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St. Roch Cemetery

More photos from New Orleans – in keeping with the purpose of the trip, I guess. Kate and I took some time walking around this city of the dead which was a couple of blocks up St. Roch from where Alma and David lived. (prosthesis gallery? = St. Roch patron of this, according to David. Hence the fake limb museum.)

*Note 11/30/15: for some reason these photos had disappeared from my blog, so reposting them. I was thinking about my niece Alma Maleckar Bear today, as it’s the 4th anniversary of her death in 2011. RIP Alma, still so missed.
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Our Bronson Canyon . . . heads will roll

Griffith Park view of the Hollywood Sign, from Bronson Canyon

LA Times blog: Human Head found in Hollywood Hills….

Damn, this is the place I try to go and hike every Sunday, you know, cardio out in nature. I started going to Bronson rather than further east in Griffith Park back in 2007-8 after the big fire that consumed what seems like half the park (and now making a remarkable recovery).

Some questions re this discovery:

  • seems like the “head” was dropped in a really accessible place, not only for dogs but also for children and other humans – as in, no real attempt to “hide” or “destroy” it. So, whoever put it there wanted it to be found, right?
  • how did the initial police reports of a disembodied head figure out it was an “Armenian man?” I guess someone who looks like they might be Armenian could also look like they come from half a dozen other nearby countries, right? Or, was it something else, like ID in the bag?
  • Or, was he an individual already well known to LAPD?
  • now I’m reading in an update that they found a hand as well – so they can ID through dental records and fingerprints? Doesn’t that again seem like it’s too obvious?

Posting more as the story unfolds.

UPDATE 1/19/12: since I wrote the first story, they found the other hand as well as both feet. No other body parts – yet. Knowing this trail quite well, where they found the head (don’t know about the rest) is beyond where you can drive, after the trail becomes pedestrian-dirt only. So whoever put that head there had to carry it there.

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Where in the world is the blogger?

I’ve not posted, the worst sin of any blogger by far. Even just a photo and a few words, somehow I could not manage. Bad, Bad, Bad!

My reason: I’ve been working for the past couple of weeks at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. In addition to working, I saw 7 films, some of which I’ll talk about in upcoming posts. I went to at least three parties. I ate too much.

So I apologize for the lack of activity. I leave you today with this shot, where I often had my morning coffee and breakfast. There could be worse things, no?

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50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Griffith Park view of the Hollywood Sign

50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Today, a reprint of (LA Weekly’s) 50 true and sometimes humorous reasons why the city is just the best.

It doesn’t hurt that the high temperature forecast for today, January 1, is 82 degrees (not the norm, but hey…).

Enjoy the list! What would you add to the list if you could? And, Happy 2012 to everyone, Angeleno or not.

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Just say no to Christmas?

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link to Just say no to Christmas? from USATODAY.com.

See, being a non-conformist can get you into print! After I did this post a few weeks ago on Adbuster’s Buy Nothing Day and #OccupyXmas, I was contacted by the paper to contribute to their story on “Christmas without consuming.”

It’s good to know there are others out there (many, many others, I would imagine) who feel the same way I do about the consumerism that has taken over Xmas and has become responsible for so much stress and debt.

So what am I doing for Xmas? Dinner with friends on both Xmas Eve and Xmas day, and an open house in the neighborhood, where I’m told (yes!) there will be cookies.

This year in particular, because of the death in our family, since I don’t celebrate the crassness of Xmas there were no diversions, such as (un)necessary trips to malls, real or online, parking lot traffic jams, overdrawn checking accounts, and well, you get my drift. I’m grateful for the time I had with my family.

My best wishes to everyone for fellowship and light on the holiday – after all, the kernel takeaway from Xmas is “peace on earth, goodwill to men” – right? There doesn’t need to be more than that, unless of course you have to have all the rest. It’s certainly been enough for me, going on 15 years since I said goodbye to all that.

You know what? Once again, nothing bad happened.

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Alma Maleckar Bear, Milwaukee tribute

My brother Bill Arnold sent me two short videos he made yesterday (Sunday, December 18, 2011) of a Lake Michigan-side balloon release in honor of Alma Maleckar Bear, orchestrated by childhood friends of Alma from the East Side of Milwaukee.

Celebrate
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Apartment House Drama!

These notes are all over our building!

Upon returning from New Orleans, I found this note put up in the lobby and near all elevator doors.

The Horror! Drama has enveloped the Broken Arms in Valley Village.

“Pictures were taken. Eviction imminent.” Have they called Homeland Security?

Notes:

  • how do we know this is dog urine or dog crap? Could it be a human violator? Feline?
  • As a previous landlord myself, I know that eviction is a really fracking complicated process. It would be better to say “eviction proceedings will be imminent.” (and good luck with that)
  • Perhaps the writer of this note should have taken a few deep breaths.

That’s what I feel I am doing now, after the sadness of the last couple of weeks, emerging from a murky lake. Breathe in, breathe out. Write the book. Look for work. Go to gym. Hell, somebody’s even got a holiday party tonight and invited me. Dress up. Go out.

Live.

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Girl Bites Dog

a last look

When my mother died several years ago, at the end of the service the priest came down the steps to where her ashes were lying, and said to us all, “this is where we say our final goodbye.”  This was the one thing at the funeral which physically shocked me, as in, I had no intention of doing that, I didn’t want to say goodbye, not then, not ever. But after I thought about what he said, in the ensuing weeks and months, I realized the priest was right. Mom had gone on, and it was time for us to live our lives while remembering her.

My niece Alma was at that funeral and read something there. My mother told me once that she felt a special connection to this particular granddaughter, that there was a wavelength on which they communicated that was different from the rest.

I did not know Alma well. For her entire life I lived in California, while she grew up in Milwaukee and New Orleans. There are two stories about her I remember vividly, one told to me and one I witnessed. Continue reading

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Alma Claire Maleckar Bear, Second Line

The Second Line parade for Alma Claire Maleckar Bear began on Friday, December 9th 2011, at sundown. The three mile route went from the 1300 block of St. Roch Avenue:*

in the St. Roch neighborhood, left onto Marais, right on Port St., then a left onto St. Claude Avenue, with a stop at St. Coffee, crossed St. Claude Avenue at St. Ferdinand, then right onto Press Street into the Bywater, a left onto Dauphine, a right on Piety, then right onto Royal with a stop outside Alma’s studio:

After some songs there, we continued along Royal into the Marigny, stopped at Mimi’s for libations and a bathroom break (and for some of us, the coffee across the street), then continued on Royal, left on Esplanade to Decatur and into the French Quarter, where we met up with a cop —  who didn’t want the parade to continue (and for which there was indeed a permit). Luckily, we were with a dear friend of my nieces, Molly and Alma — Naomi — who is a lawyer and had no problem getting him to agree to the second line continuation with a slight modification onto the Moon Walk, where we lit candles, scattered some of Alma’s ashes into the Mississippi River and sang.

And shot off fireworks. Continue reading

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Whispers and Sighs: ‘The Music Box’ in New Orleans

‘The Music Box’ in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown

Piety, synonyms: respect, veneration, awe.

The day before my niece Alma’s funeral some of us went down to the Music Box installation at the Dithyrambalina on Piety Street in the Bywater section of NOLA.

They let us experiment with the instruments in the various “houses,” including the spiral staircase organ (I actually got up to the top of it), the Balinese hut with the bells on the wall, a little shack with floorboards which would each play a different tone (reminded me of the giant foot-operated piano in “Big”) and a little gazebo which had what looked like a giant wedding dress (that you could sit inside – see photo) lined with bells and other things (keys, etc) that would tinkle and ring when shook. There was also the tiny house which had a stethoscope hanging from the rafter, which you could place against your heart to have the life beat broadcast throughout the yard. This was slightly disconcerting to me, as in, what if there was no sound, what if — it stopped? Yet it also emphasized so clearly that each person who tried it (and we all did) had a unique sound and vibration.

The air was so clear, crisp, and the light so winter.

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The installation is also a fine place for musicians to play and experiment, and I see that’s the point of us being there that day, something Alma would have been first in line to do.

 

 

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