The Cage Of Associations

So I chose today to be the day to go down to City Hall (by bike of course since it’s L.A.’s annual Bike To Work Day) and take care of the business license/tax money I owed because the city somehow couldn’t find me to collect so they shipped my account off to a collection agency …

Animal Farm

Susan and I made good on plans to participate in today’s annual Blessing of the Animals down at Olvera Street. So we decorated Buster the tortoise with flowers and had a blast! But instead of wasting keystrokes telling you how much fun it was, I’ll just point you to the photo set I created over …

Walking In L.A.

What with the dog walk and walking from and to the auto mechanic I caught a lot of things on foot today and blogged about ’em all on Blogging.la: the student protests while Shadow and I strolled along Sunset, a typo worth a chuckle on the way home from the mechanic’s, and a new work …

Under The Surface

I don’t even come close to suggesting I know my neighborhood or that I’m somehow deeply connected to it. I love where I live, but I’m too new here to catch some of the more sinister subtleties. Right now there’s what I see and am shown when I walk around my streets, and there’s a …