Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Why I Like Japanese Samurai Movies

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Last time I briefly went over a little bit of my involvement in martial arts which was intended to lead into this blog entry. Again, ever si...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Martial Arts and Me

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This is the start of a few blogs I am going to do in order to introduce my interest in Japanese movies. I have been slow about bringing this...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Iron Man Cave Location

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(GPS: N36 30.990 W117 49.580) The Iron Man dvd will be out on September 30. I recently visited the "cave" location. The shots i...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Silent Places

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Readers of this blog will know that I like to use the word silent and silence to describe what I like about the outdoors. I use those word...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Naked Gun Terrorist Headquarters Location

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(N34 10.925 W118 16.605) Here is the location of where the diabolical plot discussed takes place in "Beirut, Lebanon." Here we ar...
Monday, September 08, 2008

The Illusion of the All Knowing Google Search Engine

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Some months back in April I wrote a few long blogs on my concerns about the issues of our sources of online knowledge. My main concern is th...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The 7 Men From Now Relay Station (The Alabama Hills Series)

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(N36 36.550 W118 07.525) Here is some nice movie archaeology. This is going to be the last one of these I do for a while so I thought I woul...
Friday, August 08, 2008

8/8/8 Surprise

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(AKA The Triple T on Triple 8) I get a kick out of people that make a big deal about these calendar numbers. First, people really cared abou...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Tom Mix Ropes Them Up Location (The Alabama Hills Series)

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(GPS: N36 35.860 W118 11.160) Here is an easy one, but fun because it is a silent movie location: Tom Mix made Riders of the Purpl...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Goodbye Links

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First, let me preface this by saying that this has really nothing to do with the blog itself or anyone I know that reads this blog. Nor am I...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

The History of McDonald's (Part 3)

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(GPS: N 34° 00.160 W 117° 56.185) This is my last entry in this series about the history of McDonald's. This really is not so much a his...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

The History of McDonald's (Part 2)

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(GPS: n34 07.520 w117 17.665) 1398 N. "E" Street, San Bernardino, CA Continuing the "history that really, really, really matt...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

The History of McDonald's (Part 1)

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(GPS: N 33 56.820, W 118 07.085) 10207 Lakewood Blvd (at Florence Ave) in Downey, Ca. Here is some history that "really, really, real...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Mule Train Waterhole (The Alabama Hills Series)

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(N36 36.385 W118 07.085) Here is another man made artifact from the old western movie making era. This is very much like The Gunfigher Water...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Climbing Stairs (The Music Box Location)

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(GPS: N34 04. 985 W118 16.510) (Edit {1/10/2010}: Just an FYI for those that randomly come in here or new readers so there isn't any co...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Bad Day at Black Rock Location Hike

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(GPS: N36 38.040 W118 02.390) (EDIT: I have taken down this video. I will put up a new one at a later time). I was tempted to call this one...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Mono Lake Crack

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(GPS for Black Point: N38 01.680 W119 05.815) Here is one I like because it has a spooky effect to it. The first minute or so is at Black P...