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Burbank is in the desert just northeast of LA, and we've got a fine array of birds to enjoy. My favorites are the predators, the red-tailed hawks and sparrow hawks and the occasional owl. Owls are so quiet and only out from dusk on, so you've really got to be lucky to see one. I hear them hoot more often than I get a look at them. Woodpeckers are common, black and white ones with bright red chests who frequent the telephone pole out back. There's an old blue jay who is always in my back yard, I'm pretty sure I see the same one all the time. Its feathers are getting gray. There's tons of hummingbirds, my next door neighbor put feeders all over her yard. Unfortunately the feeders also attract vermin like mice and rats. Western tanagers and quail are abundant, as well as a whole lot of small birds whose names I don't know. It's great to sit by my back window and see them in the trees and bushes outside, many have beautiful markings one can't see from a distance.

Cool photos! Add some pyro and it would look like a rock show.

Thanks PHILLYQ and catesta! Get well soon, catesta.

Come drive in Los Angeles, home of the tailgating, gutterballing, roadraging, cell-phone-using, weaving-all-over-the-road hordes, each of them convinced that they are THE most important person on the road. Placing them behind the wheel of a high-performance car only increases the likelihood of assinine driving behavior.

Sometimes there can be a problem with the way the tracks are encoded. I've gotten bad mp3s from eMusic which have a rhythmic skipping noise.

How horrible. RIP Mr. Busby.

Thanks Jim, David, and Mark! Conn, Free, SS1, Barak, Dolan, BFrank, B-3er, and Joe all joined me in Live Chat last night for some drunken ramblings and good tunes. It was great!

Thanks Marcello and Shawn!

The most interesting part of this is that the shooter is a woman. Between this and the psychotic astronaut lady strapped in diapers, it seems the women are making an effort to catch up to we men in terms of being complete idiots.

Thanks guys! Love the signature photo, Evan.

Now spinning my favorites from Go, Our Man In Paris, Tangerine, and The Panther in Dexter's honor. I'll be listening to the 3cd live set I bought from Conn a while back tonight.

I couldn't have gotten a better birthday present than this.

Thanks again! Free's got himself a new gig, today's his mf birthday!

Hell yeah! Congratulations Free! A prestigious gig, don't let it go to your head.

What Ron said! Congratulations on a successful trip/show, organissimo and Barak!

Thanks everybody!

Up. This was my favorite of Christiern's threads. Sadly, the attachments are no longer active.

I've gotten that one before, Dan. It looks very similar to a Paypal confirmation spare a few details.

Must be one of those girly-man psychiatrists.

I don't recall the backlash to Norah being so horribly negative--it was more sarcastic with lots of clowning around. Not "hatred."

Terrible news. RIP DJ.

I hear the Kidd rumor is very doubtful. Lakers have dropped six in a row. Radmanovic is out. The wheels have come off.

Really dig his version of "Speak Low" from the Mosaic.

$350,000, my music expenditures account. The Swiss accounts are secure.