Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Culture

Church Bell Tower (with DirectPray)

Yesterday, I had to drive to an appointment. On the way, I took this picture of a church tower. Since yesterday was the National Day of Prayer and because of the prominent location of the little dish, I figured this must be the latest contrivance of this “progressive church” in California.

steeple-dish.jpg

A progressive church — you know, they have names like “Ocean Shore Church” — will customize the seven sins and ten commandments to fit the more progressive California lifestyle so liberals can feel good about being in church without really having to abide by any hard-line church rules.

04 May 2007 by Culture Photography Satire

Satanic Hearses

Well it’s not actually a hearse — I was just kidding about that to make the headline sound like Salman Rushdie’s famous fatwa-worthy manuscript.

This ghastly paint job is actually on a black pickup truck seen in Trump’s parking lot last weekend. I can’t really make out if that is a shrunken head hanging from the real-view mirror or not. We didn’t wait around to see if the driver had “half of the tackle box pierced into his face” (to quote Dennis Miller), but it wouldn’t have surprised me. The whole burning-in-hell effect sorta creeps me out.

satanic paint job

25 Apr 2007 by California Culture Photography

Psychedelic School Bus

During my lunchtime walk, I spotted this interesting-looking vehicle parked behind the mall. One side was an undersea scene and the other side was parrots in trees. I did not see or smell any hippies, however.

psych-bus5.jpg

19 Apr 2007 by California Culture Photography

Vincent Van Gogh

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Vincent Van Gogh. We were fortunate enough to have been able to see many of his works a few years ago when “Van Gogh’s Van Goghs,” his paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, were exhibited in Los Angeles.

From InfoPlease:

Born in 1853, Van Gogh’s works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life is thought to epitomize the mad genius legend.

During his lifetime, Van Gogh’s work was represented in two very small exhibitions and two larger ones. Only one of Van Gogh’s paintings was sold while he lived. The great majority of the works by which he is remembered were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity and intermittent bouts with epileptoid seizures and profound despair that finally ended in suicide.

One of the most famous of Van Gogh’s works is “Starry Night.”

starry-night

30 Mar 2007 by Arts Culture People

St. Valentine’s Day

valentineHappy Valentine’s Day! And especially to our deployed troops and to their families at home who miss their sweeties! Have a candy heart!

Remember that you can help the United Service Organization to provide special services to our troops like Operation Phone Home and Operation Music Download. These and the many other services provide the means for the troops to have a nicer Valentine’s Day or a nicer any other day. Please show your support today.

candy

14 Feb 2007 by Culture Military Photography

WTC Memorials in South Bay

wtc.jpgSeveral cities in southwestern Los Angeles County have erected memorials to the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and to victims of Flight 93. Among them are the cities of Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Lomita and Torrance. Now, the city of Redondo Beach will be joining the list as they expect to receive a 300-pound beam fragment from the WTC as a gift from FDNY. The Redondo Beach Firefighters have established a strong relationship with the New York Firefighters. Read about how the beam fragment came to be delivered to the city and about the experiences of the firefighters in the South Bay Daily Breeze article below the fold.

Continue reading…

01 Feb 2007 by California Culture Patriotism

Categories

Archives