Yeah so… as you can see things are progressing quite nicely within the confines of the backyard pumpkin patch, I first (and last) reported on at its very beginning August 20. Ten of the 14 seeds planted have risen. Except… I didn’t plant pumpkins. Apparently I planted butternut squash, instead. I make that admission based …
I’m sick of that handheld representative mass of honeybee doom sitting at the top of this blog, so now I’ve bumped it down with one of some happier times last May at a Matilija poppy at Vista Hermosa Park (click it for the bigger picture):
This time of year I can usually count on finding the occasional one maybe two dead bees in the vicinity of the patio table, but this morning the number of corpses (11 seen below, 17 total) concentrated in such a small area represented a cataclysmic and enigmatic die-off as far as our backyard is concerned: …
Twenty-six minutes of live footage of The Ramones at their motherfucking greatest rock ‘n roll band best during a 1977 performance at The Rainbow in London:
I was early on into my ride on the No. 14 Beverly Boulevard bus out from Historic Filipinotown to the Fairfax area body shop this afternoon to pick up Susan’s freshly repaired Ford, when this gentleman and his mannequin companion climbed aboard. Of course I tweeted about it with a pic attached and my friend …
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It’s orb weaver season. And while our front, back and side yards have become home to a bunch of average-sized specimens of the latest generation, I found the biggest of the bunch — easily with a two-inch leg span — and thankfully not strung across any walking path. Instead this magnificent, amazing creature’s web was …