Picture This

Dear Olympus, The only thing keeping me from unleashing an all-out, multiple-front complaint assault about the pathetic level of customer service you’ve provided me in regards to the broken digital camera I sent you for repairs at the end of April is the fact that I didn’t pay for the unit in limbo. That’s right, …

Friday Afternoon

Out in the backyard this afternoon hanging with some of our animals is a good way to begin the Memorial Day weekend:  Hope yours is safe and sane wherever you may be.

Don’t Trifle With The Eiffel

I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said and better about the Eiffel’Tower other than regardless of all the pictures and footage you’ve seen of it nothing can quite prepare you for how totally massive and dominating it is once you get on under and up in it. Susan and I voted unanimously not …

Lost Purges The Payroll

Couple days late in tapping my keyboard about the season finale of Lost in large part because of the vast number of characters made dead. I almost can’t count that high. And if the episode’s still sitting on your DVR or VCR tape unwatched, move along because I gotta break down the massive carnage. Let’s …

A Star Wars Moment

My fellow Blogging.la contributor David Markland is psyched for the Star Wars Celebration beginning this Friday at the L.A. Convention Center, and wrote that he can track his desire to be a filmmaker back to when he saw the film and then the landmark “Making of Star Wars” special that aired on CBS back in …

Do You Sea What I Sea

So I haul out the my atlas just now to see a proper spelling of the Tyrrhenian Sea, where the image below of the sun rising over the western coast of Italy was snapped May 12 as we made our way to the port of Civitavecchia and then inland to Rome for the day, and …

There Were Giants In Those Days

Referencing the debate that’s continuing over on Blogging.la in conjunction with my L.A. Times column, L.A. City Nerd points out how the more things change the more they stay the same via this 110-year-old clip, a very short segment made on Spring Street in Los Angeles by Thomas Edison in 1897* showing the thoroughfare all …