Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

That's the classic English pangram (sentence containing all 26 letters), one of few useful sentences I learned as a young kid and still remember, along with pneumonic devices "She made Harry eat onions" (the Great Lakes, west to east) and "Every good boy does fine" (treble scale).

The lazy dog sentence as far as I know arose out of a need to quickly test for stuck typewriter keys. The need to do anything efficiently (or at all) with a typewriter has gone completely obsolete, but pangrams are still good for trying out fonts, and for amusing word nerds such as myself.

I discovered the discotheque one in a photo app and then realized this was a thing beyond typewriters and typefaces, that people sit around coming up with them, and the sheer number of them far outpaces their usefulness.  I am not that much of a word nerd. The 26 letter ("perfect") pangrams are pretty much cheaters (examples: "Zombies play crwth, quj FDG xvnk" and "Jump dogs, why vex Fritz Blank QC?") insofar as you would define a sentence as loosely as: a thought that anyone sane would find a reason to utter out loud.

Once you allow some extra letters to sneak in though, you get some gems like:

Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.
Both fickle dwarves jinx my pig quiz.
Jack, love my big wad of sphinx quartz!
Five quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets.
When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.
Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game.
Foxy diva Jennifer Lopez wasn't baking my quiche.
Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen.
Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz.

.... all brilliant, I know, but the clear winner is:
"Who am taking the ebonics quiz?", the prof jovially axed.

Read it and weep.
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April Fish Day / you jackass!

An assortment of images I found today in an "April fool" google search

Louis Vuitton Series 2

Last day of this immersive somewhat psychedelic exhibit.  Definitely worth a peek.

Click here for address and info.

get lost, lost Lost exhibit.

This is not like that eight buffalos sentence. I didn't write it to be coy. I mean it.

I missed this Lost exhibit.

How?  How, how, how?  I am on their mailing list. How did I miss this? Los Angeles, you are driving me crazy. I'm saturated with stuff.  Add some hours to the day please, especially since I generally work at least 12 of them, like a crazy person oh wait like everyone else in Los Angeles, except when we aren't working and sit in coffee shops all day or surf or have brunch with our dogs on patios in t-shirts (that's us in t-shirts, not the dogs, not the patios) while everyone else is shoveling five feet of snow; and add some days to the week; and some weeks to the year. Because it's impossible to do everything, and that's really why I stick around, but it's driving me crazy.

Right now:

The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design - 23rd annual, at FIDM

allegedly ..... at the Hollywood Museum on Highland, the allegedly annual (though I've not heard of it, I can vouch for the Hannibal Lecter prison cell in the basement, so a wasted trip there is never wasted) "Celebration of Entertainment Awards" exhibit with some set pieces from Boyhood and Nightcrawler. Nothing about this on their website (which isn't maintained well, which is why I say "allegedly"), but they do say they have some Harry Potter things. And if they don't, the Warner Brothers museum does.

famous people's typewriters at the Paley Center.

and Paleyfest.

"Louis Vuitton Series 2 - Past, Present and Future" (immersive exhibit of Nicolas Ghesquière's vision for Louis Vuitton)

and Hollywood Costume at the new Academy Museum.

black and white and red all over

Stores on Beverly Drive.  Gareth Pugh.

eaten by the monster of love

Sparks played tonight at the Ace Hotel

... and a relic from my first Valentine's Day in L.A.

used Steinways

Used Steinways sign en route from my car to the spellbinding exhibit of Rolling Stones photos "It's Just a Shot Away" at Taschen Gallery on Beverly Blvd.  It's up until Feb. 28, if you could have possibly missed it with the dayglo pink paint.

a few favorites of mine:

"Patience Please" - Ethan Russell, 1972

"Keith & Pug" (Beggars Banquet outtake) - Michael Joseph, 1968

"Mick Jagger in Car With Leopard, Los Angeles" - Albert Watson, 1992

also some of these photos by Dominique Tarlé from Villa Nellcôtte

building exterior, although the pink is truly unphotographable:

While in the neighborhood, I stopped by Ahead Stereo finally, to ask something I have been meaning to ask for many years: what the HECK is that weird thing on the sign? And of course, the answer is that there is no answer.

Also poked my head into the amazing Walnut Wallpaper and looked through some sample papers:

it's almost The Shining ...

... or John Waters at the Grammy Awards ..