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DSC03606a a photo by neonspecs on Flickr.

This is my birthday cake. My grandmother makes it every year. It is unbelievably awesome.

Flashing lights.

Most of you know that I am more than passingly interested in Los Angeles history. As such, I read lots o'blogs about this stuff with some irregularity. I RSSfeed Dear Old Hollywood (what are the grammar rules involving blogs? I am going to assume they are italicized and individual posts are put in quotation marks and not look this up) and "Hollywood's Earl Carroll Theatre" turned out to be really swell, although not as much because of the post as because of one of the comments.

The Earl Carroll Theatre also had a clever way of displaying their neon sign at night - the THEATRE part would flash EAT, then AT, then THE, then THEATRE.

Get it? I love that. Thanks, "Matt." By the way, the theater is now Nickelodeon's studio in Hollywood.

Reyner Banham Loves LA and Laura Loves Reyner Banham

I really should have tagged all these posts I write about Reyner Banham, but now, perhaps, it's too late to start. This is a really awesome picture of Banham cycling on a dry salt lake in California! Awesome! Thank you East of Borneo.