Wacky Saturday photo log

Teddy was playin', as per usual

He's a sweet kid

These are his famous "tiger pants"

Went to Orange, Rutabegorz

Modjeska Grade; that's Catalina Island back there, I think.

Santiago Canyon

Spotted a deer along the road

On the way back home

Dead Weather

My fave car video show

Hump day felinity

Hazel looking down on me literally (from the loft) and figuratively (general feline superiority).

Stella identifies with sad Dodger.

Above photos provided by Miss J

TigerAnn: a penny for your thoughts?

Teddy: Where's dad?

Boo Radley and John and Yoko. 

Red Emma is one of the Best Americans!

Red Emma makes good, very good. 

We always knew Red Emma was a pretty good American but we never knew he was among the best Americans!

Yet, there he is, on pages 412-427 of the 2013 edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers with an introduction by Walter Mosley, among the likes of Jennifer Egan, Nick Hornby, Karen Russell and Lynda Barry.

Simon Kilacky

In Red's story, titled "Falling," an enormous hole opens up at a religious retreat (where atheists are regularly installed in foxholes) and swallows a man whole.  Hilarity ensues.

Careful readers may recognize some familiar types.

Take for instance this character:

"But this is not to be, not after the disappearance of the atheist Dr. Simon Kilacky, age forty-eight, part-time geology instructor, speech team faculty advisor, and women's softball coach from a small community college in Orange County, California."

Some fun. Watch your step Dr. Kilacky!

Check out the story here.

Congratulations Red!

Best American Red Emma visits the Best American Hole. 

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Andrew Tonkovich

Long Beach college to charge more for some courses (OC Reg)
The governor signs a bill authorizing the community college to test two-tiered pricing.
     Long Beach City College will become the first community college in California to charge nearly $500 more for some high-demand classes under a two-tiered tuition plan signed into law Thursday.
     The five-year pilot project will allow Long Beach community college officials to offer certain three-unit classes for a planned $627 during summer and winter. The same courses will continue to cost $138 during fall and spring – or $489 less.
. . .
     “It defeats one of the main purposes for going to a junior college,” said Fullerton College student Don Lundy, 32, a student trustee for the North Orange County Community College District. “If students were going to pay that much money for a class, they would go to a Cal State or UC.”….

Theodore, cat

Goodnight

It is important never to tune one's guitar too much
The Kills - "The Last Goodbye" 2/9/2012 David Letterman

Mold buzzage (among other buzzages)

     Owing to the recent release of the A205 “mold report” and recent DtB posts, there was a fair amount of angry mold buzzage at the college today.
     Lots of folks dropped by to offer their two cents. “Sure,” they said, “Glenn cares about bullshit like IVC becoming an earthquake command center [he wants “employees” to “facilitate the continuity of government” post temblor] but he couldn’t care less that toxic stachybotrys mold is growing in a classroom fewer than a hundred yards from his office,” said some wag.
     “If there isn’t a photo op in it for him, Glenn doesn’t give a shit about it,” said another.
     Some expressed concern: “Hey,” they said, “should I worry about my office? I share a wall with A205.” –Stuff like that.
     I still haven’t had a chance to read the report, but I’m told that, according to the report, hideous black mold was found on A205’s “west wall.”
     The west wall? I consulted my mental map: “That would be the wall on the internal, not the external wall (i.e., the wall contiguous with other rooms in A200), right? How can that be?”
     I consulted the concrete map of the college found on the IVC website. Here’s an even better image:

There is no "west wall" of A205; rather, there is a northwest wall and a southwest wall

     The red indicates (more or less) room A205. A205 doesn’t have a “west” wall so much as a northwest and southwest wall. (See.) So which one is the “west” wall?
     Since it is nearest to the exterior, the southwest wall is the likely culprit. (No. See update below.) It is about seven feet from my (and Rebel Girl’s) office. (See blue X.) We are separated from the (southern part of the) mold wall by a court or quadrangle area that is about seven feet wide, one of IVC's inexplicable nooks (mirrored by identical pointless nookage on the other side of the building).
     Gosh.
     It looks like there’s a growing interest among A200 denizens in extending mold inspections beyond A205.
     But don’t worry. If that happens, since Glenn and Craig are in charge, no action will be taken for another two months or so.



From the recently released report

UPDATE (10/10): I finally read (some of) the report. It asserts that there were high levels of (the bad kind of) mold on the west wall "at the window." But there is no window in the west wall (i.e., the northwest or southwest walls). I shall assume, therefore, that the report is referring to the entrance of A205, which includes a window, and which is exactly at the corner of the northwest and northeast "walls." The only other windows are those along the southeast "wall," i.e., the exterior wall adjacent to the sidewalk. Those windows, and that wall, are decidedly unwestern.