Now that Halloween is approaching, I’ve stumbled across quite a few costumes for pets on the web. This is just so wrong. Do people think their dogs would actually like wearing these things?

This one is a “Star Wars Princess Leia ‘Slave’ Pet” from Amazon:

and then there are these two from Wiggle-n-Waggle

We were lucky enough to see Beck play at Element, a small club in Hollywood on Tuesday night. On Monday morning we got an email telling us about the last minute show, and we were lucky enough to snag a couple of tickets.

Element is a small venue, it probably holds a few hundred people. This is great because on Beck’s current tour he is playing places that hold thousands of people. He recently played two shows in Los Angeles at the Wiltern theatre. We got there fairly early and picked out a great place to stand, on a raised platform about 30 feet from the stage. Both Michele and I were able to see the whole stage with no problems.

The show was really good, but for different reason than I thought it would be. Beck, unlike most solo artists, was not the whole show, it was the entire band that had a great performance. There were six people, including Beck, on stage for the whole concert. The other five musicians played really well and seemed really into the music. They constantly switched and changed the instruments they were playing. There were two drum kits on stage, a few keyboards, bongo drums, and they kept bringing various other instruments like guitars, basses, a recorder, a harmonica, even what looked like a big, empty bashed up tin can that someone hit with a drumstick. Beck himself had a guitar strapped on for most of the show.

Even though I’m not a huge Beck fan, and was not familiar with most of the songs (I only have one CD), I really enjoyed the show. It was cool to be able to see him in such a small club.

Johnny Lydon (nee Rotten) is on Jonesy’s Jukebox (Steve Jones the Sex Pistol’s guitarist) this afternoon, and I just heard him say the funniest thing:

Is that the best of Bread CD? Let me see it. Can I borrow you glasses, Steve, I’m as blind as a bat.

Doesn’t really sound very punk does it?

In early October we ate at the Wynn Buffet. I started this posting but never finished it. Here it is anyway, just basically a list of what we had:

Crab Legs and Clarified Butter, Heirloom Tomato Salad, Shrimp Cocktail, Tofu & Veggie Salad, Tofu and Spinach, Tuna Ceviche, Smoked Whitefish, Cheeses, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Aloo Gobi, Sweet Potato Gnocchi

Seafood, Pizza

Sushi, Hawaiian Seafood Medley

Desserts: Pecan Pie (sugar-free), Carrot Cake, Cookies,

Lemon Bars, Eclair, Creme Brulee, Strawberry Tart

$31.95 + Tax

October 5th, 2005

Wow. This is amazing, someone actually started with a single red paperclip, did a series of trades, and ended up with a house.

One Red Paperclip

It’s Friday, so I can be excused for an entry about cats. Here is a blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler.

This one is my favorite.

Since I use a desktop PC at home and a laptop when I travel, it gets difficult storing things on my hard drive. I’ve been slowly migrating as much of my data as I can online. Here is a list of the web-based applications I have been using which have replaced local applications:

• Bloglines - News Reader
• Writely - Word Processor (now owned by Google)
• GMail - Google’s Email
• del.icio.us - Bookmarks (now owned by Yahoo)
• Google’s Calendar
• ShutterflyOnline Photo Storage

And, starting tomorrow, I hope to be able to start using Google’s new online spreadsheet.

This is a hilarious account of two people who had an Iron Chef battle in a Souplantation. (For those of you who don’t know, Souplantation is an all you can eat salad and soup restaurant.)

Iron Chef: Souplantation

Found via: la.foodblogging

I can’t believe CBS cancelled Love Monkey. There were only three episodes, but I was really starting to like the show. KCRW’s Nick Harcourt was the music consultant on the show, so the music was half decent. And tonight’s episode was supposed to have an appearance by She Wants Revenge. Networks really don’t seem to give shows a chance these days.

E! Online Story about the cancellation.

Somebody found some great Valentine’s Day cards found in Indonesia.

How does:

you.ll leare bad limes
behind nothing bul good limes on uoui mind

end up on a greeting card?

See http://flickr.com/photos/markhurst/sets/72057594064325932/ for the full set.