A little over a year ago my friend Stephen Roullier introduced me to Blue Star Restaurant, a retroasis in the middle of a scrap metal wasteland south and east of downtown, and since then I’ve gone to no place more times for Saturday morning/early afternoon eats, in large part because the grillmaster there rustles up …
Sorry for the redundancy. I blame Ranger. Who snores, by the way.
This was the sunflower whose main bloom that the renegade squirrels took left me shaking fists at the rascally rogues. But one of the beautiful aspects of sunflowers is when they lose their heads, often times they’ll just shrug off the setback and make more. In this case, this subsequent flower pictured is one of …
The supposed HD video capability of my iPhone doesn’t translate well to YouTube, but I did my best the capture the thundering herd of helicopters that passed over our house this afternoon and inspired me to go a bit acapella with the “Apocalypse Now” soundtrack. Apologies for that. UPDATE (7.28): Commenter Frank sets me straight. …
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You can click to gigantize this roughly knitted panorama of a series of stills that capture the hundreds of people gathered prior to the start of the walk Sunday afternoon. The news has landed. The coroner’s office has ruled today what many people feared and some will refuse to believe, that Silver Lake’s beloved Walking …
Just amazing how a community can come together. When I turned the corner yesterday afternoon and came upon the hundreds of people gathered at the Silver Lake Recreation Center, there for a walk organized to honor and remember Dr Marc Abrams — Silver Lake’s indefatigable “Walking Man” — I choked up at such a wondrous …