Guys, I think I'm going to be taking a break from this here site for a bit--not sure how long, maybe about a month or so. I started doing another picture-a-day project and between that and some other side work, I'm pulling my hair out just a tad. So I figure--since no one on earth actually READS this--this might be the project to be put aside for a bit!
I guess I reserve the right to toss up a picture here and there if I take one I like, but more than likely, I'll just have to check in with my imaginary readers sometime this fall.
Ciao!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Blog Pause
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Sexaaaay
This is how sexy I can look using my new CPAP machine, should I choose to use the optional chin straps to keep my mouth firmly closed.
If it ever occurs that a man does see me in this, pray that afterward it won't be utterly impossible to ever get laid again.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Playing with fire... literally
I got a CPAP machine today; I had to go to this oxygen/medical supply place to pick it up and get oriented. In their office, in the midst of a big messy wall of framed photos, was this one: a guy from the 40's slinging a big oxygen tank around without a safety cap on it while smoking a cigarette. Too priceless.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Daily reminder to be a World Citizen
This is my new clock from Target, and I LUUURVE it. It's one of those ones where each face is labeled with a different city name--L.A., NYC, Buenos Aires, London, Berlin, etc. I set them all to the right times, and put it in my bathroom. Now as I brush my teeth or do my hair, I can look at it and think about all those different places, and what it might be like over in Tokyo when it's 4 in the morning or whatever, and be reminded that I am going to visit these places and as many others in the world as I possibly can.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Cat puddles
Is it me, or are my 10-yr-old cats starting to slow down from their once-kittenish pace? ;)
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The vet provokes different reactions...
My cat Wallace doesn't like the vet. Not even for checkups like this one. Maybe it's because they always tell him he's fat. (18 lbs! Mother of God!) On the other hand...
Boo Bear, a 1yr old miniature English bulldog, doesn't seem to mind the vet so much. In fact, I doubt she minds anything. Her owner says she even loves going to the groomer. Maybe it's her pink nail polish that's cheering her up.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Marge moment
I didn't know this lady; she was posing for somebody else. But I did like the eye contact she was making. I don't think she trusts Marge...
Monday, August 6, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
Mmm...donuts.
Resting comfortably the Burbank Kwik-E-Mart, very big marketing ploy for the Simpson's movie! And also, somehow, the densest, heaviest baked good known to man!
If you want to see all my photos from the Kwik-E-Mart, go here.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
My view on the way to San Diego Comic-Con
For four hours.
I hear San Diego is scenic, but sorry, I'm not seeing it. (Literally. )
Coincidentally, my friend Tom took this picture of himself driving the same route:
The pain of the 5 freeway, she is universal.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Sci Fi Channel booth at Comic Con 2007
It wasn't really a booth per se, because...nothing happened there. No one was manning it, they didn't sell or give anything out. It just had a few video screens showing their stuff (and the ambient color kept changing) and it just...existed. And apparently was a place to sit and hang out. And look like you were in an episode of "Laugh-In."
Monday, July 30, 2007
Cool booths
These were some cool booths in a San Diego restaurant. I felt like they were either giant wicker water drops, or birdcages with a cover charge.
Edited to add: Looks like the folks over at Apartment Therapy had their eyes on the same thing.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Darth Maul eats a pretzel
I'm at Comic-Con this weekend, watching fierce Sith warriors eat overpriced snack foods.
I like how Darth's fingernails are each painted a different color. Must be a Dexter fan.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Furry
Just trying a macro shot on something other than a flower, seeing if I could find some interesting texture. But I think my equipment is not quite up to achieving the effects I'd hoped. Plus, Wallace wouldn't hold still. He kept breathing. Selfish little bastard.
I didn't say it'd be a good picture a day.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Are you feeling gastronomically brave?
Franks Coffee Shop in Burbank is THE most hardcore, decades-old, time-machine, never-changed throwback diner EVER. It's one of the only places to eat within walking distance of my work, so even though you have to be feeling really brave to go in, occasionally we chance it. Even then it's best if you don't look too closely at how clean (or not) the place is kept.
Clearly, the ambiance is a powerful magnet that draws people irresistibly.
The interior. The window shade thingies (visible at top right) are astounding up close--they're plastic and interlocking and indescribable and so 70's Brady Bunch and AMAZING. I dearly wish someone would clean them up to their former orange-and-beige glory, but at the moment they're kind of in grungy tatters. If a decorator could somehow acquire them to put on the huge windows of someone's big modern loft apartment, that someone would have the grooviest pad in history.
Some locals share their views on undoubtedly important stuff.
And finally, the wait staff that makes it all happen. My friends swear they've actually ordered things here and had one of the waitresses tell them no, those things were too inconvenient for her, order something else.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Ball O' Hair
Returning to my promised Fly On The Wall photography style (I have the damndest time staying on topic), I present Ball O'Hair Lady.
I must say I do wish I could have sat at the table with her and done a real portrait. But I didn't see how, since my intro--were I truthful--would have been something like: "Hello, your hair is TOTALLY FREAKISH! Can I snap a picture so my friends and I can laugh?"
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Greek Guy
(I keep skipping days between posts. Oopsie. :-/)
I took this picture on our last night in Athens--I couldn't pass up that guy in that shirt. And the thing is, I could totally imagine this Greek guy living in NYC and standing in front of a t-shirt shop there. This picture is totally interchangeable!
Friday, July 13, 2007
Balancing
During our recent bus tour's time in Greece, we were taken to yet another "kickback" store (where the guide, I'm assuming, gets a kickback for dragging us out of our way to said dumb overpriced store and pretending there's something special about it). The pottery therein was overpriced and I was feeling rebellious, so I went outside and took pictures of all the stuff that had been thrown into the store's side yard, that they ostensibly didn't want us to see. There was a lot of it.
This young lady presided over things from a precarious perch.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Peach Flower
This was from a flower garden on the island of Capri. I just like the colors, the textures, the way the flower pot makes a reddish swoop through the shot. Oh, and also that I took it while on Capri. ;)
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Hello Love Experiment
I met these fine people on the corner of Vermont and Hollywood Blvd., in Silverlake. They're a part of the Hello Love Experiment, and were giving out sisterly love (and tee shirts!) for free. Seriously. Not an attached string in sight.
In case it's not immediately apparent, I've been--as the British might say--"faffing about" with the Lens Blur feature on Photoshop. On no known planet does a little camera like mine give you depth of field. (Although...maybe it does, and I just don't know how to use it.) The above experiment didn't come out great, but...I did say it was faffing.
Even more faffing! Not nuts about this one either, but...what the hey.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Gino the Wonder Dog!
In Lucerne, Switzerland, this dog was playing in the lake with his owner. The owner would throw this stick far out into the lake, and Gino would eagerly swim out and get it. Our group--about 45 people--was cheering him on and yelling "Good dog!", but he was utterly, happily focused--he didn't care about anything but his owner and that stick.
Haven't been posting much while I'm traveling--functional internet access is too hard to come by. I have indeed been taking like 75 pictures a day, though. :) I'll start posting regularly again when I come home.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Look!
There's an "Everything" store in Paris, too!
Internet access--and time to blog--is scarce on my European trip. I'll be back to my picture-a-day schedule as soon as I can.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Good lookin'
I went to the dog park the other day to take pictures, and this guy was my choice for the Most Awesomely Quirky-Looking Dog Award. (I mean, the ears alone should qualify him.) He was quite the sweetie, and seemed to feel I was very tasty, if all the licking was any indication.
Then I noticed he'd been sporting an erection throughout the proceedings and felt our time was over. I know, it's a dog, but...just how I felt.
I have many more dog park pictures, which I'll post at some later point...when I'm not about to leave for the airport in two hours for a trip to Europe.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Driving and shooting*
The side of the Wiltern Theater in L.A., an Art Deco landmark. This doesn't really show the building, of course, but I think it's interesting how, on the right, vintage neon contrasts with modern (and some might say tacky) neon.
(*Don't try this at home. Or rather...at car.)
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Layout probs
I don't know what's going on around here, but I've discovered that whenever I post something new ("new" as in "after June 12th"), it throws the whole layout off. Suddenly the sidebar gets squished down below all the posts. As you probably will notice, I have done exactly that with this post, blown the whole nice balanced layout thingy to smithereens.
I have a vague idea of why it's happening--new posts are throwing code into the mix that messes with the greater page layout code--but I don't know where the wrench in the works is actually lurking.
This is the reason I didn't post yesterday, though I tried to. And it's also the reason I won't post today, except to say that I'm not posting. I hope to fix it soon and then resume posting.
(Of course, those last three sentences presuppose that someone, ANYONE in the entire world is actually reading this thing, and that such announcements are necessary. As we all know that's not true, I guess I can do anything I want.)
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Commentary
Someone is against the Hollywood Undead... whatever that is.
Maybe it's the Hollywood Van Helsing. (::is obscure::)
Monday, June 11, 2007
Peeking Dog
This little guy was in a friend's bag, without any of us knowing it, even after we'd stood there talking for like 15 minutes.
The world must be very big for him.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
You're so nauti...cal.
I drove past this place yesterday, and though I think I've seen it before, it was obvious that this was my picture for the day.
Methinks somebody read a little too much Mark Twain growing up, and then decided to be an architect. The windows are portholes. WITH bars on them--personally, I think you could ditch that feature. Dude, if anybody could even FIT through that tiny round space to get into your house, they'd deserve whatever they came to steal. God knows the residents must not be getting much light as it is, without adding the extra hardware.
I tried Googling this place before I posted, but amazingly, found nothing. I put in "boat," "house," "weird," "architecture," "los angeles," "silverlake," and the names of the streets on whose corner it is. Nuthin'. Somebody has to have said something about this place previously, and darn it, I want some history.
But for now, I guess we'll just have to settle for looking at it, and pretending we're at Tom Sawyer's island at Disneyland.
All aboard.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
You heard me, everything.
The very existence of The Everything Store fills me with giggly joy.
It's certainly not the best picture ever taken, but I don't think I have another I enjoy more.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Musso and Frank
Musso and Frank, still surviving even though it's disturbingly marooned in the anarchy of Hollywood Blvd. And though it still has that old dark-and-heavy interior decoration and famous martinis, apparently it doesn't boast old waiters, which really are the best thing to encounter when you go to a Hollywood throwback kind of place.
They used to have those at the old Dupar's in the Farmers Market--waitresses who'd been there practically since the place opened. 70-year-old ladies who either tottered along and called you "dear" or snarked half-kiddingly at you that they didn't "do" glasses of water. People Who Remember The Place When and Still Do Things The Old Way are awesome for the ambiance.
But a friend of mine complained that the last time he got a martini at Musso's, the bar was manned by Latin American immigrants--not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that they didn't know the history of the place or the stories, even if they could have told 'em in English.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
I feel pretty...
It was (apparently) the night of the West Hollywood Prom (which, despite all my years as a Fag Hag, I'd never heard of before that night). So all the neighborhood Girls were getting gussied up.
CHECK out those shoes.
Much fussing ensues.
One last look. Don't worry, hon, you're fabulous.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Dog on Duty
So here we go, post-wise.
This dog was lounging in the most "Sigh. Bored now..." pose ever when I passed him in my car. I stopped and walked back, hoping to get close enough for a good shot without disturbing the pose, but I knew as soon as he spotted me he'd be up and barking. And here, we see I was right.
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