Jameson shot, pickle juice back.

It took three days of recovering before I could even look at this picture, but it was worth it (and I'll do it again).

(Casey's, Los Angeles - Downtown, on Grand at 6th - these were only $5 at happy hour)

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Hometown tourist.

80F in Los Angeles today.

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Jaywalker - hey, walker



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Where does the money from Los Angeles's $190 jaywalking tickets go?

2011 Resolution: a piece of fruit per day

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

echo sunset, pasadena ca

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

-Edith Wharton

stop and smell them, rose parade 2010

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man"

-Benjamin Franklin

true los angeles royalty

Happy Birthday, Rodney Bingenheimer, b.1947

aka Mayor of the Sunset Strip

cleansing by fire

“The feelings right now are difficult to describe. One of the hazards of monasticism throughout the centuries is we become attached to what we have or where we are. This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. This is a cleansing by fire.”

-Brother Brown, Mount Calvary Monastery

Monks Turn to Reflection With Monastery in Ruins from NYTimes.com

happy 100th to an LA original

love the one you're with

"The West side of Los Angeles has an even more dire problem: rat hoarding. Specifically by two elderly, never-married twin sisters, animal lovers who, as they grew too old to care for the dogs and larger animals they once took in off the streets, moved on to caring for the rats that appeared on their property. "
-Ransom Riggs, mentalfloss.com

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.

walnut wallpaper - a los angeles gem

How to Hang Wallpaper - eHow.com
Wallpaper Calculator - lowes.com
LA Times "It's Cool, Really" 4/14/2005

enjoy a stiff martini and rare steak like it's 1965

vista de la 405

don't hate

fashion over function