I Heart GarageBand

I finally got goofing with Apple’s GarageBand application in the initial hope of creating an inaugural podcast… but at this microcosm of my life I find I have nothing to say, important or otherwise. So instead I started playing around with the program’s rich melody creation features and if I’m not careful I could become …

Dog Day Afternoon

Walking back from Echo Park Lake down Sunset with Shadow I found this gorgeous pitbull placidly holding down the backseat of its fort as we moved past, and I had to come back and grab a snap of him in all his huge-headed majesty: The uncropped, larger version is here.

Happy Birthday, Rodger!

Last night I got to do two things I’ve been wanting to do for awhile now: Have a drink at the historic Tam O’ Shanter in Atwater Village and meet Rodger “House” Jacobs of 8763 Wonderland who invited me there to help ring in his new year. I’d been an occasional visitor to his blog …

Goin’ Down

Sunday means weigh-in day. And hot damn if the scale didn’t register another five-pound drop putting me only five away from my first stage goal. If you’d told me I’d be removing 25 pounds in a mere nine weeks I woulda laughed with length and loudness. As I stand now at… 235 …the only component …

‘Tween Scenes

So yesterday I braved the bad weather and cowered from my common sense and included myself in the two-year birthday celebration for the Midnight Ridazz. I was joined by Mack Reed of L.A. Voice and we both went the route’s 12.6-mile distance ultimately soaked to the skin and borderline frostbitten in places but without insult …

No Speed Racer No!

Coming home from mom’s in Burbank yesterday I took the standard route home: Golden State Freeway to Fletcher to Silver Lake Boulevard. After making the right onto the last thoroughfare and getting up to the reservoir, I find in my rearview mirror from out of nowhere a spiffy new champagne-colored sports sedan right on my …