Wednesday Bullets: Passports & Death Certificates, Walking & Barhopping, Writing & Porn, Stinky Eggs & Bloody Pee, and some Live Music to go with it all

July 23, 2008 at 5:46 pm in LA bloggers

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!