Checking Out the Book Festival

The L.A. Times Festival of Books has sneaked up on me -- and is taking place this weekend.

At the festival, we always look forward to checking out Angel City Press' booth, gawking at the long line at the Science Fiction booth, finding which star chef is at the cooking stage... and getting disturbed by that purple mess Barney at Target's reading stage.

Oh yeah, and somehow, we never fail to leave Westwood without a visit to Diddy Riese.