Sigh. This is so pleasant.

AM - Agaveattenuata Mondaymorning

 

Twenty favorite things from two thousand ten.

Retrospective.

1. Making Time - The Creation
2. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool and D-Cup
3. Calabria 2008 - Enur
4. Bulletproof - La Roux
5. Carnival - The Cardigans
6. The Shining Path - RJD2
7. Hey Young World - Slick Rick
8. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
9. Intermission
10. Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
11. Fronteir Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
12. Maybe the People Would be the Times - Love
13. Richard Cory - Them
14. Jackson Cage - Bruce Springsteen
15. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
16. He War - Cat Power
17. Stage Fright - The Band
18. Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
19. You Gotta Move - RL Burnside
20. Home - LCD Soundsystem

welcome back, rain

resort living

little shack on the alley

porch life

take it into your own hands

Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area
by Joe Robinson
LATimes.com


There is no law against planting on city landscaping, except for ficus trees, whose roots wreck roads and sidewalks. The city discourages unapproved gardening but tries to work with road planters it discovers. "If you want to do this, my advice is to contact myself or the council person," says Arevalo. "We want to partner with people who care about where they live."


At a time of shrinking city budgets and skeletal landscaping staffs, it's a hint at where guerrilla gardening could go -- to approved brigades of citizen gardeners helping cities turn wasted space into food and flowers.

major tom?

Port of Long Beach as seen from outer space.
NASA Earth Observatory





Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports. Image ISS016-E-27162 was taken on February 4, 2008, using the 400 mm lens, providing superior resolution

government sponsored fitness

"The excellence of a man is a benefit to the public" - Proverb

a bath house in long beach, oh my

makes for an interesting habitat

wallpaper

long beach, i love you