Neon In L.A. (Los Altos)

Neon In L.A. (Motel)

Neon In L.A. (Asbury Apts.)

Neon In L.A. (Gaylord Apts.)

Neon In L.A. (El Coyote)

Full Moon Over Santa Monica Bay

Stairs (East Hollywood)

Chapel (Boyle Hts.)

Pasadena

Chanel

Fourth Street Bridge (North)

Fourth Street Bridge (South)

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It's Los Angeles 2007 although it looks like Cleveland 1964.

After The Fiesta

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El Rey Theater (June)

News Vendor On Broadway

Los Angeles Post Office Terminal Annex

Video of The Day: Pepe, a blind guitarist playing this morning at Hollywood's Farmers Market

Fireworks At Echo Park

I guess nothing burned down and no one got hurt but the fireworks last night at Echo Park made the place seem more like a war zone than a holiday event. And the ducks weren't too happy with it either.
A few more "Totally Unauthorized" videos here.

Full Moon Over MacArthur Park

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Fair At MacArthur Park

I don't imagine I'll be doing too much of this; most of my videos I'll be posting on YouTube. (Are there foot long catfish in the lake at MacArthur Park? Yes, there are. Go see.)
Many thanks to MortVark for the technical assistance.

Man In Money Hat

Brooms In Echo Park

Three Murals In Boyle Heights

Mural With Thunderbolt

Mural With Child

These murals can be found at the Pan American Bank, First and Townsend. Muralist is Jose Reyes Meza of Mexico.

Fourth Street Bridge

Car Wash (East Hollywood)

Emmett's Hands

Maria (Mexican Wedding)

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Double Shaft (East L.A.)

Last week, near the L.A. River, I came across a bridge that was being repaired. It appeared that one of the bridge's stanchions had been reinforced around the time that "Shaft" was in the movie theaters. Now, the reinforcements were being replaced and the many movie posters were again seeing the light of day. I've linked the entire wall of posters on my flickr site.

==>Friday Morning - Somehow, a worldwide photoblog has found The Jimson Weed Gazette and has linked it as one of its LA representative. Nice.

Magazines for the weekend: New York (I bought it for the Jim Cramer interview (with himself) but the whole thing looks interesting); The New York Observer (after having finished The New Yorker last night) and Shambhala Sun for its articles on meditation.

Star Wars Photo Op

I have no interest whatsoever in Star Wars but checking out their super-duper convention certainly made for an interesting afternoon.

Pico Blvd.

Strip Club on La Cienega

Empty Chair In An Empty Field

Crazy Kicking Horse

Crazy Kicking Horse ("Ten years in the penitentiary. Ten years in the penitentiary.") and his two buddies.

Yes, that's "Indian" tattooed across his chin and "Fuck You" across his throat.

Man On Sidewalk

Loco

Jerry Falwell

Jerry Falwell + Karl Rove = Bush = Iraq = squandered billions of $$$ and a hundred thousand casualties.

Our Lady Queen Of Angels

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Los Feliz Fire

I surreptitiously made my way up some side streets above Los Feliz until I came to Vermont. It was very dark due to the power outage although the smoke was bad only when the wind would change. Contrary to what I later heard an AM radio guy say, there wasn't "pandemonium", cars were of course leaving but there was no panic or drama. The worse part was when an ambulance came down the hill with sirens and lights at full force. Fire trucks would go up the street and later came down, headed somewhere else. At one point the silhouette of the fire was on both sides of me with the fire itself dead ahead.

Cemetery

Broken Stone

Angel Boy/Angel Girl

Woman and Cross

Cherub

"Ivory" In Santa Monica

"I'm on medication."

I'm eating Trader Joe's Seasoned Rack of Lamb.

I'm watching "On The Waterfront".

"BAGHDAD, May 2 – The Bush administration is planning to withdraw most United States combat forces from Iraq over the next several months and wants to shrink the American military presence to less than two divisions by the fall, senior allied officials said today.”

New York Times article
by Michael R. Gordon & Eric Schmitt
May 2, 2003

It's Cherimoya Season in S. California.

An easy fruit to overlook, it's got an unappealing murky green skin, a short growing season, too many seeds and its not cheap. But the custard-like fruit is delicious.

Put it in a fruit salad - one cherimoya (pitted), one sliced orange, one apple and one avocado, both cut into eights, topped with plain yogurt.

More John Fahey.

Russell In Beverly Hills

L.A. Is A Beautiful City

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Built in 1927, this building, located at Olympic and La Cienega, was originally a water treatment plant for the city of Beverly Hills. Restored in 1988 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it is now The Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study.

Win A Shiny New Dime!

Be the first person to correctly identify where this picture was taken and I will send you a shiny new dime.

Actually, this is more or less an experiment. Not having access yet to Photoshop (I'm bidding for a new one as we 'speak'), I'm using some free software - GIMP, which seems to work just fine.

**We have a winner - Fairfax, north of Beverly.***

At My Desk With Coffee (#14)

• If you're sending me e-mails, I'm not getting them. (New computer...incomplete data transfer...all 'round tech troubles that I have little or no ability to solve.)
• This morning I washed my kitchen floor at 7:45 and had Trader Joes chicken mini-tacos with peach salsa for breakfast.
• Also this morning I did my good deed for the day (I'll skip the details) and this evening at my door was a small bag containing a large can of baked beans and a small can of creamed corn. Kinda sweet but kinda ridiculous.
• I'm contemplating three double-features in three days. Tomorrow film noir at the American Cinematheque followed by Westerns at LACMA.

Saturday eve - slowly getting back up to speed. No Photoshop but I've got my e-mail running and Napster is back. Listening to Lightning Hopkins so things aren't too bad.

Feet, No Shoes And A Cane

April 6, 2007

Betty and Dahlia

They've been together for eleven years.