Mixed Meters

I would have been eight years old in 1959, fifty years ago. The government announced that year, just before Thanksgiving, that some cranber...

Check out a tuneful restaurant, ride in a fast RV, buy some fancy clothing, enjoy wine with multiple voices, sip some Bachian java or relax ...

For some reason I keep making videos of birds. First there was Birds Who Don't Know The Words . Then there was SQUAWK! Now, here is ...

Weeks ago I posted about Pasadena , a hit sung by the Euro-pop group Maywood. You may want to get up to speed by reading that post before...

Click here to listen to Oil and Water Mix right now and avoid all the tedious reading. Earlier this year I heard a radio broadcast of Franc...

These are carefully cropped pictures of various Pasadena signs. This process reveals secret messages. And here are two in honor of Hallowee...

John Adams , the most successful composer, has been my top client for decades. Hey John, thanks for all the work! (I mean, really.) But he...

Yes, fresh from the land of cryptozoology , it's a Christmas Penguin. This one was collected by Leslie in Armstrong's Pasadena Garde...

Wandering around in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday I noticed some sculptures on a building at 307 South Broadway. You can see four of th...

Last Saturday I tagged along with Leslie as she tagged along with an excursion organized by the Natural History Museum of LA County. That...

This is a picture of Vasily Radaschevsky. I snapped it by surprise at the Pasadena Farmer's Market. There were two other people in the...