I’m still not 100 percent, but taking it easy today definitely put be back into the low 80s — healthy and ambulatory enough to slather some makeup on my mug and join my wife in the annual Dia De Los Muertos festival at Hollywood Forever, and it was by far my favorite of the previous …
The smoke-filtered harvest moon as seen from Silver Lake this morning just before 7 a.m. (click to doublify): Â Â Shine on, baby!
So last week I was all “gung-ho: get your flu shot on,” and subsequently walked that walk Wednesday. As is a risk of getting innoculated against such things there is the chance one might experience side effects such as a low-grade fever and such. If they manifest they usually dissipate in 24 – 48 hours. …
You might remember back during the heatwave that baked L.A. at the end of August/beginning of September on a half-assed whim I risked my aged laptop and digital camera putting them up on the roof of the house under the full day’s unrelenting sun and triple digit temps and came away with a pretty cool …
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I’ve been stewing over this since reading it in yesterday’s L.A. Times. Between the latter part of November and the end of December every year the DWP’s Festival of Lights shines in Griffith Park in all its kitschy kooky glory. And every year the traffic congestion and emissions spew resulting from people clogging neighboring streets …
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In my history as a native, I can’t recall a Santa Ana winds event in the fire season where it so decidedly blew like crazy everywhere except where I am. And the results are devestating: 15,000 acres burned in the Agua Dulce fire; 12,000 in Castaic 4,00o in East Orange County, 1,200 in Malibu. In …
After stopping at a decidedly unfulfilling Halloween store on San Fernando Boulevard, Susan and I beat a path to Stats in Pasadena where we proceeded to spend waaaaaaay too much money on ghouls and goblins and tombstones and strobe lights and stuff to decorate the front yard with this October 31st. This fiendish fellow’s my …