From the flickr stream of mike_s_etc comes this nighttime capture of what the author calls "The L.A. Money Shot."
From Mike's photo notes: "As seen from Mulholland Drive looking southeast. I call this the LA money shot. You see this, or variations of it, on countless postcards. What's also cool about this capture is you can see the relative heights of the major buildings in Los Angeles."
If you like this image, I highly suggest checking out the Los Angeles set on mike_s_etc's photo stream.
We made it up to Griffith Park Observatory yesterday evening in time for sunset. It was a great way to afford our guests from NYC a commanding view of Los Angeles.
AB gestures out to the Hollywood Hills as RF peers on. All this could be yours... (As L.A. residents.)
The Fake Angeleno and AB look like they're running for L.A. City Council... Or doing a public service announcement for the Sierra Club of Hollywood.
I suppose I could have theoretically eaten outside on the stoop of my Brooklyn apartment. But that would have involved a constant vigil against drunken old Polish men and the occasional stray subway rat. So it ought to come as no surprise that my excitement about our new outdoor dining equipment is rather disproportionate to its actual "wow" factor.
Still, when we were sweating it out amidst another humid New York August last summer, we hadn't yet imagined that something as simple as grilling some veggies out back and then dining al fresco -- with the setting sun and Pacific breeze as dinner guests -- was possible.
In other weekend news, we had been planning on attending the launch party for the new Angel City Press book, Paradise Promoted, but we had to cancel at the last minute. The subject of the book is the L.A. "boosterism" movement that flourished here between 1870 and 1930, inducing fatigued Easterners and Midwestern rubes to migrate West by the hundreds of thousands.
In many ways, boosterism is still alive and well, wouldn't you say?
