Doug Schwartz

Doug Schwartz

@dougschwartz.bsky.social

Social media newbie. Influences: Gibran, Serling, Chayefsky. Into: music, living things, motion. Occupation: listener.

88 Followers 58 Following 78 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago

The future, Mr. Gittes?

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3 weeks ago

Per this thread, I left the theater spitting angry. The money spent for this! I scrolled down this entire thread to chime in here.

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1 month ago
At 6am on February 9, 1971 in the City of the Angels, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck with an epicenter five miles northeast of the city of San Fernando. Though the quake lasted just 60 seconds, 64 people lost their lives, property damage was extensive, and  residents got a reminder they might’ve forgotten since the last major earthquake, the 1933 Long Beach earthquake which killed at least 115 people. Amongst the estimated half-billion dollars worth of property damage caused by the earthquake was the partial collapse of the lower Van Norman reservoir at the north of the San Fernando Valley. This critical failure was the reason approximately 80,000 people were evacuated for four days while a frantic effort to drain the reservoir was undertaken. Had the dam failed completely, the flood would’ve washed away homes from Granada Hills, North Hills, and Van Nuys before filling the LA River and likely causing additional damage as it washed to the sea. Another dramatic effect of the earthquake was the collapse of a section of the Newhall Pass interchange (I-5 / CA14) which was still under construction at the time but substantially completed. Two 191 foot bridge sections fell about 140 feet down, along with one of the support pillars. This photo is the album cover of The Doobie Brothers 1973 release, “The Captain And Me” with their hit song “China Grove”.

Happy (?) 55th anniversary of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake to all who observe.

My dog woke me up just prior, by jumping on the bed and refusing to get off. My alarm would’ve gone off at 6 anyway, so I got out of bed and then—

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1 month ago

Can I get a participation trophy?

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1 month ago

“…where there’s hate…”

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2 months ago
Preview
Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...

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2 months ago

Again:

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2 months ago

Full grown chickens still eat from them to this very day!

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2 months ago

Any NPR affiliate

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2 months ago

Can you get it from listening to the radio?

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2 months ago
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"I think the role, and the play, have tremendous significance in these times — certainly far and above the usual junk that shouts at you from the television box."

— Joseph Schildkraut (Becker) on Serling's Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited"

#TwilightZoneMarathon

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2 months ago

Also, valid mnemonic Sam!

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2 months ago

So sharp, Paddy would’ve loved it.

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2 months ago

Tinfinger

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2 months ago
Padre’s Shooting Star growing in gravelly scree on a high plateau in full sun near the coast in Ventura County, California

Observed at Circle X 12/20/25:
Padre’s Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon clevelandii) showing up early in the season-likely the November rains helped. Always a happy sight!
#bloomscrolling
#flowers
#flowersonbluesky

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2 months ago
A tribute on the outside of the recording studio originally called “Cherokee Ranch”, which was started by the Robb Brothers (Bruce, Dee, and Joe) featuring the cover of their album, and Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” alongside a picture of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

The three brothers from Wisconsin were a touring band with a recording contract with ABC Records but found far greater success as studio impresarios, beginning at Cherokee Ranch then really hitting their stride after moving their studio business to 751 N. Fairfax in West Hollywood, a studio complex formerly owned by MGM Records. It was that facility on Fairfax that George Martin proclaimed was “the best studio in America”.


These gardens and artwork at the early location is literally on “the backside of the barn”, as the studio was originally equine lodging in the remotest hinterlands of the San Fernando Valley.

Behold: the Cherokee Studios/Steely Dan Memorial Gardens.

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2 months ago
A crimson sunrise over the San Fernando Valley on 11/18/2025

Even in true blue California, we have room for red from time to time.

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2 months ago
“Nature’s hardest hue to hold”-gold and rose hues on the horizon as the sun rises.

Despite the darkness, the sun rose again. Good Sunday morning to all!

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3 months ago

So deeply saddened.
Single-handedly keep the big band genre alive and vital. Who will carry the torch for such acoustic brilliance? Waynard step up.

😔

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3 months ago

this is one of my favorites. sometimes simplest is best

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3 months ago

Neil, this is why every two or three years you should just go ahead and splurge and get yourself a new bank.

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3 months ago

when millennials take control of the process I think he will be

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3 months ago

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”

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4 months ago

Hopefully we’ll be told he played 24 innings of WS baseball in, what, 26 hours. Fits the definition for me :)

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5 months ago

Easily 20 years after this episode aired, I saw Jonathan Winters in the hallway at United/Western studios. I approached him and said “Say, aren’t you Fats Brown?”. He immediately dropped into character and started telling me he was the best that ever was.

Turns out he was right!

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5 months ago

A good start would be to embroider “Sánchez” “Luzardo” and “Suarez” on the back of their jerseys.

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5 months ago

BOO HOO!

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5 months ago
A praying mantis on my front doorstep.

“Who’s at the front door?”
“Another extra from Resident Alien”

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5 months ago
A wooly blue curls plant in the yard, Trichostema lanatum. Reputedly fussy about its culture, this individual stubbornly continues to bloom. Closeup of the blue curls. If lightly rubbed, the leaves release a scent reminiscent of pine or cedar.

I look outside and it seems so dark today, it’s raining

But I walked by this living thing and it is in bloom

Still.

I think it’s been in bloom at least since Jan 20, if not before

Through the heat and the wind, never failing

Now the rain honors it

I’m standing in the rain

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5 months ago

He tries to set records; you MAKE records!

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