My favorite symphony is Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” also known as his 4th Symphony. I discovered it as a 7th grader when my mother put the record she had of it on the old Admiral Hi-Fi with the pull down turntable in the dining room of our apartment at 1933 Holly Drive in Hollywood. Though at …
Part of our renovation is involving a whole bunch of concrete getting poured into a hole dug out deep from under the center our house onto which will be secured additional posts that will brace up under the first floor beams providing mooooooore than enough additional structural support to hold up the new bathtub we’re …
I’m doing some pre-spring cleaning/reorganizing and I came across a copy of the paper from the day my daughter was born in 1989, and for fun (and sadness) compared it in size to a more recent edition I saved for posterity as well. The 1989 Times masthead for Thursday, September 7, 1989, boasts a circulation …
I won’t dilute things with an over explanation here other than to say I was out in the backyard this past weekend and to my astonishment I found new life springing vitally forth from a decrepit cactus pad hanging over the fence that taught me a lesson in perseverance. See for yourself:
So yeah, that’s the aftermath of the accident I witnessed at 3rd and Commonwealth this morning. The driver of the blue Subaru was turning left from 3rd to go south on Commonwealth when it was struck by the beige Ford coming east on 3rd. I rolled up on the scene to help and called 911 …
So with the astounding recovery of my lost camera memory card yesterday comes various documentationings of a Saturday full of bikes, first at the LA Bike Summit at LA Trade Tech, and second at the Hope Rides Again event in Hollywood. I didn’t go as crazy with the camera at the former as I did …
Earlier this week I lost a brand spankin’ new fangled audio recorder to some churchgoing thief that I had left regretably unattended for a few minutes, tempering what had been an enjoyable visit for an organ recital at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Yesterday, an otherwise fantastic day has been shaded by a …