tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312853322011-11-11T09:00:01.055-08:00All the words that are worth a damn. The rest you can throw away.Arturo Aguilarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280884762689329758noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31285332.post-23609818791358394052011-11-11T09:00:00.001-08:002011-11-11T09:00:01.087-08:00

Last year we honored Simona's birthday for almost a fortnight during what was known as "The Ten Days of 10.10.10." That's right, ten whole days of celebration. It ended with this little get together. The calendar won't align for me that way for another ten years, at which point Simona is responsible for "the 21 days of 2.1.21!" She had better start saving because I don't come cheap.

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My "Old Man" story:           I remember when I was a kid, we lived next to the park. It was a big park with baseball diamonds, and swings and tennis courts and even an Olympic sized swimming pool. South Gate park was the best, I loved living a block away. After school, in Jr. high, which was like 1984, 1986 around there, I would go into the park looking for break dancers. Just a huddle

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&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspSimona and I really are a hell of team. When I have no time for chores she takes over, when she has no time, I do the work. I clean the bathroom - she takes care of the cat litter. Bang-Bang. Moving in with her was effortless, and we never had any issues dealing with things domestic, except for one.&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspFor some reason that I am sure involves a

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I think it's delicious that Georgia's and Alabama's stern stance against undocumented workers has resulted in BILLIONS of dollars in lost revenue to the states due to there being no one to pick their crops. Having said that I don't like the connotation that the only job Mexicans are qualified for is picking crops. Two notes on these photos, they were taken last year at the May Day Rally and I

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You know, I was never really what you call a political environmentalist. Not like one of these global worming types. I have this thing called humility before nature, that keeps me from thinking that puny human beings can control the outcome of something so large and so complex as climate of an entire planet. I drive a hybrid but it has nothing to do with carbon emissions, it’s because I hate

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George Washington was a punk ass bitch. I don’t really care if you think different because you’re wrong. No offense, but let’s face facts. Yes he was the first president of the United States of America. The father of our great country, whatever. Someone had to do it and he was in the mix. I mean, I don’t know about you but I don’t want to idolize the man who owned slaves and then refused

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So, plant genitalia. What can I say about them that hasn’t already been said. A rose by any other name would be testicles. Gives new meaning to what you’re supposed to stop and smell every once and a while. But still, they’re pretty and everyone loves them. Simona and I went to the downtown flower district on Wall between 7th and 8th early one Saturday, it’s one of the few parts of the city

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Humming birds get their names from the fact that they don’t know the words to any songs. That’s mostly true because believe it or not humming birds have absolutely so love for today’s modern pop music. Truth be told they much prefer christian rock. I know what you’re thinking, I love christian rock too with its God is so cool he probably has a tattoo and wears a headband that reads, “Who’s the

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How we see the collection of the day is how we choose to see it. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s really a Rorschach showing us what we want to see. I decided to document my days in random increments and see what my life's images told me.I sent out an e-mail to 30 of my closest friends, asking them to text me a short message at random times during the day. Upon receiving the text I would

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Can you imagine the kind of balls It takes to move 1000 miles away, into a foreign country where you don’t even speak the language? I imagine it takes about the same kind of balls as it does to follow a man you barely know to said country, illegally, where you know no one, and raise a family. It’s like you or I dropping everything and moving to Romania with someone we met on the plane. And

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It’s a strange thing when rock stars get old.One day Mos Def will be old. One day JayZ will be old, just like Whodini and Slick Rick.I remember when the Rolling Stones got back together for their Steel Wheels tour. Why would people pay solid money to watch a group of old men gyrate to old music. I still feel that way about them.I got a glimpse of our future a while back when I caught Cut

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The best time to go whale watching is usually in the summer. The whales get tired of their lousy local weather and come to Los Angeles for some fun in the sun. It’s kinda like spring break: the whales cruise around the ocean boulevards getting drunk, picking up on whale chicks (which whale biologists call Marys). As you can see from these pictures, we decided to go whale watching in late July,

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So here I am in court, and I’m looking around at my fellow traffic criminals as we wait in the gallery for the judge, and I do a little counting. As it turns out, in a room of about 50 people, about 22 were black, 18 Latino, about 8 were various other minorities, and just 2 people in that whole big ol’ room were white.I have to believe that white people forget or don’t care to fix their fix-it

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For more than two and a half years I’ve had the privilege to love and to be loved by this most wonderful of women. She’s my soul and my reason for breathing. I am truly the luckiest man in the world.

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A burning in the lungs is expected when one is running from the police. And why not run? -assuming you’re guilty. They may not even be aware of it yet, or you for that matter, although, suspicion that a law you’ve never heard of might be broken accidentally, without either party being aware is good enough reason to run in the first place.The story goes easy if you’re willing to listen. A

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This one year I was jealous of my friend Margarito because he was more romantic then me. As a gift to get a girl to notice him he stole the sign of the street which bared the same name as her. I don’t remember what her name was, so let’s just say it was Marylou Wy. Now I’m pretty sure Marylou didn’t like Margarito and this was a mere token of unrequited love, but to me, it was Loyd Dobler. I

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I find it alarming that I can quite easily shoplift a ripe grapefruit by casually slipping it into my pants. No one seems to notice my grotesque misshaping and I can nonchalantly walk out of the front door of any grocery store.What is wrong with society today, when no one notices an egregious bulge in some man’s pants?? When something like that happens I say we’ve become more animal the human,

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He’s dumb he’s scaredHe’s thinking impairedHe’s always scratching an itchHe’s clumsy and shyA really nice guyYour favorite son of a bitchHe’s sweet and a punkHe fits in your trunkAnd needs a punch in the faceHe sleeps on your bedSheds on your headTo every owner’s disgraceFloyd-o, Floyd-oMakes me so annoyed-oFloyd-o Floyd-oNo one knows he’s gayNobody knows he’s gayHe hopes to keep it this wayHis

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Growing up I always wondered where I would get stuck. My older co-workers and friends blast hair bands like Poison and Motley Crew. My sister trains her daughter on a strict diet of Bon Jovi, while her husband feeds them Rush. My dad is still in Mexico listening to Mambo, Danson, and Trios. Once on a date I asked a girl if she had heard to the new Weezer album, she asked me, “What’s a Weezer?

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Recently I filled in one of those death clock questionnaires on the internet and it said I would be dying at the ripe young age of 72. That's 2045 for those of you keeping score at home. While 72 is not as good as 82, it's sure a hell of a lot better then 54 so I can't complain. Having said that, a month ago I turned 36, meaning, I’m half way done.I’m half way done!!!A midlife crisis seems to

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Wine and me go together like whipped cream and lime pickle. Make mine whiskey, so big it’s whiskey double. But, wine is what brought me here and so wine is what I’ve got, mostly because the flask in my coat just went dry, and so did my mouth. I roll into one of those wine bars with a quaint, rustic sounding name like Oxtail, or Smokewood lounge. The girl behind the bar is more like a lady in

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Back in January I picked up the The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM lens and then everything changed for me. At least visually.

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Alright so you’ve got scabies. The hard part is over and that’s admitting to yourself that there’s a tiny animal embedded in your skin whose poop makes you itch. Now you’re wondering, how do I get rid of them? Piece of cake. Your doctor can prescribe you a cream which you rub all over your body, from head to toe. Do it overnight because you have to keep it on for a good twelve hours,

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I have a beautiful girlfriend. I mean utterly gorgeous. And I won’t stop there, she’s brilliant. The only thing my talent comes second to, is hers.She just had a birthday and I can’t stop thinking about her.love love love, sweetheart.

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by b.b. cakes Eddie Mars: Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?Philip Marlowe: Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one?Eddie Mars: Is that any of your business? Philip Marlowe: I could make it my business.Eddie Mars: I could make your business mine.Philip Marlowe: Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.Film Noir came to be around the mid 1940s

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from the "8 Things that Hipsters Don't Do In L.A. That Are Really Awesome" seriesGriffith Park has four golf courses, a driving range, an outdoor auditorium, an observatory, a zoo, a train museum, fancy rich houses, a cemetery (sort of), a café, AND, the bat cave. Not to mention, deer, coyotes, bats, and occasionally a cougar.Not the least of cool things inside this park are miles and miles of

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McCain is running the silliest campaign I've ever heard of. This isn't an election for student body president, it's to become the leader of the free world! You can't pull bullshit like this; it's weak and it's lame. And if McCain's campaign is representative of his would be presidency, well then really, how could we even entertain the idea of voting this man into office?Having said all that I

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If you haven’t heard by now, even the prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, is calling withdrawal of American troops by early 2010. In an interview with Der Speigel magazine, he said: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal." None too soon as far as I’m concerned. These photos were taken in late November

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I can't imagine doing anything for 40 years (mostly because I'm only 35), but that's how long my parents have been married. Since then they've spawned three children who have so far spawned four more. These two people are now responsible for another SEVEN plus themselves. You want to know why we have a general over population issue? Talk to them.Other things which have happened since these

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I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life but I don't really want to be able to say that when I'm dead. It's quickly becoming time for me to broaden my horizons, probably to the east, and so I imagine my days here are numbered. It's time I take that lifetime of living here and start shooting the city as I see it.Los Angeles, unlike say New York or London, is wide open for interpretation. If

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When I was a kid my hobbies were: model car building, drawing and being awesome. These days I takey the pictures. It makes me feel good about myself that I too can look through a lens and press a button. I also watch television and breathe.Here’s a list of hobbies I’m planning on taking up either sooner or later.Getting to work on time.Doing things my doctor says I shouldn’t do.Inventing

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MEATBoil meat with spices.Spices: Chicken bullion, garlic powder, “Complete Seasoning”, “All Purpose w/o Pepper”After cooking, save broth.In a frying pan: mix olive oil, 2 tbsp (heaping) of flour. Cook till flour soaks up oil and becomes pasty. Add salsa (“Las Palmas: Red Chili Sauce). Bring salsa to boil and then add meat from above. Stir meat in until it is drenched in salsa. Salt to

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My father loved movies as a kid so as an adult he took it upon himself to educate his family on some film history. This was a lot harder to do in the late 70’s and early 80’s then it is today. We’re talking about a time when renting video tapes required a $500 deposit, and buying video tapes was just an astronomical expense. So, his pickings consisted of whatever happened to be playing on

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from the "8 Things that Hipsters Love About L.A. that Actually Suck" seriesHere's how the call went:Waiter (on phone): Cafe 101.Me: Yeah I'd like to place an order for take out.Waiter: *sigh*Me: Okay I'd like a Denver omelette.Waiter: We don't have Denver omelettes.Me: What??Waiter: I said we don't have Denver omelette. None of our omelettes have names, you just have to tell me what you

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My sister Sandra just graduated college and picked up her teaching credential. It was a job that she started at Berkley in 1987. If her college career was a baby it would able to drink legally. During the 21 years it took my sister to graduate she's gotten married, bought a house and mothered two amazing children.My other sister Diana took the more traditional route. She finished UC Santa

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Not Obama, Kareem Abdul Jabar.Equal time to the Republican candidate of course .This election's third party candidate also brings it strong.

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Myanmar"The UN has sharply increased its estimate of those severly affected by Burma's cyclone to 2.5m people.""As forecasters warned a new cyclone was brewing off the coast, latest Burmese official figures put the death toll at almost 38,500 with 27,838 more missing. ""Thai leader Samak Sundaravej flew to Rangoon for talks with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, but said the junta was adamant it

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Our eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts.We all have microscopic creatures lurking in our eyelashes.The average person blinks 12 times per minute - about 10,000 blinks in an average day. It takes an entire lifetime to amass a total of about 300,000,000 blinks.The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do.

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In America you can always find a party. In Russia, Party always finds you.In America you have McDonald’s. In Russia we have McDonald’s too except there it’s a little different.In America, you have telephone poles. In Russia we have Poles who telephone.In America your flag pin is red, white and blue. In Russia we have a different flag.In America you cling to guns or religion or antipathy to

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Here in the car (museum)I see relics gone byWhen the fuel was foreverAnd the ultimate status symbolWas a car.Here in the car (museum)I walk through the hallsMeanwhile war wages onJust to supplyMy car.Here in the car (museum)I see gas prices riseMaybe five bucks a gallonDon't know how to affordMy car.Here in the car (museum)Thinking of ways to conserveGonna get me a VespaSo I can replaceMy car.

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In the future we will all be wearing more loose fitting underwear.In the future fine fashion will be made of potato skins because of its unique texture and delicious aroma; sadly this will drive perfume sales to record lows, eventually bottoming out the industry.In the future hepatic technology will make the sense of touch obsolete for all but a few robots, those robots will be considered "

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From movies.com: "Stay for the credits and count the digital animation people who are all probably really, really exhausted by now: For example, I counted nearly 40 names that worked on cloth and hair. That's it. Weeks and weeks of animating cloth and hair. Next time your boss makes you restock the plastic-cup lids for an hour, you think of that and count your blessings."Our hair and cloth

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Okonomiyaki (Japanese-style savory pancakes)Ingredients Dough 1.5 cups flour 7 oz. water 2 eggs Cabbage 1 package of firm tofu, cubed Possible ingredients to put into/onto Okonomiyaki Katsuobushi*: Dried, shaved benito (katsuo) Aonori*: Green, dried seaweed. Sauces Brown okonomiyaki sauce* MayonnaisePreparation Cut four large, green cabbage leaves without the hard, white core in thin strings (ca

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My dad used to tell me the story of my grandfather during the great depression . He told me about a US government which offered Mexicans a free train ride to the US/Mexico border and then an offer to pay half of their train ticket to travel anywhere within Mexico. Coach, one way. My grandfather seized it; he would have been a fool not to. He and my grandmother packed up their son and two

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If you've ever had a gaping holesurgically created somewhere in your chest then you'd understand. Like most amputees there's not only a feeling of still wearing the limb but of it actually weighing even more then it had before. Imagine a slab of concrete attached to a forty pound chain welded to your ribcage and you have an idea. You walk slower, and you breathe more shallow, but I guess that’s

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My love has gone to India for a couple of weeks. This saddens me to no end. I can't wait for her to come home. Simona I miss you.

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Apu: Well hello Mr. Homer, what brings you to my store?Homer: Well Apu the softball team wanted me to talk to you. Apu: Oh? What about? Homer: Well, frankly your numbers are falling. Apu: Nothing to worry about Homer ol’ buddy, it’s just a dry spell. The balls will start dropping and when they do you just watch that batting average of mine soar! Homer: Well that’s just the

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People having birthdays always reminds me of the passing of time. As my friends get older, my generation gets older and little tidbits of common knowledge slowly pass into oblivion. A thousand years after we all expire, “May the force be with you”, Jackie Robinson and my mom singing “Las mañanitas” on my birthday when I was a kid will be forgotten by both humans and their evil robot overlords.

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Once, three overweight, right-winged Republicans with racists backgrounds and a penchant for war found themselves about to face a Spanish firing squad. They were as dumb as they were ugly, each one dumber then the first, but being resourceful tools of the devil they uncharacteristically managed to come up with a plan of escape; a plan well beyond their usual capacity for inspiration.The first

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Crap for sale! Useless, meaningless crap for sale.Crap that’s used and slightly rusted.Crap that may be a little busted.Crap for sale!Who will buy?Who will take a pan that doesn’t fry?Who is prepared to spend some cashFor a blanket that’ll give you a rash?Crap for sale!Let the stores sell their waresWith their overpricesI will deal used teddy bears,And electrical devices.If you want the thrill of

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Half a world away innocent people struggling for normalcy die by the score while a war wages all around them. Like you and I, they stand in line at the grocery store, struggle to raise their kids, and occasionally watch an episode of Lost, yet they’re surrounded by violence perpetrated by war mongers and fanatics. Why anyone wages war is open to debate. What is just to some is murder to

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Almost every Brit I know hates baseball because it calls its championship the World Series. Get over it. It was a marketing scheme developed 104 years ago, it ain’t changing for you. You want in? Pick up a bat. And not that weird flat kind. Seriously, cricket looks like a grownup version of over-the-line in formal wear. Out of 162 days of Dodger baseball, opening day is by far my favorite

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Webster’s Dictionary defines a wedding as, “A small rocklike protuberance. Egg-shaped in nature; soft and with a gooey center.” I hope to be wed someday myself. Wed like a fox! Jaime and Camille got married last May. I bought a suit, Simona straightened her hair. It was out in Pomona so we stayed the night. I’ve never stayed at a hotel where the lobby was the penthouse and you went

Arturo Aguilarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280884762689329758noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31285332.post-38630078878320242252007-04-22T23:18:00.000-07:002009-08-09T09:57:45.732-07:00

Nothing says the miraculous resurrection of our lord and savior like the grilling up of dead animals.Easter Bar-b-que Family, friends and alcohol. Can't beat it.

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Noon rolled around and I waited a second for a hangover that never came. I decided to get out of bed. Not long after that Juan knocked on the door, he was going to the beach with everyone else, I said I'd join. I opted the barefoot approach, it was short walk anyway.I turned the corner, stepped in sand and heard, "Hey Art's here, YAY!" I sat under a shade in the noonday sun. I ordered some

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Distrito Federal.The biggest city in the world got a little bigger for a few days as five Los Angelinos wondered it's corridors. With the Lopez wedding still another week away Juan, Molly, Jeanie, Vanessa and I had some time to kill. We figured Mexico's capitol would be good for a few laughs. Turns out yes.A rooftop pool, more art then you can shake a stick at, and Lucha Libre? If you watch

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If you're like me, then you too believe that I am the culmination of more then 2000 years of ancient Mesoamerican ancestry. That's right the pyramids, virgin sacrifices, Moctezuma's revenge, it was all done so that I can inhabit the Earth. Awful nice of an entire civilization I say. And don't think I'm not grateful. Anyway it only seemed fair that I make a pilgrimage to the mother-land.

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The stairs went straight down. I mean straight down. What looked like thousands of feet below us, was the field. I held onto the handrail that ran down the middle of the isle with both hands as I climbed down to my red seat. And that's about all I remember. I was seven years old.I'd love to tell you a romantic story of my first baseball game at Dodger Stadium. About how I saw the green of the

Arturo Aguilarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280884762689329758noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31285332.post-1159942885676607492006-10-03T23:02:00.000-07:002009-08-09T10:07:43.994-07:00

If you don't golf then you're a chump. I've been golfing in one form or another since Junior High. I'm not all that good. I don't really care. I just like being outside, on a nice patch of grass, playing a game with my favorite people. This is a more "rural" L.A. course in the mighty hills of Glendale called Scholl Canyon. Slick greens, 60 yard tee shots, and desert on all sides. For mostly being

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Photos from the car. As I started working on them, they began to remind me of the Personal Jesus video. So here is my tribute to Anton Corbijn. Ten points to anyone who can figure out where I went.

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For the last two weeks I've been trying to come up with a story for the above title. I just couldn't do it.When I take my camera out with me I'm not only looking for the picture but also for inspiration for the text. Well I went hiking a few times last month, once to the Mayfair (street hiking), once at Beachwood Canyon, and lastly at Runyon Canyon. As I walked I came up with the title and it

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I used to drive a 1969 Volkswagen square-back. I bought it my senior year in high school for $1,300. It was white with worn out sheepskin seat covers, no air conditioning and drum breaks. A bitchin' ride to be sure. It was in this car, more then the others, that I had my heart broken for not the first time but maybe the most memorable.My senior year was also another first for me, it was the year

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.To that end I like to take a day off from work once in a while and do something I've been meaning to. My last work ditching adventure found me at the L.A. Science Center, to check out the Marvel exhibit. I was disappointed. It was kinda lame to be honest, but it's for kids so I didn't complain too much,

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Luckily after Anthony's service there was a free concert I had to go to. Juan as usual hooked us up with great seats.Juan Colato (second from left) works for the Wells Fargo History Museum as it's curator. One of the big perks of his gig (aside from ruling the fool's gold line with an iron fist, and having like six months of vacation a year) is great tickets to public events. Odds are, if I'm in

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On July 27th my friend Anthony Glass lost his fight with cancer. He had been battling it for a year and doing a hell of a job. To be completely honest his death was kind of a shock to me. I mean I knew he had gotten sick initially, and that he had had surgery and chemo., but I thought it was fight he had won and as far as I was concerned it was history. Then in June I get the news from Molly

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My niece Isabella (blue skirt with the red checkered top) turned three On July 7th. On what might have been the hottest day of the year, my mom decided to throw a small party for her. It was good to see some family I hadn't seen in a while, and talk and get to know each other, but let's face facts the kids are the ones having the real fun. I took other pictures but theirs were my favorites.

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When I was ten years old I decided to play basketball. I had already conquered baseball and soccer, basketball was the next natural step. As luck would have it, one of my baseball teammate's father was the coach. He picked me for his team, he was doing me a favor; I was terrible at basketball. Now this guy's dad was one of the few white people still left in South Gate at the time, their numbers

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Grand Performances has a really great lineup this year. I've already seen an act called Ska-Cubano who created an almost perfect fusion of ska and cumbia. I can recommend them whole heartily. Last Friday I went to go see the Diavolo Dance Theater. They were part dance, part acrobatics (something in the vein of Cirque De Solie but with cheesier music) and all movement, sometimes with large heavy

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