gardens

April 15, 2009: The Miracles Get a Star

April 16, 2009: George Harrison Gets a Star

August 3, 2009: Jules Verne in the Last Remaining Seats

- 2008 -

January 31, 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette

February 21, 2008 - 2007 Academy Award Short Film Nominees

March 17, 2008 - The Ides of March in Hollyweird

March 19, 2008 - St. Pat's Day at the Egyptian with the Rutles

March 29, 2008 - Angela Bassett ...

September 2, 2008 - Rudolph Valentino

November 13, 2008: A Hallowood Hollyween

- 2007 -

July 30, 2007 - Shakespeare in the Cemetery presents Hamlet

October 28, 2007 - The Day of the Dead

December 27, 2007 - Hollywood Stars - 2007

December 28, 2007 - Our Hollyweird Christmas

- 2006 -

March 1, 2006 - Hollywood Diary

March 5, 2006 - VARLEY PICKS UP AN OSCAR

November 16, 2006 - The Hood Ornament of Los Angeles

Hollywood Stars - 2006

December 11, 2006 - A Hollywood Day

VarleyYarns/News/Rants

- 2010 -

April 8, 2010: VarleyNews: Our Second Earthquake

May 30, 2010: Jeanne Robinson (March 30, 1948 - May 30, 2010)

August 9, 2010: Leaving LA

October 3, 2010: The War Is Over!!!!

- 2009 -

April 14, 2009 The Descanso Gardens

April 18, 2009: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

April 30, 2009: VarleyYarn: Dismal Thoughts: Part 1

May 20, 2009: Dismal Thoughts: Part 2 - The Little Helicopters That Couldn't

July 6, 2009: VarleyNews - How Shall We Honor Thee, O Michael?

July 12, 2009: We are really going to miss Charles N. Brown.

September 8, 2009: VarleyYarn - Old Dogs

October 27, 2009: VarleyNews: IRONTOWN BLUES by John Varley is #3 on io9's list of 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read

November 22, 2009: VarleyNews: Winners of the 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Award for "Outstanding body of work in the field of literature"

- 2008 -

February 27, 2008 - Oh, Shit! He's Running Again!

March 4, 2008 - ROLLING THUNDER in books stores!

March 11, 2008 - Hard Comparisons

March 11, 2008 - io9 Talks to John Varley about Climate Disaster and Space Opera

March 13, 2008 - An Open Letter to John Cleese

March 30, 2008 - ROLLING THUNDER now available at Diesel eBooks!

April 14, 2008 - The Shrub That Ate a House

April 28, 2008 - The BCAM at the LACMA

May 16, 2008 - Diary of a Male Fashion Model

May 26, 2008 - I'm a Martian Citizen!

June 2-3, 2008 - Land of 10,000 Plates - Part 1 & Part 2

July 18, 2008 - Hillside Cemetery

September 6, 2008: St. Francis Dam

September 10, 2008: Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

September 17, 2008: SF Signal asked Varley (and others) two questions:

September 25, 2008: The Gaean Trilogy is now available at Audible.com

September 29, 2008: Paul and Me

October 31, 2008: Happy Halloween from John and Lee

December 3, 2008: Headline at Boing Boing: Spider Robinson reads Varley's "Persistence of Vision"

- 2007 -

February 1, 2007 - Yesterday a great American died.

February 7, 2007 - Astronaut Blues

July 18, 2007 - Varley's desk is featured in this month's issue of The VERB, the ultimate reading service for writers, by writers.

July 22, 2007 - Results of Bush's Colonoscopy

September 6, 2007 - The Movie That Wouldn't Die

September 11, 2007 - Son of the Bride of the Movie That Wouldn't Die Returns!!!

October 5, 2007 - Movies Lee Didn't Want To See

October 18, 2006 - The Planetary Society is including "In the Hall of the Martian Kings," on a DVD to be sent to Mars on the Phoenix polar lander sometime next year.

December 21, 2007 - 2007 Xmas Card

- 2006 -

February 2, 2006 - Lightning Strikes Home: John Joseph Adams interviews Varley for Sci Fi Wire

March 2, 2006 - Science Fiction Book Club buys RED LIGHTNING

March 18, 2006 - VARLEY MARCHES FOR PEACE WITH MARTIN SHEEN!!!

April 6, 2006 - RED LIGHTNING in bookstores and online!

May 6, 2006 - Ace reissues OPHIUCHI HOTLINE.

June 5, 2006 - Paperback MAMMOTH now available in bookstores and online!

June 8, 2006 - Ann Coulter - An apology

July 1, 2006 - The Salt Lake County Library System has selected MAMMOTH as a nominee for their semi-annual Reader's Choice Award.

August 8, 2006 - Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Sheehan and the Robinsons

September 1, 2006 - Googols and Quarks

October 7, 2006 - Chill

December 26, 2006 - The Great Hollywood Blizzard of '06

- 2005 -

January 2005 – Nick Gevers at Science Fiction Weekly interviewed Varley by email December, 2004. Read it here

February 3, 2005 - Pray for the Pope

March 16, 2005 - The UP Series

March 20, 2005 - A Prayer for Congress

March 23, 2005 - Yea, though we drive through the Valley of Death

March 24-27, 2005 - Varley's Guest of Honor Speech

April 11, 2005 - Iceland: Threat or Menace?

April 22, 2005 - New Rules

May 2005 - Editor Tony Freixas at Tiger Heron Science Fiction & Fantasy Books picked THE JOHN VARLEY READER for its recommended reading list for this month

May 13, 2005 - #$%!ing Up!

May 24, 2005 - Cndnsd bks

June 22, 2005 - Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego: Varley read from and signed MAMMOTH

July 2005 – Shaun Farrell at FarSector.com interviewed Varley last month via email. Read it here