Condor Canyon

(click to quadruplify) Once again, a little sumpthin’ from the archives, taken at the south rim of the Grand Canyon that was remarkably and gloriously lousy with one of my favorite creatures on the planet on the last day of our 4,500-mile roadtrip in 2006. Susan and I had seen condors via binoculars a long …

Flash Fever

Anyone else relate to these odd symptoms I experienced yesterday? I had something of a widespread low-grade ache that spread across my back, shoulders, neck and head throughout the day that worsened into the evening hours. Shortly after I got home I felt the onset of a fever that partnered with the aching to leave …

Microfiction – 051/365

What is this about? Strange Heat “What happened.” “Jude’s dead. They all are.” “Dammit!” “But it was weird at first. To see them just standing there, twenty at least. They’d come around the bend and seen Jude out in front of the cave. They were watching him. Hungering for him, but didn’t attack. Just stood …

Noirvelist

It was last summer when I read Lucas Crown’s piece in Los Angeles Magazine about the enigmatic life and times and writings of his friend, novelist Mercedes Lambert who died in 2003 at the age of 55. It was last week when I went into the Border’s across from the office building where I work …

Microfiction – 050/365

What is this about? A Chili In The Air Here’s the thing. Forty hours ago give or take I’m cruising home from Canoga having wrapped my latest — a real high-concept piece of shit with a three-day shoot in an ungodly hot industrial building. If you don’t know what goes on in industrial buildings out …

Play Ball!

At the gathering of last weekend’s Watts Happening II Ride, friend, Blogdowntowner and fellow IAAL•MAF’er Eric Richardson told me just enough about the Los Angeles Baseball League tryouts he’s planning on attending this coming Sunday morning at L.A. Valley College to get me thinking I’m a-gonna go as well. I know: sillysauce. Especially since Eric …