The famous Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck (www.kogibbq.com) made an appearance at the Santiago Art District in Santa Ana last night (May 16, 2009). I waited in line a mere 1-1/2 hours for my 6 Korean BBQ short rib tacos, Korean BBQ short rib burrito, and Kimchi Quesadilla. (I hear that others waited as long as 3 hours for theirs.)

Truth be told … it was good, but not amazing. I enjoyed the different experience of the Kimchi Quesadilla, but I’m not a huge Kimchi fan, and so probably wouldn’t order it again. The tacos were good — quite good — but not sure that they were worth 1.5 hours in line. We also had a desert — for the life of me I couldn’t understand what they called it, but it sounded like a “Roofie Sandwich”. It was more like an Orea outside with a buttery, sweet cream filling on the inside, like a big cookie. I loved it — but my friends Missy and Stacia seemed to think it was just okay. I ordered the burrito to save for tonight, so we’ll see how that is later.

I did enjoy the crowd, and the Kogi staff on the truck was great. It’s definitely worth a try, and even worth waiting … if only for the spectacle of it all. Hopefully they’ll come down again, I’d even wait one more time to try the other dishes on the menu…

The Calendar Factory has expanded to include many things that we’ve been doing for years: magazine design, magazine ads; books; and calendars. We’ve launched The 28 Page Agency’s website recently. It will be updated and changed regularly (we’re already working on a complete redesign) … feel free to stop by!

So, I read in the news today about “Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty today to masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history…”

I’m confused. Isn’t the biggest Ponzi scheme in history the US Social Security System?

(Ponzi Scheme, from Wikipedia: “pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned. … other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and pyramid schemes…. The perpetuation of the high returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors in order to keep the scheme going. The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments.”)

Was in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, and I had an opportunity to shoot the 1970’s hit band Honey Cone … I had a great location, and so here are a few fun shots from the night.

Intrivolting (Intriguing + Revolting): the only word I could come up with to describe Seattle’s gum wall … a wall with thousands if not millions of pieces of gum stuck upon it.

As you might surmise, I just returned from a trip to Seattle. A very quick weekend up and back on the relatively new airline Virgin America (more to come on that next post), here are a few pictures from the Aquarium:

I love bad grammar.

”… Utah Students From Space.” Classic.

A week or so ago the full moon was the closest to our planet that it’s been in many years — meaning that it looked about 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than normal. Sure enough, I walked outside, and — rather than seeing the moon itself, I saw an amazingly bright reflection of it in my neighbors window. It was stunning, and also a different angle on the moon than normal, so I quickly grabbed my tripod to take a few shots. (Probably looked like I was trying to peer in the neighbor’s window.) The windows are double-paned and tinted, so the moon reflected in multitude of different ways, and even moving an inch or two changed the whole look. Here’s how it looked from Orange County, California…

My 20-month old nephew and mom’s new puppy made for fun pictures this Christmas…

Christmas 2008 Picture Gallery

Here are a few of my favorites…

I know, I know … I haven’t been posting much lately. The blog was mostly for travel- and photography-related posts, neither of which I’ve been doing lately.

But every once in a while I do edit some photos I took months ago. Here’s a new one of Kym looking out my window …

Just a few photos recently found of a long-past Thanksgiving (approximately 4 days ago, I think) … mostly my little nephew Branson, now 20-months old (and who said my name for the first time that day):

My mom, when my grandmother passed away, found some very old silverware hidden in the wall of her house. Turns out silverware was most likely coin silver that had been in our family since sometime before 1885. Until Thanksgiving 2008, no one had eaten with it for at least 30-40 years. Definitely an interesting touch …