Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! All Playbill™ images are from my original copies. I visited New York City almost every year for 50... Continue Reading →
Another shot from San Francisco, in fact—if memory serves me right—it's from Chinatown. I guess there was a sale at Sherwin Williams on green paint. I don't know when exactly this shot was taken, but I evidently was drawn to the green, like some Swamp Thing-like photographer. It called and I answered. If you enjoyed... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! All Playbill™ images are from my original copies. My brother and I started visiting New York City on... Continue Reading →
I like the juxtaposition of the aging Zoetrope building with the sleek modernism of the TransAmerica Tower (or whatever it's called these days). I think it contributes to the beauty of San Francisco and this image elicits many fond memories of visiting that city, both for work (WonderCon and APE, the Alternative Press Expo), and... Continue Reading →
For many years, I went to Santa Monica around Christmas for a long weekend. I always stayed at a hotel on the Pacific Palisades, up from the Pier and across from the Pacific Ocean. Santa Monica was a great book town for a while, with a huge Barnes & Noble, the great Hennessy & Ingalls... Continue Reading →
I used to love going to New York City in the fall. While my timing was always a bit off when it came to the leaves changing, I was usually there when the ice rink was up and running in beautiful Rockefeller Center, one of numerous iconic locations throughout that city that I visited each... Continue Reading →
I've been concerned lately about how much everything seems to be changing. Some of this is due to "progress" (definitely a subjective term), and some of it due to the pandemic, of course. Downtown San Diego is a definite microcosm of this. I don't have very many photos that document these changes, but here are... Continue Reading →
From the Home Office in San Diego, CA I had a most-excellent 2022. Despite some money setbacks (a large rent increase and a large investment decrease to my retirement funds … thanks, Wall Street!), the year was as close a return to normal for me as I could possibly expect. When I started thinking about... Continue Reading →
I don't know about you, dear reader, but I am winding down for the year. And make no mistake, 2022 was a very good year for me, particularly considering the previous two years! I hope to be more motivated to write and post in 2023, including finally finishing my series, "My Life in Comics." There... Continue Reading →
One of the few things I miss about living back east is the leaves falling in autumn. This photo is from (I think) New York City, probably Central Park a few years back, and I really miss the color, the crunchy sound, and the ability to just kinda plow through ankle-deep piles of leaves that... Continue Reading →
I probably don't have the correct architectural terminology here, but this is a quintessential California image for me, one that I snapped in Santa Monica years ago. The house, the palm tree, the clouds ... all just scream the state's name loudly to me. I don't go to Santa Monica anymore. It's another "lost city"... Continue Reading →
Last post, I mentioned the view from Fort Mason Center in 2014 during the final Comic-Con sponsored APE event (look at my previous post for all the gory details). Well, here it is. That's the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance from Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion. Hard to believe this photo is two years... Continue Reading →
You can pretty much see all of these photos in my UK 2022 Trip Diary posts (scroll down for them), but I wanted to single out a few of my favorite photos from each destination in that trip, before I lay it to bed. It was such a great trip, it's been a bit tough... Continue Reading →
Normally around this time of year I make my annual trek to New York City. I love NYC in the fall, but the last couple of trips (2019 and last year), I mistimed it and got there before the autumn foliage was in full-bloom color mode. This time of year is also "book season," with... Continue Reading →
The third and final week of my trip to the United Kingdom began with a return to London from the quaint small city of Bath, where I had spent the past three days … To read parts one and two of my trip diary, click here (Part 01) and here (Part 02). As always, where... Continue Reading →
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