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July 14, 2024
A Foodie's Farewell Tour
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July 11, 2024
Photo Essay: Touring Halter Ranch Vineyard Estate on a Railroad of Replica Swiss Rolling Stock
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July 08, 2024
Photo Essay: The Huntington, Where Billiards and Bowling Gave Way to the Rose Garden Tea Room
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July 07, 2024
Photo Essay: The California Mission Ruins Hiding Inside a Humble Hay Barn
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July 05, 2024
Photo Essay: Immanuel Presbyterian, the French Gothic Cathedral in L.A.'s Koreatown
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July 03, 2024
Photo Essay: Celebrating a Diamond Jubilee Year Backstage at Bob Baker Marionette Theater
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June 30, 2024
A Dream Job... Deferred?
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June 22, 2024
Photo Essay: A Triple Train Tour Through Santa Margarita Ranch, via Pacific Coast Railroad
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June 16, 2024
Photo Essay: The Museum Preserving Showgirl History in Post-Jubilee Las Vegas
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May 29, 2024
Photo Essay: Finding Out How a Luffa Becomes a Loofah
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May 27, 2024
Photo Essay: A Last Look at the L.A. Times Olympic Printing Plant Before Its 2024 Closure
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May 19, 2024
Photo Essay: An Unnatural Superbloom at a Wildlife Crossing to Come (And Breaking News of a Possible Successful Crossing Into Griffith Park)
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May 13, 2024
Photo Essay: Saturday Night at the Los Angeles County Fair
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May 11, 2024
Photo Essay: The Sphere Has Landed in Vegas—And What An Experience It is
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May 06, 2024
Photo Essay: L.A. Circus, A Prop House Providing Everything Under the Big Top to Hollywood and Beyond
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April 21, 2024
Photo Essay: Warner Brothers Adds the TCM Classics Film Tour to Its Studio Backlot Experience
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April 18, 2024
Photo Essay: Mascots, Memories, and Americana at the Roadside America Museum
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April 12, 2024
There Goes the Sun (Behind the Moon)
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April 08, 2024
Photo Essay: A Texas Superbloom of Bluebonnets in April
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April 07, 2024
Photo Essay: Getting Unreal at Meow Wolf's Dallas Area Installation (Grapevine, Texas)
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April 01, 2024
It's Been a Rough Year (And It's Only April)
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March 31, 2024
Photo Essay: Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Festival Weekend (Simi Valley, CA)
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March 30, 2024
The Little House on the Prairie TV Series Converted This California Cattle Ranch Into Walnut Grove
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March 20, 2024
Photo Essay: California Architectural Creations In Clay, at Heath Ceramics
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March 16, 2024
Photo Essay: The Many Jesuses of Desert Christ Park, Restored and Resurrected
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March 08, 2024
Photo Essay: Desert Resort Living In a Mid-Century Modern Lodge
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March 04, 2024
It Took 42 Years, But I Finally Met Maxwell Caulfield (a.k.a. the "Cool Rider") from Grease 2
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February 25, 2024
Photo Essay: A Celebrity Estate for the Ages, the Kirk Douglas Residence in Palm Springs
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February 22, 2024
Photo Essay: A Modernism Week Shimmy Through the Shag House, Palm Springs
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February 18, 2024
Photo Essay: Luna Luna, A Forgotten Fairground Fantasy That Spins Once Again
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February 11, 2024
Photo Essay: A Covered Wagon Caravan Through Coachella Valley Preserve
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February 07, 2024
Photo Essay: Fueled By Jet Fumes and Fear of Missing Out at Ontario Airport
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February 04, 2024
A Four-Year Wait For Llama Love
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February 03, 2024
Photo Essay: Combing Through Hairstory at a Roadside Beauty Parlor Museum
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January 30, 2024
The Most Fun I've Had in California
I've just passed my "lucky" 13-year anniversary of moving to Los Angeles in January 2011—and when people hear where I'm from, they most commonly ask two questions:
- Do I miss New York?
- Which do I like better, New York City or LA?
- Swimming with otters
- Riding a Jeepney
- Riding the Warner-Carrillo Ranch Stagecoach
- Riding the Ghost Train of Griffith Park
- Going to Disneyland
- Going to Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights
- Goat yoga (especially with baby goats in Halloween costumes)
- Climbing onto the Wienermobile
- Attending Bob Baker Marionette Theatre puppet shows (especially Halloween)
- Attending Rose Parade-related events
- Singing with the Magical Holiday Parade in Toluca Lake
- Touring Garner Holt Productions' animatronic factory
- Anything having to do with Krampus.
January 28, 2024
Photo Essay: Good Fortune at the Cookie Factory, San Francisco
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January 25, 2024
Photo Essay: The Tonga Room, A Tiki Bar Survivor of Some Near Misses
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January 20, 2024
We Are All Made of Dots
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January 09, 2024
Photo Essay: A Last Look At Two Volunteer-Built Floats of the 2024 Rose Parade
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January 05, 2024
Photo Essay: The Rose Parade Started 2024 Off On a High Note
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January 01, 2024
Year In Review: 2023 Updates to Past Posts
At the end of each year now, it's no longer only about reflecting on the new experiences I've had over the last 12 months—but also recognizing how the world around me has changed.
And I can't help but document it.
That brings me back to some places—either physically or just mentally and emotionally—that I thought I'd be "done" with after one visit.
Unfortunately, the scales were tipped way too far in one direction last year. We lost many more people and things than we were able to save.
And, in some cases, it didn't have to be that way.
But life is loss—constant loss, in fact. And the sooner we come to terms with that, the sooner we can get to appreciating what we've got now.
One of my most devastating experiences is whenever I find myself saying, "I never got to go."
But as time passes, the sentiment changes. Now, increasingly, it's the heartbreaking statement, "I never got to go back."
Here are some of the updates I made to past blog posts in 2023, reflecting changes that happened in that year or developments that had happened previously but I only got to documenting that year.