From time to time, I write about Southern California, where I am from. I haven’t lived there since 1989, but I’ve never stopped feeling like “Los Angeles” (by which I mean the general area, not the specific city) is my home town. I was born in Pomona, which is located about 30 miles due east [...]
Las Vegas, Night & Day
I’ve been in Las Vegas this week for the CES. Tonight, I was over at the Venetian Hotel for dinner; apparently, this is the night that people arrive for the AVN Expo, which starts tomorrow, and they all stay at the Venetian. In May of last year, I wrote this column on Sin City and [...]
Der Bürgermeister der Burgerstadt
There’s something satisfying and elegant in a basic hamburger. Cooked ground beef in a bun. What could be easier? And yet, so much can go wrong. Lately, I’ve come to fully appreciate my deep abiding love for a good burger. On my recent trip to L.A., I landed at LAX only to find that my [...]
Out on the California highway
As I have mentioned in a couple recent posts, I was recently in Las Vegas for a convention. Afterwards, I took a trip out to California to see my family. As has been mentioned numerous times, I am from the Golden State originally. To a large extent, I still think of it as my home, [...]
Vegas Wrap-up
Sorry for my absence, but I was out of town for nine days and I’m still catching up. Here are some thoughts on the CES conference. If you know anything about hi-def TV, you’ve heard of the formats 720p and 1080i. The grotesque simplification is that the two formats are trading off number of lines [...]
Vegas, Baby!
I’ve been off the radar for a little bit, but I’ve been busy. I’m in Las Vegas this week for CES. I’m in a swank hotel at the southern end of the Strip; my window is on the west side, so I look out into the desert. This photo was shot of the view I [...]
Men in Manhattan
I was extremely fortunate that be able to spend an afternoon during the holidays hanging in Manhattan with my old pal Dave (mentioned occasionally on this blog). We wandered, we ate, we talked. Most excellent. I’m from L.A. originally; Dave is from the Bay Area, but now lives in the Valley. I’ve been on the [...]
My weekend at the lake
This weekend, I went away to a friend’s lake house in Virginia. It was a real pop culture weekend. There’s a dock down by the water. Stepping onto it all I could think of were movies: Indian Summer, Friday the 13th, The Deep End. I’ve been on docks before, but there was something about the [...]
The streets of New York
I’m up in New York City this week on business. Tonight, a little after 11:00 p.m., I took the camera out around the area between Times Square and Radio City Music Hall and grabbed a few shots. You want to know a good way to avoid 9/11 memorial burn-out? Go to NYC and spend all [...]
Year One: Frankie Dissed and more
This week, I will be celebrating my one-year anniversary of this blog, by taking a look back over some highlights (at least, as far as I’m concerned). If we go all the way back to the beginning, I ran this site some years back, but let it go in the Fall of 2000. In fact, [...]