After having my weekly excellent massage at Lamai, I wandered through the Festival, since there weren’t a ton of people yet. (It did start to get a larger crowd very very quickly.) I discovered that I left my camera battery in the charger (!) so here are some pics I took with my iPhone. Sorry [...]

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By tomorrow, this street will be packed with vendors and people! This just in from AbbotKinney.org: You’re Invited to Venice’s Biggest, Best Neighborhood Block Party – The Abbot Kinney Street Festival It’s an all day block party with three stages of music, 300 arts and crafts booths, food & drinks, and a special area just [...]

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This guy’s got the right idea. It was such a beautiful day, I wanted to step out of my flip flops and plop down on the sand too. (btw…that chick isn’t topless. She was wearing a cute halter-top bikini.)

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Be there or be square. BROOKS STAGE 10:00 – 10:30 Le Switch 10:30 – 11:00 Emily Wells 11:20 – 12:00 Simple Citizens 12:20 – 1:00 Paul Chesne 1:00 – 1:30 Bill Rosendahl – Spirit of Venice awards 1:30 – 2:10 Minibar 2:30 – 3:10 Plans to Leave 3:30 – 4:10 The Blank Tapes 4:30 – [...]

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Cousin Itt can swim? It’s not that the beard, the long hair, or the shorts are necessarily bad on their own. (I like a little retro shout-out now and again.) But… Beard + long hair + 70′s gym shorts that are 2 sizes too small = bad outfit. It’s like half ZZTop and half roller-disco. [...]

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