Take offs

The thing about L.A. before you even land is the lights. Everywhere. Like a circuit board. Beneath or at least near each  is a story, a life, a world. Only a glance and I’m reminded of that.

It’s late, but I know the way it would look in the sunlight, the circuit boards stretching between the [...]

Seen This Week Short and Sweet

Images from the second phase of my recent travels. I’ll let them speak for themselves.

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Quick Update

The primary purpose of this Web site is independent journalism and commentary. In recent weeks I’ve been straying from that, and know I’ve posted a number of personal reflection-styled posts. While I haven’t heavily publicized L@L I know I’ve mentioned it to a few people and have started getting the word out a bit further. [...]

Landings

Lately I’ve been thinking a tremendous amount about places I’ve been, places I am and places I may be going. As this week’s “Seen This Week” mentioned, since Friday I’ve been in Portland, Oregon. While here, I’ve had the opportunity to connect with a number of old friends, beloved members of my family and a city [...]

Seen This Week Gets PDX’ed.

While I put off thinking of a snappier title for my weekly collections of images seen out and about, I thought I’d post a few images from quite a distance out (at least compared to my day to day around L.A.). I’ve been in Portland (the Oregon edition) since March 13 for what could easily [...]

Want some coffee with your water?

Guilty.

I love a great cup of coffee. Black and warm, on a gray rainy day like this, with books piling around me (alright, I guess instance I’m looking at newspapes and transcripts and doing so in a virtual sense — thank you USC Libraries and your various databases), it’s a welcome companion.

As this morning stretched [...]

Seen This Week: Feb. 23 – Mar 2

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It has been a bit of one of those weekends for me — not to complain to strangers, though — I’ll let the images speak for themselves. Highlights include an afternoon on campus at USC, to a Saturday afternoon visit to the Bicycle [...]