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I don’t really have any. MCQ, someone I know from blogging at KB, is in town this weekend, so I might try to meet up with him. Other than that I just want to go bike riding and photo-taking.

Yesterday I took Nathaniel and his friend Dillon into downtown L.A. We went to the Disney Concert Hall to take pictures. I don’t have any developed yet. It’s one of those crazy buildings designed by Frank Gehry, it looks like a piece of crumpled up garbage from the air. (We just saw Get Smart and there are scenes filmed there, which is what made me want to go take pictures there.) Here’s a picture Dillon took of it. It’s cool because you can actually walk up inside the structure, and you’re outside, but you’re hidden from view. This shows you what I mean.

After that we walked over to MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art. There is a big sculpture there all made from industrial metal parts, like pipes and pieces of airplane wings and stuff. Basically a bunch of trash all wired together.

Then we went to Olvera Street, which is the oldest street in LA and seems like a little piece of Mexico right in the middle of the city. It’s pretty cool. There are these little shacks full of vendors selling shoes and Luche Libre masks and hand puppets. We got tacos and took pictures, hoping the light hadn’t faded too much for my film to turn out. The sun was going down.

So that was yesterday. Here’s a bike ride from the day before on the Santa Ana River Trail (again). About the ending: Well, I’ll just say Nathaniel doesn’t take direction very well. His understudy came to the rescue, though.

Soundtrack: Ladyhawk - “S.T.H.D.”

I just googled that song title to see if I could figure out what that abbreviation stands for. Some possible meanings:

Stored Heading
Sheikh Trust for Human Development
Southern Tier Harley-Davidson
Student Technology Help Desk
Strap Tie Holdown

Any other ideas? Shut The Hell Down?

And happy birthday to Dillon. (The only one of my kids who actually reads my blog.)