Into the Breech

Once more into the breech with lances drawn and heavy cape. Mustard coats and velvet ropes to take it down, take it out.

Shadows

In the thick and thin of tides, across rocks, windows, trees, brandishing the shine of everlasting.

The Far End

You may be surprised at what bright sunlight hides at the far end of the park.

Burninating

The smell of toxastic, the smell of burnition. Smelling wastrells near the Metro station in North Hollywood, California just after 9 am, January 7, 2008.

Pistols In The Morning

Schools on both sides of the street. "Passenger! Get out on the driver's side!" The passenger was a woman talking on a cell phone. Six guns drawn. North Hollywood.

Los Angeles

L.A. is the apocalypse: it's you and a bunch of parking lots. No one's going to save you; no one's looking out for you. It's the only city I know where that's the explicit premise of living there – that's the deal you make when you move to L.A.
--Geoff Manaugh

Bagoomp

I found this picture on the intertubes. I would like to have a drink and hang out with these gals. I don't mean to brag, but I can make a face or two that can scare children, but not like that. Brilliant.

Signs

Signs are all around us. Most are clear, however, some require some interpretation. What does it mean when your morning walk starts with a safe on the lawn?

Beware the Actorians

They blend in with local Angelenos so you never know when you're dealing with one.

Héliographie

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

The world's first permanent camera image shows the view from Niepce's second floor window in 1826. It is a bitumen image on pewter, showing only masses of light and dark tones. The exposure supposedly took about eight hours.

Pale Blue Dot

The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance.

Von Hogflume

A neighbor of the Von Rieslings in Staffordshire in 1728...or so I thought.

Uncle Six Eyes

Artist Travis Louie has the thaumaturgic touch.

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Travis Louie's Blog

Traveling Museum Boxes by Ron Pippin

Mr. Pippin has created some remarkable traveling boxes similar to the thaumaturgic cartographers efforts. Most probably a kindred spirit. His work overall is captivating.

Pippin's Box Page

Mystery Skeleton On Ice

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Marine scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by bizarre photographs that appear to show the skeleton of a large mammal jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast.

That's as definitive as federal Fisheries and Oceans research scientist Gary Stenson can be about the photos. He has no DNA sample.

"It looks like a mammal," he said.

If it was prehistoric creature, Stenson says it may have fallen into a crevasse and froze.

Yummy Hair

This sums up the valley of San Fernando. Corner of Valley and Magnolia.

Vial of Vile

Field agents have reported terrifying proof of Von Karajon's genetic experimentations. I am currently in negotiations to bring this specimen to the US for verification. Stay tuned.

Ghost Ship Surfaces in SF

Last week the citizens of Gotham were disturbed to see a ship "sinking" in the waters around New York. This week in San Francisco, residents were shocked to see a long-lost shipwreck re-emerge from its watery tomb.

During a low tide on Monday, the wooden skeleton of the sunken ship mysteriously appeared above the waterline on San Francisco's Ocean Beach, not far from the city's zoo.

SF Chronicle Story

Greenwich Emotion Map

The Greenwich Emotion Map was created by people walking around the community wearing devices that measured galvanic skin response; the compiled results suggest a collective emotional response to each location.


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B1 Lancer In Flight

Google Maps caught this B1 Lancer cruising over South Dakota.

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