Hey, I never said I knew how to write headlines.

Oh well, here goes…

• This past March, Matt Logelin became a new dad and a widower in a 27 hour window. As he applies for a passport for his now 3.5 month old baby, he discovers that the regular requirement is that the rules dictate that both parents must be physically present for a passport application to be filed. Matt says, “for most families, this is likely just an extreme inconvenience, trying to find a time when both parents can meet in the same place, to focus on the same objective, at the same time. but for me, it’s a process that creates an extreme amount of anxiety. anxious about walking into the passport office with madeline’s birth certificate, social security card. and, um, her mother’s death certificate…”

• Walking in LA with Google Maps: Siel of Green LA Girl shows how useful this function will for barhopping sans drunk-driving.

• Apuykat attends a creative writing workshop and shares a couple of the exercises she did.  “Prompt 1 : 21 year old woman, 42 year old guy. Woman is pregnant. Time: 5 minutes to write. Style : California Porn.”  You wanna take a stab at that?

• El Chavo shares some stuff he learned this weekend: “piles of broken eggs on a hot day stink” and Flamin’ Hot Funyuns makes the the cashier at a local store “pee blood”. Check out the other lessons of the weekend here.

• Ed Padgett, the Blogging Pressman, shares some video clips of live music in Southern California

Photo stolen from EL CHAVO!