Grand, Just Grand

So last night Susan and I loaded up a canteen full of cheap red wine and brought along some bread, cheese, salami and olives to snack on at downtown’s California Plaza off of Grand Avenue before enjoying the Grand Performances presentation of China’s Guandong Modern Dance Company (reviewed nicely by Lewis Segal in today’s L.A. …

Young & Old

click to quadruplify Snapped this dead gas station building while on the fly on La Cienega just north of La Tijera coming back from a job fair near the airport yesterday afternoon. This isn’t my first time seeing the awesome installation of the bones-only version of the winged Mobil Oil mascot, but it was my …

Cactus Flower At Dusk

Much to my, surprise the photo I posted yesterday, which I justthisminute retitled “Three Minutes With Venus,” drew a pretty large and blessedly empathetic crowd (thanks again to Clifford at Asymptotia pointing at it and laughing — with me, not at me!). Not that I need to follow it up, but along the same lines …