Another Day in LA

Oh the photographs one can take at a 826 store!


The very hard to capture without a glare entry window at the Time Travel 826LA in Silver Lake.


JR and the dinosaur eggs behind sliding glass doors


Just in case I ever decide to open one of my McSweeney's subscriptions, this is what the inside of the head box contains.


Beer bellies in the terrarium.


No one can beat these doughnuts - one year old or 26 years of age, they are the winners of this vacation's search.


Moving on down the street... if it wasn't a 99 cent store, it might as well be.


The pigs may have had help in the arranging of this photograph.


The nearby bookstore also on Sunset that featured this lovely zine cover introducing...


... the LA River near Adam's house. Egrets, herons, and...


... clever graffiti.


Jack Nicholson in Chinatown at Silver Lake in 1974.


Silver Lake 37 years later.


Cats on a "No Parking" sign and...


... DIY handicapped parking stencil (?).

Two Lists Featuring Google Searches

Matt Belanger's Google Search for 2005

The first is from one of my favorite sources.

"Things I Have Needed to Google While Writing Poems to Turn In to My MFA Workshop"
Daniela Olszewska

"Train cases, blue lung, marines uniform underwear, correct pronunciation of caesura, suicide tree house cult, koi ponds, psikhushkas, doll with a head at both ends, how to defer student loan, yogurt mountain birthday club, Gwendolyn Brooks, can a penis literally break in half(?), circumstances under which you can sue your landlord, glove sizes, coach of Alabama football after Paul Bear Bryant, synchronized PMS, Mike the Headless Chicken—Colorado, queer heterosexualitied [sic], Polish vodka delivery to Tuscaloosa, how to build a sundial, [ex's name], types of beads that can go on a cardigan, rhyming dictionary, cloning elephants, elephants contagious disease, make up artist in movie Casino, diagram of steamboat, ingredients in egg cream, summer creative writing teaching jobs, dream interpretation: teeth falling out, Edward Gorey's coyote fur coat, Simpsons monorail song, [different ex's name], [name of press publishing the different ex's first full-length collection of poems], [name of woman mentioned in different ex's writer's bio], clonazepam, did umbrella stands exist in flapper era(?), ace of base all that she wants lyrics, cockroach poison safe for cats, Anne Sexton naked, Anne Sexton swimsuit, pink cowboy boots, varicose veins, best font for cover letters."

The second is a growing collection residing as a Sticky note on my desktop:
Words People Have Googled to Find My Website:

"Headclamps for photographic portraits"
"Jacinda Astoria"
"clamp ear self facial torture"
"hair over face"
"comic books shredded destroyed burned"
"Fear of Schizophrenia photography"
"inkjet insulator aggregation"
"smoked incessantly"
"ball made from foil from cigarette packs"
"jacinda naked"
"russell from device"
"Jacinda Arizona"
"Jacinda Mask"
"Wunderkammerkasten"
"artist statement about in her self portrait drawings"
"photography series griefing object"
"wrapping things in foil schizophrenia"
"jacinda let go"
"How to photograph muddy footprints from a crime scene"