Photo Synthesissy

I’ve had it up to my aperture with the Photo Synthesis feature by Colin Westerbeck that appears each week in the West magazine that’s inserted into my Sunday L.A. Times. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a full-page column anchored by a piece of shutterbuggery that’s representative of some current gallery exhibit in town. …

A Day At The Beach

Well, we’re back from our boomerang trip across to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The traveling was easy and uneventful and on-time and while we were there we enjoyed an excellent unconventional “southern boil” feast for Thanksgiving with Susan’s folks who are within a stonecrab’s throw of a magnificent stretch of white sand and surf that’s …

Goin’ To Carolina

Susan and I are packed up and ready to head out waaaaaaay early Wednesday (6 a.m. flight) for a good old-fashioned “southern boil” Thanksgiving with her folks in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Be back Friday.

Go Git It!

Ranger and I had our afternoon backyard fetch caught on tape.

Festival Of Lights Bike Night

Putting aside that it’s not even “officially” the holiday season yet, and also putting aside that every other night of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Festival of Lights cyclists are categorically banned from enjoying the public light show, last night was the one-night-only bone thrown by LADWP and city officials to us …

How Not To Be A Bartender

So yesterday Susan and I head downtown to the Laemmle theaters on Fig north of Fourth to catch a matinee of “Casino Royale.” Unaccustomed to such gridlock-less convenience, we found ourselves with more than a half-hour before showtime and so went for a brief exploration of the Marriott Hotel, which sits atop the subterranean theaterplex. …