Well, so far so good, I accomplished a buncha things on my Do List yesterday, the nicest of which was hiking up to the top of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook with Susan and enjoying the spectacular views, be it wall-to-wall wide angled or a bit more up-close as in of this busy bee docking …
If you read my somewhat cryptic first entry, “Scavenge some long-coveted discarded wood,” in the previous post listing my errands on tap this weekend, let me ‘splain. I’m a sucker for big pieces of wood. Don’t know why, but when I see a header beam or a railroad tie or something of that nature I …
Somewhat in no particular order: Scavenge some long-coveted discarded wood with Susan (more on that later if successful, or not) – DONE Take Susan up to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (since the scavengable wood is nearby) – DONE Have breakfast up there – DONE Buy new deadbolts and use them to replace the existing …
The headline caught my eye because it specifies the murder occured downtown. Then the first paragraph identifies the neighborhood as Jefferson Park and the second pinpoints it in the 3700 block of South Normandie near 37th Street, which as the crow flies is about as downtown as Koreatown or Boyle Heights — except even farther …
I marvel at the miniaturizing effect of tilt-shift photography, but never enough to figure out the steps and motions I have to go through to craft my own. Now I don’t have to because there’s tiltshiftmaker.com. You simply upload a photo, such as I did with this iPhone crapsnap from my seat at Staples Center …
As one of the 8,750 people selected out of the million-plus who submitted requests for tickets to the Michael Jackson Public Memorial Tuesday, I attended the July 7, 2009 event at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Though very much a life-long fan of Michael Jackson, I went somewhat cynically to observe the spectacle. But …
Having the good fortune to be one of 8,750 out of the million-plus who requested tix, I just got back from biking over to Dodger Stadium to pick up the necessary ornamentation and documentation to permit me enter the Kingdom of Jackopalooza tomorrow.