Not Just Any Tile

Not only won’t the square tile pictured in the photo below mean that much to some of you, but to make things worse I’m showing you its unfinished underside: Discovered while doing some labor after dismantling the rat cave I immediately knew this was no ordinary tile and upon flipping it over and reading the …

A Happy Ending?

As stated, I took the rat cave down today. Tentatively and trepidatiously I removed brick by brick until finally there was nothing left but the perimeter walls: With the able assistance of Susan shining  a flashlight onto the spot where I had deposited them last Friday I’m happy to report that it appears the mother …

The End Of The Rat Cave Is At Hand

After attentive review of last night’s archived video it has been determined to the best of my ability and based on the evidence accumulated over the past week that there ain’t nothing going on in there. Thus I am declaring the property condemned and am preparing for demolition. I’ll report back whatever I find inside.

The Decline & Fall Of Roam

One of my daily must-see sites Boing Boing has linked to an excellent article in London’s Daily Mail newspaper that explores how drastically less free-range we’ve allowed our children to become, as parents and guardians and technology restrict them to perimeters much tighter than their own when they were young. When George Thomas was eight …

It’s All In The Delivery

My baby got a trio of packages today. Just anybody might stack them up biggest to smallest or heaviest to lightest, but not me. I decided to arrange them a bit more creatively, just so: There I go again, making something outta nothing.

Many Bridges To Cross

Nice bike ride last night; a 13.5-mile route that I cobbled together via Gmaps for the IAAL•MAF’s previously pretty regular Thursday night downtown rides. With friends Stephen, Alice and Michael onboard we back-and-forthed the L.A. River over eight of the 10 bridges that span her from Washington Boulevard up to Broadway north of Chinatown: Washington …