Seated next to a trash can, I continue my quixotic search for the double-fisheye effect.

Where are we? At Intelligentsia, in Silver Lake.... Where dogs are comfy fuzzy foot rests: ADDED:

Yes, I've seen it. You can stop alerting me.

I know the NYT published an article today on one of my longtime topics: men in shorts. I am only posting about it to put an end to your wor...

Judge... that reminds me...

I'm supposed to be judging that "ATL Idol" contest. ( Part 1 . Part 2 .) What have I got myself into? What if I hate everythi...

Vibrating...

... mascara. Why? You be the judge.

"Hello. Today, I'm having a little get together. With my friends."

Another NY/LA comparison.

Here, at the architecturally amazing Prada store in SoHo, I had to sneak a photograph on my way down to the basement level space where you ...

Compare New York graffiti.

These are all from SoHo, photographed last spring. Let's talk about the difference between New York graffiti and the California graffiti...

Venice Beach graffiti, Melrose Avenue graffiti supplies.

In Venice Beach, California, the graffiti is institutionalized on a set of concrete walls, layered with new paint daily: I don't know i...

Wisecracks that are too easy to make.

Look at that headline. IMAGE PRESERVED:

"He's the biggest celebrity in the world... O-BA-MA... O-BA-MA..."

He's a big celebrity, like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton... and gas prices are terrible.... get it? Being really famous and popular of...

Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School.

Jodi Kantor tells the story of Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Obama... was well liked at the law school, yet he ...

Obama is everywhere!

Look! "It's like Che," said the voice at the other end of that arm on Melrose Avenue. He's lurking behind the mechanical f...

Did you feel that 5.4 earthquake?

I was saying I'd like to experience an L.A. earthquake... nothing destructive, but something . So there was this big earthquake today . ...

Me and Bella.

In the NYT. The whole diavlog is here . ADDED: Here's the clip the NYT is featuring:

Beverly Hills Althouse, sweet potato fries, and the discovery of the double fisheye effect.

That gorgeous, undulating facade.

Here are 2 more shots of that facade I already raved about : It is the Harry Winston store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. You may be reluc...

Sebelius, Kaine, Bayh, Biden — take your pick of the apparent finalists.

Seems like Biden is really the best... ADDED: Adam Nagourney on why it's probably not going to be Clinton.

Thanks to all who came to the Althouse reader meetup last night.

We were ensconced amid big pillows in an alcove at The Abbey ... a cool gay bar in West Hollywood. ADDED: I didn't take pictures last ni...

3 arguments.... 1 logic error.

But can you explain the error?

Men in shorts.

The evidence. Discuss. (The photos are all from the Venice Beach "boardwalk." I'm from New Jersey, and I happen to think a boa...

Above the Law Idol — and I'll be a judge.

Here 's the explanation. And here 's a comment I completely predicted when David asked me to be a judge: Althouse = Paula Abdul. No...

How cool is Cuil?

I don't know. I checked it out by "Googling" my own name, and I love the way the results look ... except for that picture. Wh...

You're gonna miss the Walk sign!

You can't stop to photograph everything!

What is it? Where is it?

Full Throttle doggie.

I loved this dog, who had one light blue eye and one dark brown eye. Hated the Full Throttle, which they were passing out free at the Severe...

You can feel like you're slipping off the end of the world out here.

Your efforts are futile: Prone:

Blogging from the Pacific Time Zone.

It's hard! You can't catch the wave ... ... of news and rumors and topics — it's always too late. I feel so out of it. Not sayin...

Hey! It's a new Bloggingheads — with me and Bella DePaulo.

The subject is the plight of the poor, terrible, discriminated against single.

At The Loft in Koreatown.

Distractions: UPDATE: It's not "The Loft." It's just Loft. And who is that guy with the Treo? It's not, as some commen...

Does reading on the internet count as reading?

Your mom thinks you should read a book. [L]ike so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at leas...

"Even for Sarkozy the American, who loves everything in our culture... it was a wild gush over a new Washington crush."

On to the Maureen Dowd column . Yeah, I know I could be more creative about where to go for a Sunday morning's blogging, but the Frank R...

"A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners."

Barack Obama's overseas trip seems like the scenario for some Borat-style movie to Frank Rich. He never would have been treated as a pr...

Fast-N-Easy.

( Enlarge .)

I created a vortex on Melrose Avenue.

ADDED: (Big thanks to commenter Chip Ahoy!) If you wonder what this place is, well, you can see from the sign that it's on Melrose Avenu...

Some things I like about Beverly Hills.

The facade! The diagonal crossing! The torso! The shame .... Just kidding! There's no shame.

Listening to presidential talk — is Barack Obama what we want to hear now?

"And the truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people, I think, who know ten times more than we do about the specifics of the to...

There's something I like about L.A.

ADDED: The commenters get the answer easily. The men are all wearing long pants. If you have trouble understanding my opposition to men in s...

Greetings from L.A.!

Yeah!

"End of the Affair: Barack Obama and the press break up."

Oh! Do tell! Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Oba...

"And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant)..."

"... when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wi...

CNN's horrific Obamamania.

I'm sitting in an airport where I'm forced to listen to CNN TV constantly, and the endless enthusiasm over Barack Obama is appalling...

Another coffeehouse.

Once again, I rely on you, my dear friends, to keep the conversation going. I will join you later today... from the west coast. Talk about a...

Obama talks to Berlin "as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world."

Text. ... Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow c...

"I'll probably... peel off until the cake."

Out of context Obama quote of the day. Yesterday's was: They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that wil...

An L.A. meetup?

I'll be blogging from L.A. soon, and as discussed here — where you gave me so many good tips — I may do a meetup with blog readers. If ...

"I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do."

It's Giles Coren, getting "mightily pissed off" about copy editing — over the deletion of the word "a" — and with g...