And That’s All I Have To Say About That
Best way to honor JD Salinger is to pay no attention to his demise. He would’ve wanted it that way.
Ballona Creek Under Overland 7:10 p.m.
(click for the bigger picture) The long afternoon’s worth of rain had passed before nightfall, and when I left work near 7 p.m. I was eager to see what increase there might be to Ballona Creek’s water level. The good news is it wasn’t enough to warrant the locking of the bikeway entrance gates. The …
SXSE & NXNE
Nah, that headline ain’t some sorta code. Just the general compass points I was facing when I snapped the following images in the vicinity of Dante’s View while on our way up to the top of Mt. Hollywood Saturday morning. What I’m taken most with is the fact that though the two shots were taken …
The Precious Pitter Patter Of “Pata Pata”
Honda has a cool TV ad campaign out for its new Crosstour vehicle. A couple of the spots feature fetching animation backgrounded by great songs. One is a jazztastic version of “Fever”, and the other I immediately recognized when I first heard it this weekend but couldn’t identify, and I certainly wouldn’t’ve known it by …
Portrait Of What I’m Sure Is An Otherwise Lovely and Considerate Elderly Couple Rolling A Stop Sign In Their Car As The Husband Waves At Me In Surprise After The Wife Yells At Him To Quit Driving Like An Idiot And Instead Make Some Effort To Obey Traffic Laws And Share The Road
Alternate Title: A Less-Attentive And Intuitive Cyclist Would Have Become A Momentary Hood Ornament Here’s the slow-mo video of the slow-speed encounter beginning when I proceed from my stop on 4th Street a couple blocks east of Western Avenue as the northbound vehicle crosses the intersection (worth noting in that first frame below how the …
Now That — I Say, That — Is What I Call Counter-Intelligent
Susan and I made good on vague plans suggested a couple weeks ago to forego our usual Saturday-morning porch time and get ourselves over to Griffith Park for a near-sunrise hike from the Observatory up to the top of Mt. Hollywood. It was my first time on pretty much any of GP’s trails since the …
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Stormwatch: Day 5
And on what’s expected to have been the last day of this week-long series of storms over Los Angeles, I measured an additional 0.375 inches, bringing the total accumulation to 2.71875 inches. And for my next trick I will measure the amounts that evaporate. Just kidding. The end.