Dixie Jane she caused me pain When she found a brand new beau And Judy she's a cutie But she stole my GTO With Laurie it was gory She ran off with Jon Allee And Virgie down in Birmingham She moved to gay Paree
Sorry Pas Adjacent...Mr. E wins in my book!!! Except for the fact that my ex lives in Georgia...a recent move from Viet Nam...I preferred it when he was on a different continent...
In December of 2007, after many years on the west side of Los Angeles (and at least a third of those years spent stuck in traffic on Pico Boulevard) my family settled into a happy little house in South Pasadena. This daily blog covered over 4 year as I put down roots in my new home town.
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Thank you Charlie's Coffee House for hosting my recent photo exhibit, South Pas: Observed. From October 2011 through January 2012 my pictures graced the walls of the best place in town to get a cup of coffee!
Read the nifty story on photo bloggers Petrea Burchard, Ben Wideman, Kat Likkel and little old me featured in the September, 2011 issue of Pasadena Magazine.
For over 4 years, I presented a picture a day from South Pasadena, California -- an incorporated city within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. All photos up to November, 2008 were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix E900 camera. I added a Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD megazoom in December 2008, a Nikon D3100 in 2010 and a Lumix DMC-DS8 in 2011. I shot with them all. In August 2010 I joined the iPhone camera craze and sometimes included pictures captured by my phone. I regularly cropped images and used basic editing software to adjust the brightness, intensify the contrast, and increase color saturation. Other than that, all images came straight from the camera with minimal alteration. (If I couldn't have done it in a darkroom, I wouldn't do it with a computer.)
The bigger picture:
Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
You can click on any picture to see a larger version.
All photos and prose on this blog copyright Laurie Allee. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. (Plus, it's really uncool.)
Run, don't walk to the nearest bookseller and pick up a copy of Margaret Finnegan's delightful debut novel, The Goddess Lounge -- undoubtedly the kookiest, most wonderful riff on Homer's Odyssey ever written. Margaret never ceases to inspire and make us laugh at her blog Finnegan Begin Again. Her book is magical, silly, smart and a wonderful love letter to the all the goddesses among us.
Our very own Altadena poet Linda Dove weaves words into thoughtful tapestries in her moving poetry collection In Defense of Objects and chapbook O Dear Deer.
Kevin McCollister of East of West LA blows our minds with haunting images of Los Angeles. But since we can't put his blog on our coffee table, we can buy his fantastic book. I believe Kevin's images truly capture the quixotic and often heartbreaking soul of LA. Don't take my word for it, see what The LA Times had to say.
27 comments:
The old cow hand from the Rio Grande lost his way in South Pasadena.
All my ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
But all my ex's live in Texas
And that's why I hang my hat in old South P
Musical Interlude
Dixie Jane she caused me pain
When she found a brand new beau
And Judy she's a cutie
But she stole my GTO
With Laurie it was gory
She ran off with Jon Allee
And Virgie down in Birmingham She moved to gay Paree
Oh (Mostly) All My Ex's Live in Texas....
Slim
scarecrow?
Y'all are doing great today! And it's only 9:30.
Mr. E - you are just too cute and clever today!!
Mr E was walking by
with straw hat in his hand
he stopped to scratch his head
you see
and left it on the stand
LA walked by and saw it there
and thought " I'll pose the question"
for all my blogger friends
to come and give me their suggestion
it was so hot in SoPas that even the lamp standard needed a sunhat!
Forget it, Barbara wins with "slim"
Oh God. I just noticed "Slim!" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That wins hands down.
Simple IS best.
Didn't know this was a contest, but I guess...
I'M THIS
Well all I can add is that at one time , "All My Ex's Lived in Texas" and I"M SO DAMN GLAD!
And Earl,
Thank ya darlin' for reminding me of this song that I dearly love.
V
Earl,
J'taime darlin!
If you see a hat
go 'round back.
But now ex is livin is Virginia!!!! How's that for poetic justice!
I swear I'm done now. Nighty night!
V
I'd say" "Hello, visitor!"
(I like this. I makes me smile.)
Ha
Guess what I discovered on my walk tonight? If I had liked it, it would have been my next "Trash Tuesday"
Hey, pardner. Hang around here often? (http://www.templecitydailyphoto.blogspot.com
He looks like he's waiting for his lady love.
Nice, everyone!
Sorry Pas Adjacent...Mr. E wins in my book!!! Except for the fact that my ex lives in Georgia...a recent move from Viet Nam...I preferred it when he was on a different continent...
whoa weird, that's my house. not to be off topic or anything but i think the gardeners or the people from waste management left it there.
Welcome, Chowow! Thanks for offering a great topic of conversation. Or, maybe we should thank your gardener! :-)
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