Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I sing of the body electorate
A few weeks ago, I got to visit the capital building in Lansing, Michigan. Not only was the building super cool, but the experience made me want to go and visit the Californian state capital building immediately.
If Californians truly see the United States as something like this:
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it took me several seconds […]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I see dead people
I saw a lot of dead people last week–mostly because I’ve discovered hulu.com and the entire first season of Bones.
It’s an interesting show in that it places death, specifically rotting, gooey, slimy, violently abused corpses on an elegant, scientific and hygenic table for the viewing enjoyment of the audience. The lovely Emily Deschanel runs her […]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Look Out: It’s the Attack of the Giant Squid!
That’s right, you heard me. The giant Humboldt squid, which mostly lives in low oxygen columns of water is edging its way closer to the LA coast and shallow ends of the sea. Feeding, in what are rightfully OUR commercial fishing grounds. Ugh!
What could be the cause of this mayhem??
“Oxygen-starved waters are expanding in […]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Rattlesnake Park
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Glow 2008
Last Saturday I headed to the Santa Monica pier (at about 11:30pm) to check out Glow, the light-and-technology art/music festival put together on the beach.
Some of the art was kind of cool but in retrospect I’m beginning to believe that the event itself was the real art piece, featuring up to 44,000 people (that’s not […]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Did you know…
My fellow blogger AH is getting to know all about wines and cheeses. When we met up last week to discuss the “state o’ the blog,” she brought excellent goodies found in the aisles of Whole Foods at a wine tasting seminar. Actually, Whole Foods, the latest and greatest and more expensive organic store hereabouts, […]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Aliens in Los Angeles
I get nervous about showing people around Los Angeles, especially those who live outside of the United States. I think it has much to do with the fact that Los Angeles is an urban anomaly. It is one of the most visually represented cities in the world — whether through iconography, as sets in movies […]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Forbidden Fruit
With more than 600 Starbucks cafes closing, the once ubiquitous coffee stop is now calling me. I don’t set foot in a Starbucks if I can help it. Who would want to be like the crowd and drink what everyone else drinks?
On a similar note, my fellow blogger in crime has made me set a […]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Censorious
A while back, I posted about the deeply dark times at the LA Times newspaper, and I also posted a link to the website of an anonymous journalist. This anonymous journalist, who is a staffer at the Times, has taken it upon him or herself to log about the destruction of a once great newspaper […]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A of <3’s
There was a time, a week or two I should say the card eluded me. I was intuitively chasing it. At the time I had sculpted the perfect man in mind. The replacement. The ONE or at least the next one.