Posted in Announcements, Books, Gardens on May 17th, 2007
Food Not Lawns
Heather Flores will be discussing and signing her book, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community, tonight at Vroman’s at 7:00 p.m.
Green LA girl has more information about Food Not Lawns here.
Posted in Caltech on May 16th, 2007
Yesterday was ditch day at Caltech. Here’s the official Ditch Day 2007 site, and here is some of what I saw on campus yesterday at lunch time:
Not a secret base
Face-off (that’s a dragon on the right)
Rubber ducks flying
Rubber ducks of questionable seaworthiness
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home, as seen from the sidewalk
Road work ahead
Covered wagon
Red winged box
Sudoku on the lawn
Unicycle near construction materials
Clue in an elevator
Hanging balloons with pointy-eared monsters
Extremely mysterious octagon
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2007
Mothers’ Day at the Vons on Washington
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2007
Great ideas by Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 license)
This cartoon at Gaping Void today made me think about all the uproar online about James Macpherson of Pasadena Now‘s hiring of Indian writers to report on Pasadena city council meetings.
Posted in Coffee shops, Hangouts, Holidays on May 13th, 2007
Cafe Culture carnations
Yesterday at Cafe Culture, the proprietor said she was giving flowers to all the ladies who came in, mothers or not.
Happy Mothers’ Day from Eye Level Pasadena to all of the mothers here in Pasadena and in the world!
Posted in Neighbors on May 12th, 2007
2020 Hindsight: Catalina Fire
“…I can’t explain it, but the thought of the island in flames brings me to tears. The mention of “Catalina” and “fire” in the same sentence just sets me off. I can’t figure out why.
“Well, okay, I know why. I grew up in a sailing family, and we’d spend about a week each summer on the boat at Catalina. More recently, I’ve gone to dance camp there. Blog Post 1, post 2. But those pictures and memories do not have the same power over me as this flood of Catalina memories:
“Rigging the flopper stopper (a device to stop the slop in the waves)
“Rowing the dinghy from boat to boat to visit our friends.
“Breakfasts of eggs and cantaloupe eaten in the cockpit, paper plate nested in a wickery basket backing. Grill toast (buttered english muffins, toasted by sauteeing face down in the pan).
“Avoiding the damn yellow jackets.
“Donning a swim mask with a friend and spending hours in the water pretending we are mermaids as we swim near the shore of the clear waters of Emerald bay….” (more)
Read the whole post. It’s beautiful.
Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food on May 12th, 2007
Tableau Vivante has some great pictures posted from this morning’s Farmers’ Market. One of the farms is selling apriums, and the way she describes them is making me salivate.
Posted in Books on May 12th, 2007
City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village by David Sucher
City Comforts blog: Distance sometimes provides objectivity
Sucher’s City Comforts is one of my favorite community building books. It shows how to arrange city space to encourage neighborly community interaction.
Posted in Office hours & bloggers' picnics on May 12th, 2007
Gavin and I will be at Cafe Culture today from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. More details here.
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Update: We’re at Cafe Culture now, and the proprietor just gave me a flower for Mothers’ Day weekend. She said she is giving them to all the ladies, mothers or not. Also, there’s wireless here.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2007
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James Macpherson in his own words
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May 14, 2007: Here’s a link to all of the posts I’ve made about Pasadena Now, too. I support what Pasadena Now is doing. I don’t support replacing local journalists with writers in another country, but adding writers to supplement the city council coverage we have now using videos and documents available online (like Pasadena Now is doing) seems like it could be a good thing for our community. I don’t think it could hurt. Adding someone to write articles based on interviews also seems like an interesting idea; I’m curious about how it will work out.
Pasadena Now is an online-only news site. Our other two main local news sources are Pasadena Star News and Pasadena Weekly, both of which publish online as well as in print and both of which are larger organizations.
Before this story broke, I met James Macpherson (the publisher of Pasadena Now) twice in person, and we also exchanged emails about our shared interest in using the internet for community building in Pasadena. He has used a couple of my photographs for Pasadena Now stories (for free), and he has also published work by other local bloggers. From my perspective he’s a neighbor and he seems like a nice guy. I like him and I like Pasadena Now.
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