One of the things I enjoy about LA is that there are so many different areas/cities/neighborhoods with such distinct personalities and they are all part of the LA metropolitan area -- and my daily experience. Take this weekend, for example. Yesterday I woke up in Westwood, had brunch in Larchmont, watched the sunset over Venice Beach to the sounds ( Read more... )

This is too cool for words! Anyone wanna look at stardust?

I am becoming very practical in my old age. At a lecture this evening, as soon as I heard someone referencing Habermas, my eyes rolled and my brain shut down, but not before thinking, "Oh how pedantic and pretentious ( Read more... )

Well, it is Valentine's Day and I have to say, I am very disappointed. Usually this time of year, zoos and aquaria are falling over themselves to post ridiculous little gems in the media about mating animals and animals celebrating V-Day. I love that stuff! But lately instead zoos are all death and despair and aquaria are all finance issues. All I ( Read more... )

Right now, all together I have sitting in the same chair, a Magic Cone, an ass Palm Pal and two viruses. All of these were presents from others. No, I'm not kidding. I have very sick friends. But my sense of what categories of objects should hang out together shoud make me an avant garde artist.

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I am a pack-rat. I hang onto the oddest things -- the top of a styrofoam cup, a defunct driver's license belonging to someone else, ticket stubs from every movie I've ever seen -- and sometimes I find them again at the most unexpected of moments ( Read more... )

Vehicular Archaeology ( Read more... )

The first time I tried on what I now refer to as my "beach shoes," I fell in love ( Read more... )

Sitting in the dark of my cozy room, watching the sky turn pink behind the bare trees. It actually feels like winter. Ahhhh.

This is one of those nights. The moon is hanging low in the western sky, peeking into my window. Soon I won't be able to see it anymore as it drops closer and closer to the horizon, dipping into the ocean and beyond ( Read more... )