Armed with the digital camera, a short walk around the neighborhood today revealed this: The scary thing is that on the other side of the hill at the end of this idyllic-looking street, there's a VA hospital where they filmed scenes for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. What you don't see is that about 2 seconds after I snapped this pic, the homeless guy walking out of the Coffee Bean's sitting area gave me the finger. There was a small festival going on in the 'hood today... In some countries, forcing your kids to go up on stage for a cute photo op and making them look as miserable as some of them did while they were playing their tambourines and maracas is a violation of the Geneva Convention. A drag racer for the over-75 crowd. Here's one of them Orthodox Jews trying to teach some guys sitting at KooKooRoo about the miracle of Christmas -- I mean Sukkot, which is the celebration of the harvest festival. "Oy, we planted and tilled the soil for so long..."