Friday Afternoon
Out in the backyard this afternoon hanging with some of our animals is a good way to begin the Memorial Day weekend: Â 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 …
The Man In The White Linen Suit
You might recall my April post detailing the saga of the linen suit my mother purchased for me as an early birthday present. Well enough with the words, there’s some pixels of the outfit with the blue linen shirt from J. Peterman and the white Johnson & Murphy bucks with me cleaned up and inside …