Underground Diaries
Airline: Gun fired on plane “accidental,” pilot “merely brandishing to impress for sex”
Turns out the gun that discharged “accidentally” in a US Air cockpit was no big deal, though the airliner admitted that, like the face-shooting “hunting” incident involving Vice President Dick Cheney “there were some beers.” Still, the company maintained, “at no time was the flight crew doing shots of duty-free Jägermeister.”
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Airport Nipple Ring Incident Inspires Area Man
VENICE, CA — When is a humiliating nipple-ring-removal-at-
airport-security-checkpoint incident actually a good thing? The short answer: Never.
Alley Cottage
Venice, California
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Amerikan Traditionalist
“I got my first tattoo when I was thirteen,” says Kevin Hinton. We sit at the bar in Hama Sushi, across the street from Venice’s Old Glory Tattoo Parlor, the shop Hinton has owned and operated since 2005. I wonder who, in America, tattoos thirteen-year-olds.
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AMONG THE SWINGERS
Never have I witnessed the depravity I witnessed among the swingers…That was going to be my opener. But then I didn’t really witness any depravity among the swingers and thought to reconsider. (I did. I’m sticking with my gut.)
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Antler House
Venice, California
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Apartment Building (Marsh & Russell)
Circa 1905
Early Marsh & Russell apartments in the old canal district. Like several other, contemporary Venice designs, the building is evocative of the Prairie School architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mentor, Louis Henri Sullivan.
San Juan Ave
Venice, California
Apartment House
Circa 19TK
Riviera apartment building.
San Juan and Riviera
Venice, California
Arnoldi Triplex (Frank Gehry)
1980 by Frank Gehry
Venice, California
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Art Cars, Highway Stars
Didrik and I saw off this art caravan in San Francisco’s East Bay then caught up again with them in Arizona for the last leg of their drive to the border town of Douglas, AZ. The art cars all attracted all kinds of attention, none more so than Rebecca Caldwell’s Carthedral, which nearly sent several passing motorists motoring off the road.
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