It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Thursday, July 29, 2021

1,2,3,4,5, Whitnall Parkway

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1. Burbank Fire Station

 

 

2. Sepiated

    bottlebrush

    flower

 

 

 

3. Whitnall Parkway

    figure eight

    walking/jogging trail.

    You can see

    3 dot-like figures.

    They are actually humans 

    exercising on the trail


4. On ground-level,

      adjacent to firehouse

    and ≈1/4 mile long

    is a very exclusive 

    apartment complex

    called  Magnolia Park 

   

    Many of its units 

    are controlled by film/TV studios

    such as Warner Brothers/ 

    Universal/Disney/NBC

    

    The apartments become home to

    unknown actors in new films/TV series

    with the studios hoping

    they are soon to be

    household names.

    In 1991, Jennifer Aniston

    lived there.

    Friends premiered 

    in 1994 

 


5. THE MEMORY

    I lived in a house

    across the street

    from Magnolia Park

    and one extremely 

    fond memory from 1993

    is my then-girlfriend's 

    two teenage daughters

    walking the track with me.

    We walked and talked 

    about this, that,

    and the other thing.

 

    Both girls were 

    as cute as a button,

    making me feel like

    the good "step-father."    

 

    The third time we walked

    the track together, We were laughing

    about their mother's spaghetti sauce

    stain on her nose.

    We had just completed a full lap

    but suddenly the two girls 

    reversed direction

    without my having 

    any idea why.

 

     I was soon to learn otherwise.

     

    The name, Slater, 

    meant not a thing to me

    and Mario Lopez was 

    an Algebra student of mine. 

    

   Obviously this was not 

   the same person

   but he had the same name.

 

    This  Mario Lopez  was the star

    of a show called 

    Saved By The Bell.

 

    My girlfriend's daughters

    walked behind the actor briefly

    then introduced themselves

    as great fans of the show

    and him.

 

    Mario, whose character was Slater,

    graciously gave both girls 

    autographed pictures

    and posters from the show. 

    

    That was the last time

    the girls and I

    walked together around 

    the Whitnall Highway track.

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