Queenkv’s Brainpickings

A Kobe burger and fries in Old Town Pasadena. Hearty goodness after the cocktails.

We’re doing dessert at Pop in Pasadena. I had a dessert wine flight. Also sampled handmade salted carmels covered in salt plus mint macaroons. And grooving to a wicked music mix: Felix da Housecat, Shirley Bassey and more.

I’ve finished another action-pack week at work. My weekend morning shows were quite exciting with all the breaking news. On Saturday, our chopper got all that amazing flooding video. My boss kept calling back to our editors to make sure they were taping everything. Later, CNN and NBC picked up the video and used it [...]

A Medill alum posted this link to an LA Times business story: Outsourcing the News: Hiring reporters in India to cover Pasadena, CA.” When is local journalism not really local? When it’s about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Here are the first of many pix we took from last week’s Star Trek Convention in Vegas. It was fun, eye-opening and well….by the time Sunday rolled around, we had our [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sleaterk, originally uploaded by queenkv. Roughly speaking…we’re getting ready to go to Vegas. I havea quick stop at the radio station and then we’re on our way. My dad got plane [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } But not necessarily wiser… Mark and I have birthdays in May. Mark’s dad managed to get a truck route out to Cali – just in time for Mark’s 29th b-day…wow…29….a cool [...]

FAIRFIELD, CALIF — We’re currently in the Bay Area…David’s getting activated. He flies to Texas tomorrow. I don’t know when I’ll get to see him again. Currently blogging from a Holiday Inn – just off the 80. David told us about this activation ceremony at Travis Air Base. We took off from LA at 6:00 [...]

This week – we went down to old town Pasadena for our first yoga class in So. Cal. All that stretching worked up an appetite – so we parked closer to Colorado. We checked out a few spots – Brazillian and Spanish Tapas…a bit rich for our blood. Then – just off Fair Oaks Ave [...]

from Cali… My bro has been keeping up with the latest on Cal Bear Football, for me…and golly – it’s nice to have a winning record. Go Bears!. I was totally thrilled by one of his e-mails with the subject heading: RE: CAL ranked #4 in the nation -Sweet! Now, I don’t follow much sports, [...]