Pagoda Styled Craftsman – select to enlarge; note “for sale” sign When I moved into Garvanza during the previous real-estate bust, I had heard rumors of the Pagoda home. I assumed it was the red and green roofed Ave 64 abode. The one I gaze down upon from my “Lewis Tract” hillside home. Turns out [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Garvanza’s Lost Pagoda
October 16, 2011
Elysian Fields
October 7, 2011
The superficial inducement, the exotic, the picturesque has an effect only on the foreigner. To portray a city, a native must have other, deeper motives – motives of one who travels into the past instead of into the distance. A native’s book about his city will always be related to memoirs; the writer has not [...]
Trash Tuesday #83: Where Getting it Cheap is Part of the Esthetic
October 4, 2011
Unlike our wealthier neighbors to the north, we in the ‘adjacents’ have been known to entertain a few illegal(s) – farm animals. For example; The fellow at the end of the block, short a hen but long on cock. The plaintive bleet of a well hidden goat. And the bane of my existence, the multitude [...]
