I just received the latest power bill over the weekend, and though it’s not a small number is more than 30% off of last year’s figure for roughly the same period. It’s been amazing to be able to open the place up and let air from outside move through in the middle of August. Usually [...]
Today was a simply gorgeous day, and it seemed to be a crime to stay cooped up in the studio (at least until the sun fades for the day). So I decided to take my laptop desk and perch it on the porch to blog for a bit and enjoy some sunshine through the trees.
It’s [...]
I’m working on an article for the SCORECast online web portal, and decided to dig up a classic tome on music, sound and psychoacoustics – The Psychology of Music, by Carl E. Seashore. It’s a 1960s era work, and I expected it to be hard to find. To my surprise I found not only that [...]
Here’s an interesting thing folks may not see much outside of California. It’s actually somewhat subtle, and if you blink you might miss it. I was walking into a local cafe for breakfast this morning (Vivian’s on Ventura) and noticed this. Someone actually chained the potted trees to the adjacent wall.
It makes sense – this [...]
I was coming back from an errand in Burbank and was – well – kind of stunned to see a plaque depicting Vlad Tepes in the window of a local store.
I looked up to see that it was Transylvania Film & TV. The little statue of a Legosi-esque vampire helped to soften things a bit [...]
