Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

This blog will pay for itself.

You cannot shame the shameless.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

No one could have predicted…

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

T R E 4 5 O N

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.

Angelino Heights

As Los Angeles grew from a small town to large city the wealthy moved up and west. At first they moved from the Plaza area to Bunker Hill(you can see most of it in the foregound of my fisheye photo from SkySpace) which towered above the Plaza and stretched from Fort Moore Hill immediately west of the Plaza to Normal Hill(where LA Central Library now stands). In the late 1880’s Bunker Hill was becoming a less desirable address, so they picked up(sometimes quite literally*) and moved to the new neighborhood of Angelino Heights. One street there(Carroll Street) only has the older Victorian homes. Some were originally built there, others were moved in the late 1800’s and some more recently. All of the following pictures are from Carroll Street except for the Infrared image. In most cases I don’t know the detailed history of these houses so the pictures will be presented without comment, except in the few cases where I have additional information.

*In one case a man sent his family to Catalina for the weekend and when they came back discovered that the house was no longer there. They had moved it from Bunker Hill to Angelino Heights.

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

Two Victorian houses, notice the light standard to the far right.

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

I believe the house on the right is a more recent arrival and is getting “some work”(not uncommon in LA) done. Nice looking Prius there!

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

I don’t have any information on this one.

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

The owner of this house converted it into a sanitarium for TB patients. After the City of Los Angeles outlawed sanitariums, they moved to East LA and eventually became a hospital named Cedars of Lebanon. After several decades in East LA they moved to Hollywood(a building now the headquarters of Scientology). They merged with Mt. Sinai Hospital and the combined hospital moved adjacent to Beverly Hills.

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

Google maps says this is the “Charmed House”, it is rather charming.

Taken on 2018-02-21

Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA

Since the clouds behind this house looked nice, I thought the IR picture would look nice. This is the one house not on Carroll Street, it’s on Edgewater and Douglas.

 

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  1. 1.

    Mustang Bobby

    Those are amazing pictures of beautiful homes, BillinGlendaleCA. Thank you.

    I’m heading to the airport for a flight from MIA to DFW then on to TUL and a drive north to Independence, Kansas, for the 37th William Inge Theatre Festival. This is my 26th trip to the festival and I’ll be the host of the scholars conference portion of the show. As a “special guest,” I’ll be staying in Inge’s boyhood home which became the setting for several of his plays, including “Picnic,” and I will find out if there really is “Dark at the Top of the Stairs.”

  3. 3.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mustang Bobby: You’re welcome, the next two that I’ve got “on deck” are a couple of other old neighborhoods.

    Yes there is “Dark at the Top of the Stairs”, it’s usually a pet that has positioned itself so that you trip and fall down the stairs(Cole FP’ed this).

    Also to toot my own horn, if you click on my nym now; it no longer takes you to my Flckr page, it now goes to my photography website. I’ve went and gone pro!

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    Reports of election centres being closed promptly at 5pm, depriving people still queuing up outside the gate of their chance to vote. This suggests much higher than expected turnout and an underprepared Election Commission. There were claims by the opposition of Barisan Nasional ratfuckery, which have yet to be independently corroborated or substantiated. Still too early right now for any results.

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    debbie

    I love Victorian houses! When I was in SF, I killed my back walking up and down all those hills just to gawk at them.

  14. 14.

    debbie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I do that with spring flowers, but I’m always worried someone’s going to run out of the house and chase me away. Tough to get good shots when you’re poised to flee!

  15. 15.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @debbie: If you’re on the street or the sidewalk, you can tell them to fuck off(nicely, of course). You can photograph anything in public as long as you don’t trespass on private property. There can be some oddities in municipal codes though, technically you need a permit for commercial photography on any city property in LA and this includes streets and sidewalks. I should note that this is primarily to prevent film companies taking over streets and causing parking, traffic and security problems.

  18. 18.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Alain the site fixer: Thanks, I was originally going to use WordPress for the blog, but found it too hard to get the formatting to mimic the portfolio, so I just kept ti all on Smugmug. Also it makes the address better since it’s the same as the portfolio’s domain.

  19. 19.

    Schlemazel

    Thanks. I really love victorian houses & these are some fine examples. I had no idea there were any in LA, I thought they were too new/too Southwester influence for that sort of brikabrak..

  20. 20.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Schlemazel: There’s quite a few remaining in this neighborhood as well as the West Adams neighborhood(that’s where we’re headed next).

    ETA: They tried to move some of the Victorians in Bunker Hill when they redeveloped the area in the late 60’s but it didn’t have a happy ending.

  21. 21.

    mainmata

    The Charmed House has some interesting “Arts and Crafts Movement” elements in its facade. It would be interesting to see the interior. I didn’t know regular cameras had an infrared setting (or was this done with Photoshop?). Really interesting effect.

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @mainmata: The last picture was taken with my full spectrum camera with an infrared filter. All digital cameras have a range for light capture of wavelengths between 200nm and about 1300nm. So they can capture higher end UV and near IR(not the heat sensing IR). What camera manufactures to to give you an image in visible light(one that doesn’t look all weird with brown trees) is to put a filter in front of the sensor, a hot mirror. What I did was buy a camera on Ebay and sent it out and had the hot mirror removed and replaced with glass, so the sensor receives all wavelengths. I can put a filter on it and filter for UV or IR.

    ETA: I do use Photoshop to do what’s called a color swap, otherwise you end up with red or orange skies.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s neck-and-neck between Barisan Nasional and the opposition in the Malaysian general election at 49 seats each. Closest general election here since before independence. Two of Barisan’s party presidents have lost their parliamentary seats, which makes them ineligible for Cabinet posts even if Barisan wins. Najib is MP for Pahang’s royal seat of Pekan, so is highly unlikely to lose. Dr Mahathir won his seat in Langkawi, Kedah.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    Opposition pulling ahead. Najib kept his seat in Pekan but Barisan stronghold state Johor appears to be going Pakatan’s way.

  28. 28.

    J R in WV

    @Amir Khalid:

    Fascinating to hear you’re locality is just as interested in yesterday’s elections as mine! A small world, truly. LAst night we were looking up election results in WV, and Ohio, looks like Ohio did pretty well. Of course primary elections just pick the candidates for the general next November.

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Bill, great photos of great unban scenery! I wish we had had time and inclination to do more getting around in LA last March – what we saw was fabulous, but we so obviously just scratched the surface…

    We did make it up to the Getty Museum, and to the LA county Museum of Natural History, then I caught a cold and had to just stay in the rom til our flight back home.

    Great photos. Thanks!!

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    We may have a new ruling coalition and a returning PM tomorrow morning. For the first time in our post-independence history. Even if Barisan somehow wins this time, I don’t expect Najib to keep the Barisan leader’s post, the UMNO party presidency, or the PM’s job.

  30. 30.

    No Drought No More

    “..VICTORY FOR TRUMP”, reads the current headline in NY Times (online edition), simply because N. Korea kicked three Americans loose as part of a dog & pony show.

    There is something deeply rotten at the heart of that paper, and none of the great journalism practiced by its journalists in any way mitigates that fact.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    Pakatan Harapan leads Barisan Nasional 71-60 in Parliamentary seats. (2 seats won by independents and 7 by Islamist party PAS.) 82 Parliamentary seats to go. State-level results are also favouring Pakatan. It looks like the return of Dr M is nigh.
    ETA: DR M claims Pakatan has won more seats than the 112 needed for a majority but the Election Commision is sitting on the certification of results. He also says Pakatan has won six of 13 states: Penang, Selangor, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Johor and Kedah. It’s starting to look like a rout.

  33. 33.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Amir Khalid: I’ve been following on BBC. Sounds like there is a big challenge figuring out how to pass power to a different coalition. Fingers crossed!

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    The site I’m following has corrected its Parliamentary tally: Pakatan Harapan 76 Barisan Nasional 57.

  36. 36.

    Amir Khalid

    Pakatan 80 Barisan 58. It looks like Malaysian Official One won’t be a Malaysian official — or maybe even a free man — much longer.

  37. 37.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Amir Khalid: heh. How soon does the transition happen? I assume that turnover is pretty soon after the election results are certified.

  38. 38.

    Mary G

    @Amir Khalid: From your site, this cracked me up:

    EC chief: Nothing suspicious, EC still waiting for results

    12.38am: EC chairperson Hashim Abdullah holds a press conference to announce that the commission is still waiting for results.

    He also denied that there is anything suspicious ongoing.

    “Let’s wait until the results come out, and sleep here,” he jokes.

    When they deny anything suspicious that many times, there is usually something afoot. I would be interested to hear more about it from you when things have shaken out a bit; I try to follow, but since I canceled my NYT subscription, I don’t see as much international news as I should.

    Bill, I love Victorians and thank you for doing these. Are the ones along the Pasadena freeway still there? I have an acquaintance who’s been redoing a gorgeous Victorian in West Adams since 1985, so I hope you saw it.

  39. 39.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Quinerly: Happy you like them.

    @J R in WV: It’d take a week or two to more than scratch the surface and you’d really need folk to tell you about where this kind of thing is. Did you see the model of downtown from the late 30’s at the Natural History Museum?

  41. 41.

    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yes we did. I think we saw everything there.he

    We had just landed from Baja the day before, IIRC, and when I took my camera out, the filter was crushed. The camera bag was on top of a rolling suitcase when we checked in, and it fell over. Fortunately, no damage to the front of the lens, which is not swappable on the camera.

    I did have to gently shake glass shards away, blow hard, brush with hanky, etc. Success. Will post some one of these days.

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