It's Steve (now in blog form)

How many times am I going to have to repeat myself about this?  Ok, one more time for those of you who haven’t been listening.  If you’re going to smuggle animals on long international flights, your pants are not the best place to hide them.  See how simple a concept that is?

A while back I covered a man with his britches full of monkeys.  Now we’ve got pigeons.  Wow.

Australian man caught with pigeons in trousers
MELBOURNE (AFP) – An Australian man was caught with two live pigeons stuffed in his trousers as he got off a flight from the Middle East, authorities said Tuesday.  [read full story]

The good- After the rain passes, LA sometimes has moments when it’s crystal clear.  At those moments, it’s really very beautiful.

The bad- I came across this in the grocery store a couple of days ago (yeah, I take my camera everywhere now).  Just thinking about this stuff makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.  First, how lazy do you have to be for the standard mac and cheese recipe to be overly burdensome? Second, bacon flavoring? Take that, middle America.

The squirrelly- I’ve got squirrels in my trash can.  This is a combination of cute and horrifying.  It turns out that the squirrels in this part of LA carry the bubonic plague.  Stupid plague squirrels.