Gladys Knight & the Pips, “Midnight Train to Georgia” Albert Hammond, “It Never Rains in Southern California” Bob Seger, “Hollywood Nights” Guns N’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle” Dionne Warwick, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” By my count, that’s two songs where the singer got chewed up by L.A., one where it […]
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Photographed in September in Runyon Canyon.
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Greetings from sunny California.
posted 26 April 2013 in Photos. no comments yet
My apologies for the grain: this was taken from my car and then cropped down, but I thought the license plate was remarkable. In case it’s not clear, that’s a BMW featuring the vanity license plate HAMLET, with the A replaced by a star symbol. For me, that sums up a lot of life in […]
posted 21 September 2012 in Photos. no comments yet
Photographed this morning on the bike path next to the L.A. River. The river, for once, was not totally dry. But it’s still goofy to have a bike path between a concrete channel and a major freeway–it feels like a parody of the great outdoors.
posted 30 December 2011 in Photos. no comments yet
I love having mysteries in my daily life, but I’m even happier when they get explained. Exit Through the Gift Shop provided me with a narrative for a lot of the mysterious street art and billboards I had been seeing during my first couple of years living in Los Angeles (although I’m still not certain […]
posted 16 August 2011 in Links. 1 comment
Taken on the field yesterday, about 25 minutes before the Dodgers started playing the Mets.
posted 8 July 2011 in Photos. no comments yet
Two and a half years after my last butterfly photo, it seems like time for another one. This one was taken in March, in Runyon Canyon.
posted 27 May 2011 in Photos. no comments yet