Friday, November 06, 2009
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Epiphanies. Captured.
If the shutter clicks at just the right moment, you may actually see the rays of inspiration as they strike the recipient from on high.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Pinocchio J Blige
I know this is supposed to be a touching moment, but this is some unfortunate placement for the Play button on CNN's video player.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dr. Jebediah Drinkwell's
I made the checkout guy at Trader Joe's laugh tonight by saying that this wine looks like it was aged in casks lined with old hippies.
It may be that name, hearkening back to the 70's crunchy granola naming motif (now adopted by steampunk authors everywhere) ... Or it may be the Dr's blacklight-poster-ready irridescent hair and beard.
Horrifying Spidercake
As seen at Porto's in Glendale.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Oh it's so true.
via google.com
From Toothpaste For Dinner. The new ubiquitous restroom sound is the rasp of the Blackberry clickwheel.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Territory BBQ
Nothin' says good BBQ like skull-girdled iguanas.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Show your fangs, Sir Stripesalot!
The Meat-Eating Zebras of Presidio Heights as imagined by the chalk artists of Peets Coffee on California and Laurel.
I may have found a new avatar.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Eagle Rock Music Festival
More unknown bands than you can shake a stick at, and a surprising amount of folks.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
My morning ...
... Has been graced with Babylonian pachyderm acolytes.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Blacklight villains
Gotta watch your back in my neighborhood.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Friday, September 25, 2009
What to do 'bout the Flu!
via startribune.com
James Lileks shares some helpful pro tips on how to deal with the Flu season that recently hove into view.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
See what's behind the trees?
At a meeting - noticed that I'm spittin' distance from a local landmark.
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Hideous Dead Eyed Impy Chimp
via lileks.com
From lileks.com/bleat - this thing looks like it's just itchin' to chew your face off.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Adverbingly annoying
I don't understand this - unless we're verbing Chamomile ... As in, "He quietly chamomiled up the stairs."
A couple grizzled critters
via google.com
From Neato Coolville: I'm surprised at the weight of the chain that's attached to that rough looking hawk. Guess the fellow in the overalls doesn't want to risk losing that bird - either to theft or to flight.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
C.H.I.
Cationic Hydration Interlink Infra Treatment - this doesn't sound like a hair product, it sounds like an interrogation method used by the KGB
Vandalism (sort of)
Someone took the time to scrawl this into the cement. Hilarious!
Sent from my iPhone - please pardon my lack of nuance.
Friday, September 11, 2009
The Birthday Organist
Thomas playing a working pump organ at the Edison on his birthday. We were making up Sigur Ros lyrics as he massacred Glossolli. Made me wish we could have killed the house music in that room.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Songstresses in Sherman Oaks
Nice music and two fingers of Knob Creek makes for a pleasant September evening.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Experiment Perilous
Ted Beam got this for me as a belated birthday present. According to Sally Benson of the New Yorker, it's "shot with chills and a ghastly premonition of disaster ... Written with great vitality and sureness and, most important of all, with delicacy and humor."
Harper's Magazine says it's "a delightful and highly civilized horror story of love and beauty and terror in the Murray Hill district of New York. A tale of hair-raising and thoroughly pleasing tension and suspense."
Harper's Magazine says it's "a delightful and highly civilized horror story of love and beauty and terror in the Murray Hill district of New York. A tale of hair-raising and thoroughly pleasing tension and suspense."
I think it looks rad and a half.
Sent from my iPhone.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Zombie Village
Once upon a time, this existed in Oakland, CA. I haven't looked for pics yet, but that's a killer ad. Spotted in the men's restroom of a local eatery.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Asymmetrical Lighting
What would otherwise be a uniform hallway at the criminal justice building now feels sloppy due to the random light panels that are on or off. I can't imagine how blindingly bright it would be if they were all on, though, so perhaps it's a blessing.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Beyond the Starts
Methinks they didn't consider the fact that their spangley apostrophe looks like a "T"
Monday, January 19, 2009
Viney Cherub
Seen on my walk with the pups today. This baby dryad emerges from the neighbor's hedge ready to wrap it's fledgling vines around an unsuspecting squirrel or two. I kept my distance, lest he mistake me for one.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Crema!
Do you drink espresso? Do you pay attention to the latest snobbery surrounding espresso? Machines, shops, mugs, beans, brewing times, etc etc etc? Then you've heard it said that the sign of a good espresso is the crema - the foamy, beige stuff that floats on top of your shot o' concentrated caffeine.
Well I've got news for you, bucko. Why pay through the nose for 1 oz of high-pressure bean extract when you can have a mugful for cheap? Behold!
My instant coffee has a crema! Granted, it's not flawless what with the oil bubbles, but it does have that "tiger striping" so coveted by the espresso drinker in the know and . . .
Do I detect the sound of massive screeching brakes being applied? Perhaps you, faithful reader, are aghast at my comparison of instant coffee to espresso. How can you drink that swill, you may ask? Believe me, I asked myself the same thing when I bought it for a backpacking trip - but this ain't your grandpappy's Taster's Choice.
This is coffee extruded from the veins of 100% Columbians (and then subsequently freeze-dried). I give you . . .
Trader Joe's 100% Columbian Instant Coffee. Try it and you'll see. Depending on the volume of "grounds" you add to the water, it's just like drinking an entire mug of espresso - only with less jitters (and cost). Granted, my viewpoint may be a bit skewed since I'm on my third cup of the day, but nevertheless - this calls for a side-by-side comparison!
Next steps: making an instant coffee cappuccino. Or Insta-Cap.
Do you drink espresso? Do you pay attention to the latest snobbery surrounding espresso? Machines, shops, mugs, beans, brewing times, etc etc etc? Then you've heard it said that the sign of a good espresso is the crema - the foamy, beige stuff that floats on top of your shot o' concentrated caffeine.
Well I've got news for you, bucko. Why pay through the nose for 1 oz of high-pressure bean extract when you can have a mugful for cheap? Behold!
My instant coffee has a crema! Granted, it's not flawless what with the oil bubbles, but it does have that "tiger striping" so coveted by the espresso drinker in the know and . . .
Do I detect the sound of massive screeching brakes being applied? Perhaps you, faithful reader, are aghast at my comparison of instant coffee to espresso. How can you drink that swill, you may ask? Believe me, I asked myself the same thing when I bought it for a backpacking trip - but this ain't your grandpappy's Taster's Choice.
This is coffee extruded from the veins of 100% Columbians (and then subsequently freeze-dried). I give you . . .
Trader Joe's 100% Columbian Instant Coffee. Try it and you'll see. Depending on the volume of "grounds" you add to the water, it's just like drinking an entire mug of espresso - only with less jitters (and cost). Granted, my viewpoint may be a bit skewed since I'm on my third cup of the day, but nevertheless - this calls for a side-by-side comparison!
Next steps: making an instant coffee cappuccino. Or Insta-Cap.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Boardwalk and Pikes Place
Oi, I'll tell ya right now. Starbucks' new "Pike Place" roast doesn't get any better by being Decaf.
And yet I wanted decaf coffee. And it was my only option that came with wifi on site. Peet's is across the street, but they don't have the Webs. I stood on the corner torn, laptop hanging heavy on my shoulder. A book would have tipped the scales in Peet's' favor, but I've just finished two and haven't replenished.
Hence, I write and roll my overtaxed tastebuds around the surface of my scalded tongue.
Ok, in all honesty, it's not the worst coffee. I have a coworker who brews the worst coffee. If someone could summon enough drool to fill an entire coffee carafe, and that same someone drooled 12 cups of drool over a spoonful of coffee grounds, that would be a strong version of the "coffee" he brews when he gets his mitts on the coffee maker first. I've banned him from making coffee unless he KNOWS beyond a SHADOW OF A DOUBT that he's going to be the only person in the office all day.
Back to Pikes Place. It has this peculiar brewed-in-a-balloon "synthetic rubber" finish that not even 100% half & half can cut. And isn't 100% half & half an oxymoron? No? Well, it ought to be.
I'm thinking about getting a warm-up. They're battening down their hatches at the mo' - maybe they'll give it to me for free. Why I want another cup of Reebok-insole-filtered coffee is beyond my ken. Maybe it's because I paid for the first one, and frankly, I didn't get enough unleaded bang for my (star)buck.
[Update: It was free]
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Now playing: Up, Bustle & Out - Coffee Contamination
via FoxyTunes
Oi, I'll tell ya right now. Starbucks' new "Pike Place" roast doesn't get any better by being Decaf.
And yet I wanted decaf coffee. And it was my only option that came with wifi on site. Peet's is across the street, but they don't have the Webs. I stood on the corner torn, laptop hanging heavy on my shoulder. A book would have tipped the scales in Peet's' favor, but I've just finished two and haven't replenished.Hence, I write and roll my overtaxed tastebuds around the surface of my scalded tongue.
Ok, in all honesty, it's not the worst coffee. I have a coworker who brews the worst coffee. If someone could summon enough drool to fill an entire coffee carafe, and that same someone drooled 12 cups of drool over a spoonful of coffee grounds, that would be a strong version of the "coffee" he brews when he gets his mitts on the coffee maker first. I've banned him from making coffee unless he KNOWS beyond a SHADOW OF A DOUBT that he's going to be the only person in the office all day.
Back to Pikes Place. It has this peculiar brewed-in-a-balloon "synthetic rubber" finish that not even 100% half & half can cut. And isn't 100% half & half an oxymoron? No? Well, it ought to be.
I'm thinking about getting a warm-up. They're battening down their hatches at the mo' - maybe they'll give it to me for free. Why I want another cup of Reebok-insole-filtered coffee is beyond my ken. Maybe it's because I paid for the first one, and frankly, I didn't get enough unleaded bang for my (star)buck.
[Update: It was free]
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Now playing: Up, Bustle & Out - Coffee Contamination
via FoxyTunes
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Sen-tea-ments
I discovered this bit o' wisdom on my tea bag yesterday.
That's nice and all. Apparently, the following also holds true:
"An attitude of gratitude brings platitudes"
. . . assuming the tea-proverb author(ess) lives a life of thankfulness. I'd imagine that's a prerequisite to work at Yogi Tea. What exactly is being thanked is another matter entirely.
I discovered this bit o' wisdom on my tea bag yesterday.
That's nice and all. Apparently, the following also holds true:
"An attitude of gratitude brings platitudes"
. . . assuming the tea-proverb author(ess) lives a life of thankfulness. I'd imagine that's a prerequisite to work at Yogi Tea. What exactly is being thanked is another matter entirely.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
I just got a phone call a moment ago from Wells Fargo informing me that since I'm a valued customer of theirs, I can try out million dollar life insurance FREE for 60 days. If I'm not completely satisfied, I can cancel within those 60 days and I owe nothing.
Wow. Free!!
Wow.
That's . . . um . . . great. How does one "try out" life insurance for sixty days, exactly?
I guess there are several different options, really:
1.) I can die and be completely unhappy with the million dollars and then cancel.
2.) I can feel a general sense of lack of protection (I need TWO million dollars! to be truly comfortable) and then cancel.
3.) I can imagine what it would be like to have to pay the monthly fee, feel unhappy about that fantasy malaise, and then cancel.
4.) I can keep it.
Life insurance doesn't lend itself to a trial membership like a lot of other places. Say . . . Netflix, for instance. I did a trial membership with them and found that I used them so I kept the service. Great!
I don't want to start a trial life insurance membership, find that I will use it, and then . . . .*
Besides, I already have insurance through my company so there's that.
Wow. Free!!
Wow.
That's . . . um . . . great. How does one "try out" life insurance for sixty days, exactly?
I guess there are several different options, really:
1.) I can die and be completely unhappy with the million dollars and then cancel.
2.) I can feel a general sense of lack of protection (I need TWO million dollars! to be truly comfortable) and then cancel.
3.) I can imagine what it would be like to have to pay the monthly fee, feel unhappy about that fantasy malaise, and then cancel.
4.) I can keep it.
Life insurance doesn't lend itself to a trial membership like a lot of other places. Say . . . Netflix, for instance. I did a trial membership with them and found that I used them so I kept the service. Great!
I don't want to start a trial life insurance membership, find that I will use it, and then . . . .*
Besides, I already have insurance through my company so there's that.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Heh! heheheheheh! This is easily the strangest oatmeal I've ever come across:
(as seen at the Glendale Whole Foods) I really . . . words really can't describe how yak-tastic this "oatmeal" appears to be. Well, they can but I run a family site and frankly no one came here to read about Ordure du Chien in salamander-skin sauce.
Whole Foods, I expect better of you when you steal my paycheck! And anyway, you owe me after busting my tooth. (which broke again, bye-the-bye . . . this means two more visits to the dentist. Methinks I need a crown.)
(as seen at the Glendale Whole Foods) I really . . . words really can't describe how yak-tastic this "oatmeal" appears to be. Well, they can but I run a family site and frankly no one came here to read about Ordure du Chien in salamander-skin sauce. Whole Foods, I expect better of you when you steal my paycheck! And anyway, you owe me after busting my tooth. (which broke again, bye-the-bye . . . this means two more visits to the dentist. Methinks I need a crown.)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
From today's Miscreant Bouillabaisse on buzz.mn . . .
(please visit the link in my RSS feed reader on the right for the full post)
"Elsewhere in the world of blatant larceny: Theft. A man left Sam's Auto Parts after paying for two tires, but not the 16-inch rims and hub caps the tires were mounted on. The man put the items in his vehicle and fled. He was later contacted by police and told that he would be charged with theft. He responded by saying that he didn't care."
Lileks goes on to say . . . "How old was the thief, five?"
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