Friday Foto: Time Capsule! The Very First Post

Friday Foto: Time Capsule! The Very First Post

I can’t actually re-create my very first blog post. The original URL no longer exists, since I switched to a custom domain in 2008. I’ve changed templates a couple of times during the last five years, and Blogger doesn’t even seem to have my original “Minima” template available any more. However, using my stripped-down “test blog,” I’ve come up with a decent facsimile of what went up in this space five years ago today. Clearly, […]

Friday Foto: Horsing Around in Hollywood

Friday Foto: Horsing Around in Hollywood

(I did a little horsing around with this photo, too, as if you couldn’t tell by the funky colors… Have you tried the editing tricks on Photoshop Express?) I didn’t realize that the LAPD had its own Mounties until I saw a couple of them on Franklin Avenue one afternoon last week. I snapped this photo with my phone when they were facing in the opposite direction. (Yes, I was in my car, having just […]

Friday Fotos: Scenes from a SoCal Winter

Friday Fotos: Scenes from a SoCal Winter

West Los Angeles, early December 2011 Now that we’re a few weeks away from the start of spring–at least according to the calendar–it can be told: even by Los Angeles standards, we haven’t had much of a winter. It’s been pretty dry for what’s supposed to be our rainy season, and not very cold–not that it’s ever truly cold this close to the coast, but we’ve had days at a time where temperatures have hit […]

Friday Foto: Having a Ball!

Friday Foto: Having a Ball!

We call this fellow “Jacuzzi Bear.” One day he’ll come and live with us, but he’s at home at my mother-in-law’s house now, wearing his holiday finery. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers

Friday Fotos: Food with Friends at Buddha’s Belly

Friday Fotos: Food with Friends at Buddha’s Belly

It’s pretty unusual for me to get to attend a blogger event less than 20 miles from my house on a weekend–or any time, to be honest, since I live in the northwestern outposts of Greater Los Angeles, far from paparazzi-land. Therefore, I eagerly accepted an invitation to join several bloggers for dinner at the new Thousand Oaks location of Buddha’s Belly last Saturday night. Tall Paul and I had already been there for lunch a […]

Friday Foto: The Anniversary Gift

Friday Foto: The Anniversary Gift

Technically, it’s not a bookcase, but that’s primarily how we’ll be using it. This is what Tall Paul and I gave each other for our fifth wedding anniversary last week. We still have to move some books into it, as you can see, but a couple of the stacks have already found new homes here. We found the cabinet itself at Room & Board, a new-to-us furniture store that we’ll definitely visit again! Subscribe to […]

Week-End Review – and pictures, too!

Week-End Review – and pictures, too!

There’s more “review” this week-end than I’ve managed to gather up in quite a while – plus a little editorializing – so let’s jump right in! Good News/Bad News, “Bookstores I Have Known” Department:Good news, via Shelf Awareness: “Buffalo Street Books, the Ithaca, N.Y., bookstore that closed last month and has reorganized as a coop (Shelf Awareness, March 7, 2011), is opening this coming Saturday, according to the Ithaca Journal. The store has more than […]

Friday Fill-ins, Fotos, and Filler

Friday Fill-ins, Fotos, and Filler

Because I have barely had time for blog-reading this week (again!) I don’t have a proper Week-End Review for you…but I’ll be around this weekend anyway, since I’m participating in the 24-Hour Readathon starting Saturday at 5 AM PDT! I am also taking today off from work to get ready to spend tomorrow reading and blogging about reading – it’s Catch Up and Clear the Decks Day! Friday Fill-Ins 1. In the near darkness I […]

Week-End Review: Friday Fives & a Funny Foto…

Week-End Review: Friday Fives & a Funny Foto…

(…that’s a lot of F’in stuff, isn’t it?) Five From Me: I thought I wouldn’t have much to review with you at the end of this week, and debated whether it would be better to toss up a place-holder post or just take the day off. You may assess my choice differently than I did… This was my first week back at work that’s actually been spent at work every day. And it’s been a […]

Friday Foto: Hello, Old Frenemy

Friday Foto: Hello, Old Frenemy

The Ultrasling and I will be reunited today! I am not as enthused about the prospect as that exclamation point might imply. My shoulder surgery – rotator cuff repair and anterior stabilization – is scheduled for 7:30 this morning. It’s estimated to take two to three hours – which I will never remember, because I’ll be under general anesthesia – and when I wake up in recovery, my right arm will be cradled in the […]

A (Weekly) Geeky Friday Foto – and by the way, it’s Delurking Day!

A (Weekly) Geeky Friday Foto – and by the way, it’s Delurking Day!

I’m not a consistent Weekly Geek these days, but the first assignment of 2011 is a fun one: This week, for a Geeky assignment, how about a picture? A self portrait of sorts. I think it would be fun if you all took a picture of yourself (or have someone help you most likely) reading your current book (so we can see what it is) in your favorite reading spot. Then post it! It can […]

Friday Foto: Fish Fight!

Friday Foto: Fish Fight!

The pelican in the middle is the referee, I think. Santa Barbara, California, February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers