on another note...

i took the girls into los angeles on saturday, to shop around the garment district. it was madness; people friggin' everywhere, but the prices are good, even if the clothes are shit, and we all had fun.


this is santee alley, which is like a shopping mall after a cycle in a trash compactor... everything for sale under the sun, and half the poulation of l.a. county out to see. everywhere you looked there were bootleg dvd's for sale... titles like saw III, monster house, snakes on a plane, et cetera, et cetera, all for five bucks. i was tempted, but y'know, since it's been by the whim of the film gods that i've been granted bed and board all these years, i simply couldn't do it.

later, on the way home, we took a spin around the disney concert hall:


they say a picture's worth a thousand words... here's one more -- call me long-winded.