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In case I ever need to replace the ones I wear every day.

Damn you Mongolians!

Cause everyone has one.

Nine of Spades

Because the current themed alphabet was Red Letters - but I missed it anyway.

Home of cheap meat-esque products.

Flags in US fly at half mast for 30 days following the death of a president (in this case Ford). It's a law or something.

I have wanted to put this in atrocious apostrophe's for the best part of a year thinking it should be Carl Jr's. However, research indicates that in fact it's OK. The original restaurants were called Carl's The drive through / burger bar incarnations are Junior versions. Hence Carl's Jr. Bah Ah well, it's still a Star Not Star.

Just because

In Downtown Burbank

Outside the Police and Fire Headquarters

Outside the Police and Fire Headquarters

Prime location

These are everywhere. The US army has a kind of mythic quality.

If you believe Jurassic Park 2. Actually Downtown Burbank. Not showing any lingering signs of T-Rex damage.

Where the people who make the movies, see the movies Apparently

Or at least it used to be. From Jurassic Park 2 The bookshop where the screenwriter David Koepp, in a cameo as ‘Unlucky Bastard’ gets chomped by the T-Rex

For Burbank

The dude on the left accosted me while I was snapping my Jurassic Park pictures and asked if I wanted his picture. I couldn't think of anything better to say than "I don't know do I want your picture?" at which point he smiled and walked off. Weirdo. I decided to I would have his picture anyway. I now can't decide if he I hope he wasn't famous (so I didn't miss out) or I hope he was famous and was miffed I didn't recognize him.

Burbank has it's own power station, right in the centre of town.

I don't know a lot about electricity, but I'm pretty sure that in England we don't store it in buckets at the top of poles.

I love this place. Fill your bowl with meat and veg, and watch as they add noodles and cook the whole thing with huge sticks on a big ass metal plate. Genius Unfortunately I'm too embarassed to try for a better photograph.

Out of date and redundant heat wave warning sign at LA Zoo

Everything else is probably OK.

"It is critical that we understand that this new form of terrorism carries another more subtle, perhaps equally pernicious, risk. Because it might encourage a fear-driven and inappropriate response. By that I mean it can tempt us to abandon our values. I think it important to understand that this is one of its primary purposes."

Just a logo

Lockheed used to make planes in Burbank. They appear to have left one behind. It's an F-104 Starfighter by the way (hence the title).

2 of your finest Aerobooks please my good man.

Missing an apostrophe or a word I don't know?

I think that the proprietor is the psychic and that he or she reads the cards. The cards themselves are probably not pyschic.

Home of the "Big Boy"

Poster for Superman II the Richard Donner cut. This iconic image has been overtaken by popular culture. Now all I see is a goatse reference.