Lucite Meets Leather In WeHo

Every year I look forward to the West Hollywood Citywide Garage Sale and this year did not disappoint! I found the Lucite side-table hiding under some hats, just waiting for me to spend $30 on it. I've been looking for YEARS for some Lucite pieces, so this was a SCORE! At the end of the next day, I discovered this antique Egyptian camel saddle for only $10!!! It belonged to the owner's grandparents, who brought it back from a trip over 40 years ago. Amazing how it all goes together in my living room, next to the free chair I got from a neighbor many years ago. 

Living the thrifty and glamourous life... Miss Absinthe

Walking Around WeHo

Wandering Wandering Wandering...

Whoever rented this unit may be calling Ghostbusters, cause this is the apt that three guys were shot and murdered in, two weeks after I moved into the neighborhood!

Do you think the landlord told the new tenants?

This grasshopper hasn't moved in three days. What a way to go... death by flower!

Steve Martin vying to fill Rodney Dangerfield's shoes by not getting any respect.

This is the same artful racist who tagged the drain pipe I found earlier.

I'm documenting each one I find. What is the story here???

I followed the cork's instructions... by seizing it and taking it home.

Until next time... Miss Absinthe

One Roll of Film - Four Photos - Five Months

My favorite self-portrait thus far,using a parking mirror

on Laurel Ave,West Hollywood.

I love the serendipitous red triangle created by the light leak/parking sign/car driving by and the picture within a picture/juxtaposition of the trees.

I'm a sucker for a pink octopus!

This weathered and rusty trunk had an old military address and was sitting unguarded in the back of a strange truck that was made from parts of different vehicles... I call it a Franken-truck. I really wanted to know what was inside, but I didn't tempt fate that day.

Who says you can't be an artist AND liberal AND bad ass?

From my first day ever at a shooting range, learning the responsible/right way

to handle a weapon. Still a pacifist though...

Until next time... Miss Absinthe

BBQ and Fuck You...

Some moments cannot be ignored and this one just screamed out for immortality...

This pic turned out even better than anticipated, with the frame within frame and the male counterpoints.

Love it when this happens!!!

Strangely enough AND I"M NOT JOKING, when Sweetie-pie and I left the restaurant (Baby Blues BBQ in Weho), another guy walked by us in a different shirt that just said Fuck You on the back.

I took this pic the day of my foot accident... Were the gods trying to tell me something???

Until next time... Miss Absinthe

Shameful Blight on Swall

Once a beautiful little house built in the 1930's, then sold and left empty for years (due to owner unable to get permits to tear down and put up condos), put up for sale again, then caught fire (hmm) last December 2008 and has been in this sorry and very sad state since. And it's still for sale! This may sound pie-in-the-sky, but since it needs to be torn down anyway and it's made no $$$ for years, why not turn it into a pocket park for a neighborhood who could use a little "greening" and take the tax break for donating the land to West Hollywood?

Until next time... Miss Absinthe