When I was a teen growing up in Hollywood, the place I wanted to go everyday during the summer was the Fosters Freeze that was on the eastside of La Brea a few blocks south of Fountain for a large chocolate-dipped vanilla cone. Looooooooved them. More often then not I’d wind up at the ice …
I took Shadow out for a walk today hoping we’d squeeze it in between showers, but it didn’t work out that way and the dog and I got pretty soaked. Waterlogged though we were, I still kept an eye out for that one image which could capture the wet weather for me and I found …
I got confirmation today that one of my neighborhood’s fixtures, a colorful character who could regularly be found parading up and down Sunset Boulevard known as “El Circo Loco,” passed away last Friday evening. I first heard about it Saturday night when word circulated that he had been found dead on the street, but no …
Shadow this morning lounging on one of the boulders in the pocket park across Vendome from the Music Box Steps.
This morning’s rains forced a shortening of the usually walk I take with the dog. Instead of a big loop around the neighborhood, we kept it to the neighboring block and included a detour down the alley Susan and I explored a couple weekends or so. The good news is that someone mowed and chopped …
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Walking up Maltman today I found a new granddaddy (see image below) of my current curb-level fixation with concrete carvings, which I dubbed Streetfiti in my post a couple days ago over on Blogging.la. I’ve even gone and created a public Streetfiti Group over on Flickr to post my growing collection of snapshots like this …
I just finished Dangerous Beauty, by Mark Ross. It is a compelling read that details his dreams and nightmares as a safari guide in Africa. Throughout the majority of the book Ross highlights events and encounters from some of the unique tours he has conducted in the game parks of Tanzania and Kenya, but it …