I Got Stabbed

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At around 8pm on March 10, 2021, I arrived at the Silverlake Station parking lot after a quick trip to the grocery store. I was making dinner for my wife, who texted me earlier from her office to tell me she would be home at 8:30 pm.…

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Salsa Heavy Metal: Rock y mercadeo transformaron la salsa en espectáculo

Músicos no cocineros. Fania All Stars en Venezuela en 1980. Primera fila: Yomo Toro, Roberto Roena, Papo Lucca, Adalberto Santiago, Johnny Pacheco, Reynaldo Jorge, Ismael Miranda, Puchi Boulong, Luigi Texidor, Leopoldo Pineda, Héctor Lavoe. Segunda fila: Anibal Vasquez, Eddie Montalvo, Rubén Blades, Pupi Legarreta, Santos Colón, Ed Byrne. Tercera fila: Juancito Torres, Sal Cuevas, Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez, Celia Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Nicky Marrero, Hector “Bomberito” Zarzuela. ©
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Cloudy LA

Even clouds look like CGI in LA

It’s nice when the normally wide and clear Los Angeles sky gets a few clouds. Lately that has been the case and we got a few needed inches of winter rain. But the sky today was decidedly weird. Gloomy

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Everything is fake

Typical California rocks

Last year, I hiked the MountRubidoux trail in Riverside, CA. It is more like a midsized hill with an American flag and a Christian cross at its summit. The hike is well-maintained and unchallenging, but it does well as a post-lunch afternoon hike. From the parking lot, the trail rounds the hill surrounded by interesting rock formations, just as the Kardashian monument I posted a few months ago.…

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