Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Skull-diggery
Found on the front of Monkeyhouse Toys store on Silver Lake Boulevard (click to triplify):
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Microfiction - 027/365
What is this about?
Reinforcements, Part II
The copters swept in low over the mansion and nightsun lights momentarily lit up the study. Harris briefly surveyed the corpse before him then leaned against the desk, grabbing Sheridan’s Blackberry.
Up and out of the room, Harris looked through a window at the end of the hall and [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
The Wright Stuff
Last opened to the public 16 years ago, you can bet when I heard a couple weeks ago that a tour was being offered at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House (aka “La Miniatura”) in Pasadena I didn’t waste much time getting two tickets for Susan and I today to see this remarkable piece of Southern [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Microfiction - 026/365
What is this about?
Reinforcements
Sheridan tried to sit up again and speak, but was overcome by his lungs slowly filling up with blood and succumbed to a horrible series of coughs. From somewhere behind that terrible sound came that of a helicopter — maybe two — coming into range, and getting louder.
“Ah,” Sheridan sighed with [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Them Thar Hills
(click for full-stylized quadrification)
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Pumpkin: Dah Chilla On Dah Pilla
(click to quadruplify)
Saturday, 7:05 a.m.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Microfiction - 025/365
What is this about?
Bookstore Memories
“When did that great old Coca-Cola sign disappear?”
“You mean the one on the south side of the street?”
“Yeah, near the Supply Sergeant.”
“Man, I dunno. Years ago.”
“That’s a shame.”
“Tell me about it. You remember the old Pickwick Bookstore?”
“Vaguely.”
“At Las Palmas.”
“Yeah.”
“There was a White Castle and The Gold Cup coffee shop on [...]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
God May Be Your Copilot…
…But neither of you can park for shit:
While certainly one of the least egregious of the legion of out-of-bounds parking tards I’ve had to deal with (in fact this car took the place of a far worse offender who we had towed last night), this Honda’s license plate just might make take the prize [...]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
A Break In The Action
A bit of blue sky broke through early yesterday afternoon. Then it went away for the rest of the day (click to quadrify):
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Microfiction - 024/365
What is this about?
Inspired By Actual Events, Part II
Biking home in the rain at night was foolish. Idiotic. Fourteen miles to ride and he was already fully saturated by the time he’d taken side roads to get off the gridlocked and waterlogged main avenues up to Ballona Creek where Sepulveda Boulevard passes over it.
That [...]
