More Cicada Club...

Had to add a few more...
Janet Klein was just SO fun to watch, even more fun to listen to!!
This couple in the 2nd picture could take an eye out with the way their limbs were flying all over the place!! :o) They were great, but they certainly cleared the dance floor!!
That last photo was taken from up on the Mezzanine... there is a cool bar/lounge up there where you can sit and watch or talk quietly.
They are one of the only places EVER that I've seen serves Pink Ladys!! :o)

Click on this last one (above) to see it better...

Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club!!

oh man... was that ever the coolest thing ever!!!
you've GOT to go. First, the building... The Oviatt Building (circa 1928). Sheer beauty.
Then there's the music... Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys... absolutely ADORABLE!! Get her albums from her web site (a complete discography) or there are two on iTunes!
Then there's the whole "event".... it's The Cicada Club, every Sunday night it happens, right there, 45 minutes away. It's a blast; bring those men!! They'll have a good time! (Don't let them tell you otherwise!! :o)
Tom was the BEST date EVER! He was SO generous and took such good care of me and made it the most fun... he's fantastic!!
There was a couple that got engaged right there on the beautiful stairway behind the band, during a fabulous Ella Fitzgerald song.
It ROCKED.
Oh, and there's also The Food: it was REALLY good, right up there with any nice restaurant, very good quality! Check out the menu on their web site!!

Cole's Birthday!!

Itinerary:
Picked up most of the kids from school in the Cruiser
Picked up Eli from his house
Picked up Matt from his school
Waited for one of the boy's mom to come and get his for a baseball game
Went to The District to see "Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull"
Went to Balboa to have dinner at Ruby's on the end of the pier in the pouring rain... it was very cool
The boy who left early for the baseball game joined us there for dinner after his game was done.
Left there, went home just after there was a major power outage in Balboa; the whole pier, the restaurant, all of the homes... eek.
Home for a while to play Wii and other games
Then out "Forking" (the hundreds-of-plastic-forks-in-the-lawn version of Toilet Papering) 2 houses
Then bed by 12:45 a.m.
Then up at 7 a.m.....
you get the picture!!
whew!!! What a weekend!! What a PARTY!! :o)

Our Cruisers... it's been really fun/hard/interesting owning these things. It's been SUCH a learning experience- something totally unexpected in my life, that's for sure!
The first picture is an event we did last Sunday - the Balboa Island Art Walk... there's our girl, working the booth! We gave them a full day of a shuttle for their guests & they put us on all of their advertising - t-shirts, posters, flyers, everything. Was it worth it?? Not sure yet; if we get some calls from it, we'll do it again next year. So far, not much from that event.
The other pictures are Tom & one of our drivers, John, working on the buses at our bus yard in Anaheim. If we don't keep those buses beautiful and in perfect shape, who KNOWS what could happen??
Maybe something like our buddy, Bob, who also runs a transportation company- he was supposed to have his driver pick up a wedding party last week to go to their reception after the ceremony - the bus got there and immediately didn't work anymore!! It was a DISASTER... we sent one of our Cruisers over there to pick up the screaming Bride for him... :oP

this is so beautiful...

This is the first photograph of a person.
Philadelphia, November 1839. "Robert Cornelius, self-portrait facing front, arms crossed. Inscription on backing: The first light-picture ever taken. 1839." One of the first photographs made in the United States, this quarter-plate daguerreotype, taken in the yard of the Cornelius family's lamp-making business in Philadelphia.
I love his face... the way he is looking at the camera.
Do you think he has ANY clue about what's to come??
How much what he is doing will change the world??

How about that HAIR?? This was way before mousse and gel... nice... :oD

"Centennial Bulb" still burning after 107 years : Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech

"Centennial Bulb" still burning after 107 years : Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech
and i thought i might be the only one mourning the loss of incandescent bulbs, i see this article...
this bulb even has it's own WEB SITE... :o)
www.centennialbulb.org

UL3-1212

It's gone... It's the end of an age.

I know cell phones are prevalent, but to get rid of "Time" and get rid of most of the pay phones... I just don't get it.

Do you?

I have been known to call "Time" quite often... I LIKE calling Time.

What if your cell phone is dead or not working?

Today: I ran out really quick to run an errand and didn't have my cell - I HAD to make a call but could I find a working pay phone - let alone a pay phone AT ALL?? It was horrible.

How do you feel about this?? This "Time" thing... did you know about it?? I've known about it a long time; because, as i've noted, i call Time alot.... :oP

Did you call it "Time", also? Did you think of the number as "UL3-1212??" Does that just show how old I am?? :oD

A Cool Download For Your iPod

It's a full broadcast day from September 21st, 1939... it's awesome.

Just pop it in your iPod and it's just like you're there!! (and by now you know how much that appeals to me!! :o)

Since We Live In FREEWAY LAND...

I remember once reading about how they number the freeways in California... I always wondered what the rhyme or reason was behind it- here it is...

One and two digit route numbers:
Odd. North/South, lowest numbers in the West.
Even. East/West, lowest numbers in the South.
Multiples of 5. MAJOR interstates that typically go cross-country.

Three digit route numbers:
First digit odd. Spur into metropolitan area (at time of route adoption).
First digit even. Spur around metropolitan area (at time of route adoption).
Last two digits. Indicate the route from which the spur or loop diverged.

i love tha photo... look how small the freeways seem (read: narrow), don't they?? That look like it might be the I-5 perhaps... ?? back before they made it a SUPER HIGHWAY...

I'll never forget- years ago, my brother was telling me about how he was driving down the 5 on his way to work in LA and he saw his binoculars sitting next to him on the seat so he decided to see what it would be like to drive while looking through the binoculars BACKWARDS. I laughed pretty hard at this (picture driving 65 mph while looking through the wrong end of those things...) andyway, I laughed even harder when I read this post in a weekly human interest column in The Register saying: "Spotted: a guy driving down the 5 fwy while looking through binoculars- BACKWARDS!!"

I thought that was pretty funny... ;o)

oh my... I've found something WONDERFUL

In doing a little sleepy web browsing last night I found this:

Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club in Los Angeles!!

I found it as I was looking at Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys- (http://www.janetklein.com/) Their sound is pure 20's jazz, absolute perfection!!!

I downloaded her album immediately on iTunes!! It's so great!

The neat thing is, I often will try to find old music wherever I can because I'm such a fan- here's a band playing the same thing and I could actually GO SEE THEM! That's novel... I like a band that is actually still alive!! :o)

We're going to the Cicada Club on May 25th to hear this band and have dinner!!

Wanna Come???!!! :o)

p.s. Check out that link above for the club- you'll flip.

when i go to new york...

I'm heading here...
The Village Chess Shop
I think I'd be too intimidated to actually play anyone but wOw... how cool would that be to check it out??
They've been open since 1972 in the same shop in the middle of Greenwich Village. People play until midnight every day. very cool...
I often day dream about carving my own chess set... It's one of those things I think about. I would make huge pieces that would be as long as the length of my hand and about 2-3 inches in diameter... I'd carve out a hole in the bottom in which to insert a nice weight, so that they're weren't too "light" feeling...
anyway, that's my plan... when I get the time!! :op

A New Fav....

I found a new blog that i've been enjoying -

The Saratorialist

it combines my love for photography, fashion and my love for faces/ for people and - finding the beauty that is in our everyday lives.

i love how photographs capture a moment, a split second and it stays there. I know i've spazzed on this before but it's so wild - you can listen to an old radio broadcast or look at an old photograph and it's THAT MOMENT. It's captured there, just for you to be a part of it, or for anyone who wants to 'take in' that moment as well...

why on earth does that kind of thing appeal to me so much?? :op