TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

WHAT'S NEW?

I'm Curious : 

Will the advent of the Olympics really inspire the Powers That Are to end Homelessness in Los Angeles, or will the city put up facades that lie, kind of like the peasants did in Austria, to hide their poverty, when King Franz Joseph and his entourage came through?

Who even wants to be President of the United States any more? (A CEO earns more.)

What happened to my high school friend's children who were such brats twenty-five years ago? Did they grow out of it or are they demanding adults?

I Might Just Be Done With : Going to any event that advertises that FOOD TRUCKS will be there. 

So funny! : I went with a friend to an adult crafts class that was so childish (felt lady bug cut outs glued to magnets) that I told her I was going to have to start wearing a paper pinned to my shirt that said "If I'm lost please call my mother."

AM I WHO I KNOW? Impossible. I don't know anyone!

Celebrity I (once) met (just saying) : Marty Balin (Martyn Jerel Buchwald) singer/songwriter of the Jefferson Airplane who passed in 2018.

IF I COULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME : Late spring/early summer 2023.

I'M LISTENING TO : Coverage of the so called "riots" and "insurrection" which never happened in the last few days Los Angeles. (Someone get out a dictionary and show President Trump the true meaning of these words.)

INDULGENCE? I wish! A long deep soak in a pristine claw foot tub.

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : I've read no books from cover to cover in recent months, though I have skimmed. This question should be "What magazine article did you read in its entirety? 

Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Re/read : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris, 

Films I Recently Watched From Beginning to End : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen), The Hoax.

AM I WHAT I EAT?

I'm Drinking : black tea

I Just Overate : potato salad

I'm Craving : potato salad

I'M GETTING BETTER AT :  threading a sewing machine and filling a bobbin

I FEAR : The Republican agenda to break Los Angeles.

C 2025  Christine Trzyna

MYSTERIOUS DOODLES IN ANCIENT BOOKS : BBC REPORTS

Excerpts:

Centuries old books, manuscripts and printing plates often contain invisible etchings, mysterious letters  - and even doodles.  A new technology that maps the surface of these objects is bringing them to light.  ...

Lowe suggests that, through this new approach, there could be thousands of new discoveries waiting to be made, hidden in plain sight in libraries and art collections.  "People are starting to realize that 'relief information' is transforming our knowledge.  There must be objects in libraries all over the world that could benefit for this technology... It's about treating material objects as evidence, " he says.  "There's a lot that's known, but there's a lot more that can be, and I think that's an incredibly inspiring and exciting thought."

BBC - FUTURE - DOODLES IN OLD BOOKS

Using new technology, previously unseen doodles - as well as notes and good art - are being discovered impressed upon the pages of old books and manuscripts.  Were children having their way with their parent's precious books?  Were some of these images deliberate?

RED GIOIA ON THE BIZ

STAYING HOME VOGUE : CHRIS MANN

TINY HOUSES, LIVING IN RV's, and BOX CAR HOUSING

A few months ago I started reading e-books - on a cell phone.  I didn't think I could adjust but I did quickly.  I find myself reading around TINY HOUSES, LIVING IN RV's, and BOX CAR HOUSING.  I also read around these subjects on newish blogs and web sites.


Growing up there was this teeny tiny house that a spinster or widow lived in.  No one seemed to see the woman much, and everyone thought it a little peculiar that anyone would want to live in a one bedroom house, maybe a third the size of the houses in the neighborhood.  I'll never know the story about this woman.  There was another family that lived in a house almost old enough to be a log cabin.  People used to laugh and say there was so many of them in this house that they slept standing up.  They only had cold running water.  They all had beautiful complexions.  You felt as if their family had been in the area since pre-Colonial times. 

What's happening now is that "millennials" are finding independent living too costly to contemplate in Southern California.  If you cannot or will not live with home owner parents, and you really do want to leave home and go through traditional rights of passage, then you probably need to move away, or find some less conventional way to afford it, beginning with a TINY house, tiny enough that it could fit in an RV, or is made of a box car.

With some design background and exposure to architecture, I've learned that constructing these yourself is not for the timid or ignorant, and that you can buy them premanufactured. Like mobil homes, these are not really intended to be carted around the country on wheels like a gypsy caravan, but the living is similar, particularily if you find your legal place to park or place is far from electricity, sewer lines, and other water sources. 

Yet I've read stories of couples who have traveled (with laptops and wifi ready to work and earn money all over) and who have even reproduced and managed to prosper in these spaces.

Like everyone else, I have my dream house (having read an old book called Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House long ago), the kind of house that many people take for granted, but which I have never been close to owning.  The dream house lately has taken on some of the characteristics of the Tiny House.


Including - a very large covered over platform for outdoor living.

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