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Music permeates North Hollywood Arts District on the first Thursday of every month with Hear NoHo, a nascent showcase of local musicians performing in community venues spanning the community. I’d written about the series debut a few months ago. I even took photos then. My work makes up the bottom banner at HearNoHo.com. But, [...]

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Anonymous tip leads police to dead body in car trunk. My hood.
http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/id/D96PJTBO5
I can see the killers now: “Who knew we did that? Who owns a fax machine? Oh your ol’ lady! Get her!”
We gotta watch out for each other VV Massive. Throw ya VV up!

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Play while you read: “Blinded By The Light” - Manfred Mann
Thirty-six hours straight! When someone asked me what I was up to this weekend, that’s how long I claimed I was going to sleep. I figured that was about how long it would take for life to finally leave me alone. If I could sleep [...]

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Song of the day: “Hologram Buffalo” by Brightblack Morning Light
On Wednesday I went to the beach before work. I saw three great morning sunlight photographs I wanted to save but had no camera. Thursday morning I had hand therapy and could not go back. This morning I left the Valley with camera in the back [...]

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Play this while watching: “Dog House Blues” - Bill Monroe

The adventures of Peri and Sophie at the dog park, gettin’ into all kinds of good clean trouble. Dont forget to hit the music playbutton too. Wish they could sync up. Thanks to Greg for coining the term “DPU”.

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Play this: “Alligator Wine” - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
It’s just another day in the Valley:
“That’s kind of the problem with wild animals - they do grow.” - Kathy Davis, assistant general manager of Snark & Sarcasm the Los Angeles Animal Services Department
Alligator found in Valley home - LA Daily News.

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“Advance Cassette” - Spoon
I took a bikeride in the Valley on a scorching summer afternoon. I rode by this wonderful bit of “found art” near the 170 overpass on Chandler. There was a drug deal going on, so I just kept on going of course. But, an hour later I circled back on the return [...]

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Music to read by: “Cameras in California” — Kirk Wheeler
“Thanks for nothing,” I say to the editor who writes headlines like “Photog Allegedly Assaulted 3 Aspiring Models“  This salacious story of a man arrested for allegedly luring girls to motel rooms under the premise of photographing them to make them stars — only to then [...]

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Listen to this while you read: “Transmission” - Joy Division
Life isn’t perfect.
I know this isn’t a shocking revelation. But, sometimes I’m reminded of this in funny little ways.
About a half a mile from where I live in the urbanish San Fernando Valley sits a large and lonely radio transmission station. An otherwise-vacant city block supports [...]

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While it may seem that just about anybody can rob a bank, you do have to at least keep your gun out of the hands of the other bank customers. “Can you hold this for a second while I put this cash in my “$$$” sack?” But, really — bank patrons ganged up on this [...]

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