Just Above Sunset
Volume 5, Number 10
March 11, 2007

Volume 5 - 2007

 The world as seen from Just Above Sunset -

"Notes on how things seem from out here in Hollywood..."

The 2007 Issues

All pages will open in their own windows…

2007 Issues, from the most recent, each week, all pages -

Volume 5, Number 9, for the week of March 4, 2007

Observations on Current Events

War Games - How One Learns What to Do

History Repeating Itself - The Man Who Would Rather Not Be King

The Law Laughs - Any Judge with a Sense of Humor Can Be Dangerous

Dunces by Choice - Evidence of a Real Conspiracy

Tracking Scandals - The Weekend Scandal List

The International Desk

Photographs from Our Man in Paris, Ric Erickson, editor of MetropoleParis - try some Paris Eye Candy.

Our Man in Tel-Aviv, Sylvain Ubersfeld, explains more of the real day-to-day over there, in Taxi Rider.

Verse

Sand (a poem) - from Phillip Raines

Southern California Photography

Hollywood -

Architecture -

Color Studies -

High Botanicals

 

For the Record

 

Deuces Wild - Hot Rod Heaven (photographs from Bob Patterson)

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Good Government

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas

Volume 5, Number 8, for the week of February 25, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Context - Deciding on the Right Frame of Reference

Fat Tuesday - Mardi Gras for News Junkies

Capitalism in Trouble - The News from Lake Wobegon is Discouraging

Creating Crises - Notes on Forcing Things to the Breaking Point

Imagining the Enemy - Making the Other Party Crumble and Submit, In Awe of Our Unshakable Will

The International Desk

Our Man in Tel-Aviv, Sylvain Ubersfeld, explains the real day-to-day there, in The Joys of Tenancy.  As James Thurber once said - "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

Southern California Photography

Making It Work - Setting Up for the Oscars on Hollywood Boulevard

 

Unsettling Graphics - "Streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent…"

Rainy Day Beach

Winter Light - The Long Shadows of Los Angeles

One Shot - Just Colors

 

Botanicals -

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Understanding Things

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas

Volume 5, Number 7, for the week of February 18, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Whatever It Takes - Iran Next

What We've Become - Normalizing the Unthinkable

Up for the Job - What Passes for Leadership

Just Getting Along - Undermining Valentines Day

Reputation - The Dangers of Who We Are

The Extraordinary - Some Things Extraordinary, Some Not

The International Desk

Our Man in Paris, Ric Erickson, editor and publisher of MetropoleParis, this week brings us his annual Rétromania! - a tour of that Paris automotive salon, with photographs.

 

Guest Photography

 

Valentine Snow (new photographs from Rochester, New York)

Georgia Ruins (photography by Phillip Raines)

Southern California Photography

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - Grammy Fallout

Down on the Corner - This Corner of Sunset

Quiet Hollywood - Well, It's Home

 

This Week's Noir - Darkly Glamorous Menace and All That

Not Hollywood - The Other Los Angeles

Sunset Elsewhere

Beach Truck

 

Botanicals

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Problems

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas

Volume 5, Number 6, for the week of February 11, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Behind the Throne - Notes on Who Is In Charge

Avoiding Connections - You Cannot Connect the Dots You Refuse to See

Tragic Vision - Bring It On!

Decisions - We Make Our Choices

Mysterious News - Attending to the Important Items

Keeping it Simple - "It's Complicated"

The International Desk

The International Desk was dark this week, so far. See last week's - Just in from Paris - "Doomsday Starts February 1st"

Southern California Photography

Hollywood

 

Color Studies - Tuesday on the Strip

Monochromes - Black is Always Hip

Hidden Landmark - The Hidden Home of America's Music

 

The Beach

 

Nightmare Beach

Objective Surrealism

Painted Walls

One Shot - Kosher Sex

 

Botanicals

 

White to Red

From the Top

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: On Silence

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas

Volume 5, Number 5, for the week of February 4, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Room at the Top - On Being Adept and Cunning Without Being Insightful

Why We Fight - What Manifest Destiny?

Design Flaw - The Actual Problem with the US Constitution

Connecting New Dots - Not Hard to See What's Coming

Guest Photography

Nice Doggie

The International Desk

This week - Just in from Paris - Doomsday Starts February 1st

Southern California Photography

Low Tide

Hollywood Grit

Hollywood Noir

Early Morning Palms

The Winter Water

Bird's Eye

 

Botanicals

The Car Corner - Double Fake

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Faking it

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas, archived at his site.

Volume 5, Number 4, for the week of January 28, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Epistemology Notes - Colors We Don't See

Political Language - The Limits of Careful Framing

The State of Things - The Speech at the End of the Universe

Making Decisions - Notes on Being Bold and Being Right

Guest Photography

Ice Images

The International Desk

Our Man in Paris - Odéon in High-Definition

Southern California Photography

Hollywood Lives! - The New York Times Says So

Faded Star Power - A Legendary Theater

Ominous Images - A Bit of the Surreal

Benign Images - Peace at the Beach

Two Manhattans - The Two Coasts

Beach Symmetry

Bold Bird

Just Add Bee - Botanicals

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Friendly Persuasion

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas

Volume 5, Number 3, for the week of January 21, 2007

Observations on Current Events

The Rare Bird - The Word from the Conservative Atheist

King Day - Appropriating the Past - The Furnace of Optimism Hijacked

Anti-Americanism - Considering the Decent Opinion of Mankind

Constitutional Law - Lessons Not Learned

Art Buchwald - Making the Most of the Absurd

It's a Wrap - Another Week Ends In a Mad Flurry

Who's Protesting? - The Sixties Are So Over

Guest Photography

The Ice Storm

Wrapped in Ice

Fire and Ice

Blanketed

 

Lady Liberty

The International Desk

The International Desk was dark this week.

Southern California Photography

The Golden Globe Awards - A Minor Visit to a Hollywood Event

 

Faded Glory - A Study of the Marquees of Hollywood Boulevard

 

Hollywood Graphics - Odd Images on Hollywood Boulevard

 

The Botanicals

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Certainty

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas, archived at his site.

Volume 5, Number 2, for the week of January 14, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Examining the Surge - The Devil in the Details

Theory and Practice - What Can and Cannot Be Done (by Congress in this case)

The Big Speech - The New Way Forward, with Six More Brigades, thus 21,500 More Troops

Provocations - Motivation by Primal Reaction

Appalled Attorneys - The Administration Calls for a Boycott of Major Law Firms

On the lighter side…

The International Desk

The International Desk was dark this week.

Southern California Photography

The Other New Year

Malibu Winter

No Heaven Here - The Angel of Melrose Avenue

Nightmare Women - The Magic Graffiti Women of Melrose

Melrose Walls - The Graffiti Keeps Changing

Exclusionary Marquees - Hollywood at its Coldest

This Week's Botanicals

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: Taking Action!

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas, archived at his site.

Volume 5, Number 1, for the week of January 7, 2007

Observations on Current Events

Stopping the Madness

Can we at least have a different new year?

 

Choose Your Outrage

So Much News, So Much to Consider

 

The First Day

The Democrats take control of Congress, but just who is driving?

 

What Is Coming

It's not looking good.

The International Desk

The International Desk was dark this week.

Southern California Photography

Odd Calm - A Quiet Afternoon on Sunset

The Trappings of Fame (Rock 'n' Roll Transportation)

Nightmare Shots

Dark Beach (Had Edward Hopper lived in Santa Monica)

 

The Birds and Bees

Botanicals

Diversions

Quotes for the Week: On Women (for the new Speaker of the House)

Weird, Bizarre and Unusual: Even More from Our Friend in Texas, archived at his site.

[Just Above Sunset] [Commentary] [The International Desk] [Photography] [Diversions] [About] [Archives - Search] [Volume 5 - 2007] [Volume 4 - 2006] [Photography Archives] [Links and more...] [The Web Logs]

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:30 pm Pacific Time

All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 - Alan M. Pavlik

BuiltWithNOF

 

.