Angels and Others

and we're in West Hollywood. Now that our friends at Time/Warner have connected us once again to the outside world we'll have posts a plenty to let you in on all the news of our big transition. More later. kisses

It has been brought to our attention that some of our readers ( you know who you are) may not be familiar with Domo Kun. Seeing that some one has recently queried "What up with that purple thing with the fangs?" ,we thought we'd bring everybody up to speed. Domo (どーもくん, Dōmo-kun ) is the mascot of Japan 's NHK television station, appearing in several 30 second stop-motion sketches shown as station identification during shows.The name "Domo" was acquired during the second episode of his show in which a TV announcer said, "doumo, konnichiwa" (どうも、こんにちは, "doumo, konnichiwa" ? ), which is a formal greeting meaning something along the lines of, "Well, hello there!", or "Hello, Domo!", and thus is a convenient dajare . The kun suffix on "Domo-kun," the name used to describe the character in the Japanese versions, is a Japanese honorific often used with young males. Domo's official website at NHK is http://...

to sleeping in our own bed again but for the next few nights we're staying at a friends place in Culver City. While the Culver City of today is pretty cool in a hipster suburban sortta way The Culver City of the past is fab-u- los . Basically this little Los Angeles neighborhood used to be the back lot of the M-G-M studios. Now there's not much left from the old days but one of the best to an Oz head like me has to be the Culver Hotel: The Culver is most famous or in this case infamous for it's connection to the Wizard of Oz. This is the very hotel that housed the Singer Midgets or for those of you who dated as teenagers The Munchkins. The small unassuming building will go down in history as the sight of the worlds biggest all midget orgy. We've vowed to check out the rest of Culver City while we're here something about galleries and restaurants and blah,blah blah. But there's no way we're gonna miss seeing a piece of that yellow brick road inside the now S...

We just had to share a few shots of our temporary home in L.A. For the next week our so we're staying at the Writer Villa, a short term stay artist's residence in the Los Feliz "hills" . Our hosts are warm and very helpful and the villa is a quiet escape from the stress of apartment hunting and traffic. Our room. Our view Our private patio. We find it more than a little distressing that we will have to leave this and live in... THE WORLD but until then, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

...the slums of Hollywood for an apartment that someone DID NOT overdose in Domo enjoys the day at Universal Studios and hopes to see a movie star or eat a sno -cone. Domo doesn't care much one way or the other.