London (and Hampton Court), Kempton, (Upper) Hengoed, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Bishops Castle, Paris, Barcelona.  Not a bad batch of towns for two weeks. Then 23-1/2 hours of door-to-door travel (including fifteen hours on planes, ugh), lost luggage,...

What, vacation already? Jeezus, he’s only after gettin’ the blog up and rolling … barely three weeks and already he’s fecking off out of town? Well, yeah. So, Looka! is likely to be rather unattended for the next two weeks. I may try to make a few...

To be specific, I’d like to talk about my favorite movie poster for a movie I’ve never seen, based upon a novel I’ve never read. In 1959 the well-known and popular author of Western novels Louis L’Amour wrote one called Taggart (hey, catchy title). I...

I spied this on the liquor shelf of a Rite-Aid drugstore in Santa Monica. It was a brand of bottom-shelf rotgut vodka I’d never seen before — plastic bottle, of course — but then I noticed the brand had two varieties. Regular, and … this. “Borski...

Finally, this place is gonna start looking a bit more like it used to! As of today, we’ve got the basic look of the blog down.  The theme is based on the free Vesper theme by Valen Designs, which had the kind of layout we were looking for, if not so...