This site is my personal project, wherein I post content for my friends. There is a bunch of stuff here, including my photographs and recommendations from travel and life in general. It's what I think (or have done), what I've learned or where I've been, and what people ask me about most frequently. 

Please take a moment to sign my Guest Book (link is above)--then enjoy! 

  Downtown L.A. from the 6th St. bridge; Traxx Bar in Union Station

(To see all the photos from the City Lights shoot in August 2010, start here.)

One of my favorite cooking magazines devotes its entire issue to Los Angeles and our food.  Great stuff inside. 

   The 28th Amendment's time has come.  Actually, it's overdue.

      Click the ribbon for Art & John's 9/11 Excellent Adventure

"I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts."
-- Will Rogers

"Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back in bed again."
-- Will Rogers

"Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Congress...but then I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain

"There are two things the public should not be allowed to see being made:  sausage and politics."
-- Various, including Otto Von Bismarck

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
-- Harry Truman 

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
-- Edward Langley

"You can always count on politicans to do the right thing when there's nothing else left for them to do."
-- Jack Sunderland

"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve."
-- de Tocqueville

"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess.  They always run out of other people's money."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
--Thomas Jefferson

"For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to be an American."
--Anonymous

"Nancy Pelosi keeps talking about how she was going to 'drain the swamp.'  This is unfair to swamps."
--Daniel Henninger, in "The Great Guy Theory of History"