What is this about? The Doublecross The 747 lumbered across the sky as dozens do every day. As it descended towards the airport it passed behind the office tower next door and only its tail was visible above the roof line reminding Patrik of a shark’s dorsal fin. A moment later the whole bird came …
(click to quadruplify) Just a random photo upload to break up the text monotony — this one being one of the first photos I took upon arrival with Susan at the Serengeti in Tanzania during our everything-we-could-ask-for African honeymoon odyssey in the summer of 2005. Their attentions were toward a solitary warthog whose scent this …
What is this about? The Deck Of course, the bottle of Merlot he’d nearly emptied wasn’t making it too hard to unwind. But it was an unwinding that was long overdue. Blinking himself out of his tipsy daze and turning his head south, Harlan stared at the tops of downtown’s tallest skyscrapers, backlit in the …
L.A. Blogfather and L.A. Times Blogmaster Tony Pierce has a picture I presume he took posted to his Busblog of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who in the frame I presume is in the midst of getting an assist with his new L.A. Times blog that Tony helped land — and all of which is awesome. Tony’s proximity …
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(click to quadruplify) Ranger alerted us to one of our local opossums being out on the roof of the house to the north of us, so I busted out camera and the million-candlepower light — which Susan shined on it — to catch it hanging out. People hate ’em. I hate people who …
What is this about? The Krylon Killer Clark stood seething but silent several feet behind the unsuspecting tagger rattling the can of black spray paint before the whimsical mural on Mohawk just off Sunset, the centerpiece of which features two cartoonish chickens in love. It was one of Clark’s favorites. At first, before he had …
(click to quadruplify) Actually the horizon pictured is more than two years old, taken from the last whale-watching expedition I went on with my friend Cybele back in January 2006. I offer it up mainly as a random grab from my archives, but also one very weather-appropriate: it was warm enough today to wish I’d …