U Studio Yoga - Everyone should be blessed with a friend and yoga instructor like Andrea Marcum.

D.D. Wood is a friend and brilliant musician and a soon to be best selling author. You can find her album on Amazon, as well as occasionally listen to her live in Long Beach, sometimes playing with Gypsy Trash.

Canon's EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM - This is one of the most brilliant lenses ever made and well worth the $1200-$1500. It forces you to get to close to your subjects, which is a good thing. The color: amazing. And any tilt/perspective issues you can correct with Photoshop. I mean, seriously, it takes you five minutes in CS4. And anyway, if you're doing professional architectural photography, you've already got a fucking tilt shift lens.

christinebrennan.net - Chris is a friend and a very gifted artist. I include her on this website gladly. She captures a dreamscape that reminds you of childhood, but not in a cloying way. At all!

David Erik Erwline - a young man who is doing some great flash fiction.

Antonio Lobo Antunes - amazing Portuguese writer.

David Mitchell - amazing English writer. He makes me glad to be alive.

Jennifer Egan - "Selling The General" - short story that made me feel bummed that I hadn't written it, but glad for Jennifer.

Lysley Tenorio's "Monstress" - one of my all-time favorite short stories.

http://trafficwaves.org/ - interesting theories about traffic congestion.

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/ - I'm not even going to pretend to be embarrassed by this one.

Scott Doyle's blog about Los Angeles literary events and about his own writing.

The League of Gentlemen - not the graphic novel, the brilliant BBC TV show.

The New Short Fiction Series - At the Beverly Hills Library every second Friday of the month, they feature a West Coast writer. 4 stories performed by professional (and that means real, working, talented) actors. I was the featured writer in May 2009. The actors make the stories come to life in ways no writer (even the most gifted reader of his/her work, such as David Sedaris) can.