Of Prowling Trespassers & Punk Taggers

Wow. This morning was a double whammy full of assholes. At 5:20 a.m., Ranger started barking her “this is for real” bark and sure enough after bolting from bed and looking out the bedroom window there was a shady looking creep casually walking the brick walk on the north side of the house like he …

Dear Butt Head,

Hi. Question for you: Are those cigarette butts yours?  They’re mostly Camels, but there’s a lone Marlboro among them. Go ahead, click the pic to take a larger look. I’ll wait. The reason I ask is that as part of my regularly scheduled yard work this morning — done because I take pride in my …

A Wander-Around Ride

Yesterday as an excuse to get out with the new Olympus camera I went wandering through Silver Lake, Los Feliz Village and down by the river side, with an extended chill session at the water’edge:

Fearless

Armed but with her curiosity and a yellow baloon a young lady passing by keeps a watchful eye on a Sunset Boulevard mural monster in Silver Lake (click it for the bigger picture):

Best Seat On The House

It’s a given I’m a nut, right? I mean, I don’t have to kualify my krazee, do I? I preface with that rhetorical because today while people all around me are moaning the organizer-driven and city-ordered demise of what was to have been this weekend’s Sunset Junction Festival, I did something I’ve long wanted to …

Spotting Scope Timelapse: Sunset Boulevard

For no good reason and/or the hell of it (using duct tape and earthquake hold) I managed to secure my cam lens to my backyard spotting scope eyepiece, which I then pointed at Sunset Boulevard between Micheltorena and Maltman in Silver Lake for the following two-minute timelapse of traffic. Maltman’s about two-thirds of a mile …