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Beautiful disaster

I like to keep things up-to-the-minute fresh here, so I will now report on a mini-trip to Southern California that I took three months ago. The route was the desert north of San Diego, to Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, and back.   It is impossible for me to resist a folk art monument, so naturally [...]

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Death Valley days

Oh hi, Internet, guess what?  I went to Death Valley.  Over a month ago.  I didn’t write about it before because I have the attention span of a gnat.  Now, I will concentrate. After leaving LA, the first stop along the way was in Lancaster, CA to drive over the musical road. It’s a stretch [...]

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Warning: Contents are disturbing

Seriously people, I mean it. If you can’t watch movies where people turn in to aliens, or baby aliens burst out of someone’s chest, then you’d better look away right now. On the 4th of July, I decided to check out some California Culture. We went to the Mr. and Mrs. Muscle Beach Competition at [...]

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Friday postcards from LA

Friday afternoon we went to an art gallery in West Hollywood to check out the David Lynch/Sparklehorse show. David Lynch’s photographs are . . . David Lynchian. The furniture store next door was really more entertaining. There, for just a few thousand, you can purchase a life-sized horse lamp, a lot of furniture items dipped [...]

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