Sunday in Silver Lake

The family and I decided we were overdue for an outing, so we opted to head over to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles for some lunch, and spot of shopping at zany emporium Wacko.

For lunch, we chose House of Pies -- one of those cool old coffee shops that you always mean to visit, but never quite get around to...

It was a lovely day!

Marley & Me book report

Yeah, I know you can't read it.

Trust me -- it reads as cool as it looks.

;-)

I think our puppeh might just be the cutest puppeh in the whole wide world.

All pix taken by Mr. Siegel and his rad digicam, the Canon EOS Rebel XTi.

It's got *frizzante*

I'm havin' this *redonk* pinot grigio tonite and... it's got BUBBLES!!! Super num.

It's from Contadino, and is available at Trader Joe's for the *absurd* price of $4.99! It's relatively lo-alcohol, so it's easier on your wine-gut and doesn't get you quite so hammered. (Just sayin'.)

::clink::

I never win ANYTHING!

But lookit this beautiful necklace I won!

To make it even more awesome, my friend Teal made it. She's so multi-talented. I ::heart:: her.

I hope all you yoginis out there will check out her yoga downloads. They are lovely... And I'm not even into yoga!

Thank you, Tealio! You are ::awesomesauce::.

Rad Music Blog

My friend Sean has a rad music blog. And yes, I'm just saying this because he sang my praises in this post and I'm all puffed-up now. BWHAHAHAHHAHA! No, really! It is an awesome blog! Check it out.

http://unclezekesmusicemporium.blogspot.com/

Saturday @ Grandma's

SPRING TRAINING!!! w00t

I am SOOOO excited!!! Even tho I'm a) mad at the Cubs for dumping Mark DeRosa (DUMBEST. MOVE. EVAR.) and b) mad at the Dodgers for continuing to pursue that asshat Manny Ramirez, thus encouraging him to behave like an egomaniac.

Today, the Cubs play the Dodgers at HoHoKam Park.

This right here is a pic of the new Arizona spring-training digs for the Dodgers. It's called Camelback Ranch (are there camels in AZ?) and is also the home to the stupid White Sox. ::grin:: Looks pretty rad and I'd like to check it out sometime!

Puppeh Park!

Here are some photographic highlights from today's trip to the puppeh park with Kels!

See that puddle? Kelsey *tewtally* laid down in that! Luckily, Dad is in the habit of bringing towels with us.

My boys finally met Maddy!

...oh, and her Dad was there, too. BWAHHAHAAHAHAAH!

Valentine's Day Lunch: Clifton's Cafeteria!

I decided that for Valentine's Day, I wanted to a) go to the jewelry mart in downtown LA and select some bling for myself; and b) eat at Clifton's Cafeteria. Clifton's is one of those truly rad old places in LA that you need to see if you never have; it's bizarre and fabulous and the walls ooze history.

Ev did not want to eat there, as you can see in this first photo. He did end up having some fried chicken, tho, and I think he was ultimately glad he got to check the place out. Besides, there was a legless guy sitting outside on his torso nub! That's not somethin' ya see every day. Thankfully.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I photographed our booty in between Kelsey passing thru to sniff it. (Whoa, that sounded wierd, huh. Heh heh.)

And another tattoo...

This is another pretty one.

But I have been advised by a peep that fairy tatts need to be relatively large in order to capture the detail. Soooo... Not sure this will be a good choice for me... We'll see.

Still just thinkin'!

Looking at tattoo designs...

I'm looking at tattoo designs again...

I want one on my right shoulder, which I would then somehow connect to the butterfly on my upper right arm... I figure if I go with something like this, I could have Julie then do a vine of flowers, or a sprinkling of stars, that would go up and over my shoulder, then connect with the b-fly...

Anyway, at this point I'm just chewin' it over. I do like this art, tho...

Coraline

THIS. MOVIE. IS. RAD.

I wish I could be more specific than that, but that's all I've got for ya at this juncture.

Halfway thru, I thought, "This is the most amazing movie I've seen in a loooong time." And if you are remotely interested in the technicalities of how it was made... well, that just makes it MORE amazing.

Really well-done. I hope y'all see it. Whether or not you have young'uns.

Again, I wish to state unequivocally, we do not let The Boy watch South Park.

But he is fascinated by the show in the abstract, and by the type of animation they do. He took a stab this weekend at creating his own little city of characters. He used little metal brads to make their arms movable. And as you can see, it is a multi-ethnic crowd as well!

SO cute!

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Watch out, Parker & Stone.

My child is also a construction-paper stop-motion animator, and he can KICK. YOUR. SENSE-OF-HUMOR. BUTTS.