How’d He Do That?

So a couple days ago I decided to have some e-fun for Halloween. Specifically, I built a mock L.A. Times web page with a news feature headlined “Legend of the haunted Griffith Park picnic table” that I posted and linked to from Blogging.la: [click here to go to the complete story] It’s not my first …

Carving Party

Susan and I aren’t frequent party givers… in fact the last time we had people over to the house for an organized thing was our post-wedding reception in June 2005. So when Susan said she wanted us to host a pumpkin carving party I was all for it, especially when she decided that the menu …

Dead Can Dance

Last year my sweetie and I experienced Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” celebration for the first time. For this year’s festivities we decked ourself out muertos-style. Flickr photoset from the evening is here.

Night & Day

At the request of reader Paul to show our backyard vista in the daytime I went out this morning and just before 8:30 a.m. snapped this shot of it from the same vantage point as the ones taken a couple nights ago and seen in my previous post: In the daylight I was very pleasantly …

Cleared For Landing… Or Take-Off

The owners of the property two doors north of us just unblocked our view from the backyard by cutting down two large trees from their front yard, leaving Sunset Boulevard looking like a runway for any flights of fancy I might wish to take: [Larger sizes here and here]

Charmed, I’m Sure

I’m having some because I’m a caffeine addict, but I certainly don’t need any coffee right now. The remnants of the adrenaline that rushed through my system at 6:17 this morning is enough to keep me w-i-d-e awake. That’s when The Phoenix suffered a spectacular blowout of its rear innertube. In and of itself a …