Re: Pandora

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This is so true - and you only have a limited number of fast forwards. Curses!

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A game I do not want to play

Not only is this game intimidating to look at, but the instructions are just plain insulting. They question if potential players have sufficient grey matter, if they have enough intellectual acumen, etc to handle the mathematical challenges posed by Tuf.

Yes, Tuf, I have enough - enough to leave you the heck alone!

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What the heck do they see?

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And what's up with Crackedlip McShiner behind them?

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Another successful program

Promo setup for the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Worked a few nights to make this happen.
If you're at the Grove in LA, come see Big Ben at Bow St.

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Despicable black cats of Miami Beach

Hours before we were due to go live nationwide with the Up tour, this stinker crossed our path on the Miami Beach boardwalk. Needless to say, when the time came, we weren't able to fly. Coincidence? Yes. Uncanny? Also yes.

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Cut Chemist spinning at the W in Seattle

Life is good.

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Projection Screen at Benaroya

Can't wait to see what my video looks like on this thing!

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The Whiskey Bar - Seattle

Delights await within.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Horrifying Spidercake

As seen at Porto's in Glendale.

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Oh it's so true.

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From Toothpaste For Dinner. The new ubiquitous restroom sound is the rasp of the Blackberry clickwheel.

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Territory BBQ

Nothin' says good BBQ like skull-girdled iguanas.

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From Married to the Sea ...

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My work ...

... Often takes me to strange places.

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Bric-a-brac

A curious selection of curios on display.

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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.

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Alcatraz

Why is Alcatraz no longer used? Seems like an excellent place to put bad guys.

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Sculpcha

I call this one "Tumbledown HVAC"

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Stress

Parking at the gym always puts me on edge.

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About to indulge.

Ah, sweet decadence!

I bet it's tepid by now.

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Look what we just got from FedEx

It's like Christmas around here.

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Dinner

That's a lot of chicken.

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Eagle Rock Music Festival

More unknown bands than you can shake a stick at, and a surprising amount of folks.

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My morning ...

... Has been graced with Babylonian pachyderm acolytes.

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Blacklight villains

Gotta watch your back in my neighborhood.

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What to do 'bout the Flu!

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James Lileks shares some helpful pro tips on how to deal with the Flu season that recently hove into view.

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See what's behind the trees?

At a meeting - noticed that I'm spittin' distance from a local landmark.

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From Natalie Dee

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I like my shuffle and I like my iPhone - I expect I would like this, too.

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The Hideous Dead Eyed Impy Chimp

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From lileks.com/bleat - this thing looks like it's just itchin' to chew your face off.

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Adverbingly annoying

I don't understand this - unless we're verbing Chamomile ... As in, "He quietly chamomiled up the stairs."

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A couple grizzled critters

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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.

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From Natalie Dee

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ha! He's cute in his polyester plaid. The same cannot be be said of anybody else.

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From Superpoop ...

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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

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Vandalism (sort of)

Someone took the time to scrawl this into the cement. Hilarious!

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The Man in the Moon

Brian Moon strikes a sophisticated and dramatically lit pose at The Edison.

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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.

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Songstresses in Sherman Oaks

Nice music and two fingers of Knob Creek makes for a pleasant September evening.

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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."

I think it looks rad and a half.
 
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Seward, AK at Twilight

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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.

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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.

Beyond the Starts

Methinks they didn't consider the fact that their spangley apostrophe looks like a "T"

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.

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.