Downtown Los Angeles, 1862
Downtown Los Angeles, intersection of Main, Spring, and Temple streets, 1863
MacArthur Park, 1887
MacArthur Park, 1892
Hollywood, 1900
Hollywood, corner of Highland and Franklin, 1903
Hollywood, Highland Avenue north of Hollywood Boulevard, 1906
Hollywood, Cahuenga Pass, 1878
Beachwood Canyon, 1900
Hollywood Blvd. at Sunset Blvd., 1904
Sunset Blvd. c. Normandie, 1900
Site of future Melrose Avenue, looking north, 1876
Santa Monica Boulevard near the future La Brea Avenue, 1900
Santa Monica Boulevard at Western Avenue, 1906
Western Avenue south of Sunset, 1906
Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, 1896
Western Avenue north of Pico, 1895
Western Avenue at Washington Blvd., 1900
East Hollywood, 1905
Los Feliz, view from the future Barnsdall Park, 1890
Los Feliz, Los Feliz Blvd. at Griffith Park Blvd., 1910
The Los Feliz River, now Los Feliz Blvd. at Hillhurst Ave., 1884
Griffith Park, 1900
Griffith Park, 1902
Silverlake, 1907
Echo Park, Sunset Blvd. and Glendale Avenue, 1904
Echo Park Lake, 1892
The Los Angeles River, near downtown, 1900
The Los Angeles River, near Glendale, 1889
Beverly Hills, Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Drive, 1911
Bel Air, 1907
Coldwater Canyon, 1910
Benedict Canyon, 1890
The La Brea Tar Pits, 1911
Future site of LACMA, 1902
Culver City, 1903
Santa Monica, 1898
Santa Monica, 1895
Santa Monica, 1887
Santa Monica Canyon, 1885
Malibu, future Pacific Coast Highway, 1905
Compton, 1903
The San Fernando Valley, 1875
The San Fernando Valley, 1900
North Hollywood, 1909
Glendale, Verdugo Blvd. and Clifton Place, 1904
Lincoln Heights, Hancock Street, 1900
Highland Park, 1894
Pasadena, Colorado Blvd., 1895
Pasadena, Colorado Boulevard at Marengo Avenue, 1890
Pasadena, southwest corner of East California Blvd. and South Wilson Ave, 1905
Altadena, 1907
Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains, 1893
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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hey. Maybe it could be argued that 18 year old escorts are the seers of their generation? Any touching up I do, say with BrokeFemboy, is so minimal and merely helpful enough that he/they always get the credit. You can’t money launder with cryptocurrency? I literally know next to nothing about cryptocurrency. I like that the word crypt is involved, but that also wards me off. Mm, the empty IKEA space is mildly exciting, but mostly for wondering what in world is going to go into that gigantic space in this day and age. I’d like to have an hour-long conversation about games and consciousness, so … score. Monday’s here. Nothing we can do about that. ** James, Hey. Good, those posts need lots of attention just like their stars. I should write an epic poem about LA if for no other reason than to dethrone Jim Morrison as people’s idea of LA’s poetic know-it-all. Dod you know that he even wrote an actual poem, not even a song, whose first lines are ‘Los Angeles, you’re a woman / and you spread your legs for me’. LA deserves so, so, so much better. I wonder why they’re called ‘Daddy’. Why they’re called ‘Long Legs’ is a given. I think ‘ally’ is what straight people call themselves when they have a queer friend for two? ** Steeqhen, I know, he’s so nice, right? And not shabby looking either. Nice day there, chill but with sufficient detailing. Mine was chill too, but with insufficient detailing. ** Misanthrope, I know rich people who are perfectly nice too. Not as generous as they should be, so a problem with selfishness, but nice, yes. My weekend was both chill and chilly too. How about that. ** Måns BT, Hey, Måns! The blog missed you too, and so did I! Wow, I hope your last school day did whatever it could possibly do to send you off into the realms of freedom with a grin. Awesome about your friends. Friends are the best of the world in a hand basket, really, it’s easy to forget that. I’ve been fine, I think, wait, yes, totally fine. Paris gets quite decorated for Xmas, so Xmas is everywhere I look, so I guess I am feeling it, which is good, right? And I don’t have to buy people gifts or get gifts, so I’m totally squared away in the Xmas spirit without the pressure points. ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion, yes, indeed, agreed. Fun! ‘A Night to Dismember’ is hard to top. ‘Deadly Weapons’ has its charms. Great to see you! I hope to get to do that again sooner than later. Enjoy your first day off. ** Steve, Yes, and DirtySven seems to be making some decent bank. My weekend was good. We scored the world premiere for our film, but I can’t say anything about that publicly for a while. I’m in a fun level of my video game aka ‘Shroom Temple’. I’m in its dance club, and the shroom DJ asked me to find a record he accidentally lost somewhere, and I found it, and now I have to find all the shrooms in the temple and lure them to the disco and fill the dance floor with them, after which something good will happen, but I don’t know what yet. I’m sorry to hear your weekend was full of coughing. Hopefully no longer. That’s weird, they just did a INTERSTELLAR 5555 event here too. Boy, was that a good record: ‘Discovery’. ** Dominik, Hi!!! So sorry about your aunt’s less than stellar taste in boyfriends. What’s the cult-like group? What’s their thing? My weekend was good: see my report to Steve. No, the Herzog screening was jammed shut, darn. Haha, love didn’t deserve that comment. Damn Love is a Seriously Fuck’n Sexy METH Slam Injecting Hot and Homely PIG 💉👍, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey. I’ve heard of ‘Lady Killers’, I think. I might’ve even seen it. Will check. Will do, if not. Thanks, buddy. ** Lucas, Hi, L. I’m good. Mm, I think I understand what you’re getting at, but I’m also thinking you might be in an ‘overthinking’ moment. Personally, I’d just put it away and give it a short rest and then go back to it when you’re feeling capable of being wide-eyed and innocent when reading it. I think maybe you had different expectations when writing it, and maybe it isn’t what you were hoping but maybe it’s actually pretty A-okay and doing something that you didn’t anticipate and can’t recognise yet because you’re still too close to what your original goal was. That’s my guess, and, yeah, I’ve been there before. I say let yourself write what you’re excited to write and don’t worry if you’re capable. Capability is something that accumulates, not something you can lock down before writing. Be patient and trust yourself. From the outside, i.e. me and surely other of your readers, the trust is there. If that makes sense at all? ** Jimmy, Jimmy, wow, that’s an interesting new name. Thanks about the lads up above yesterday. A favorite? Hm, I don’t know, maybe BrokeFemboy. Ange is sweet, and he’s a very good poet, yes. And a fine actor (he’s in ‘Room Temperature’). Huh, I think I now have, like, seven friends who read tarot for income of some degree. Interesting. Sounds interesting of course. Anyway, you have some solid, and, in a couple of cases, mysterious friends. Nice. I’m alright. Getting things done, and that’s enough for me. Happy increasingly almost Xmas. ** HaRpEr, I think in France you can’t smoke indoors anywhere. But at least you can smoke in restaurants/bars’ outdoor seating areas. In the US, you can’t even do that anymore. And a lot of businesses have signs that say ‘No smoking within 25 feet of the entrance’. I do like that feeling of ‘these are my people’ when you’re in one of those nasty smoking rooms in airports. It’s very easy to be a vegetarian in Paris. That wasn’t the case when I first moved here, but Paris is very vegetarian friendly now. No problem at all. Granted, I don’t eat at traditional French restaurants, but it’s almost as breezy being a vegetarian here as in LA where vegetarians practically run the city. So I don’t know how your friend had those bad experiences. Maybe it was years ago? Great luck with the submission. Nice title re: subject matter. If Hobart and Expat don’t take it, just send it elsewhere. There are a lot of good lit sites these days. I used to be friends with Minnie Riperton’s daughter. She confirmed the seeming myth that her mom’s voice could shatter glass. I hope your weekend was merely a preview of the wonderfulness of your week. ** alex, Hi, alex! Super good to see you! It feels like ages! Fucking Cloudflare. It’s fucking Satan. The start of winter here has been pretty good, cold enough but not out to murder its citizens, yet anyway. And we had one full day of snow even, for the first time in decades. Congrats about The Vermin! Yay! Can The Vermin be accessed online, or, I guess, ordered? Great! Right, I forgot that I donated a joke to Lynne’s book. I can’t remember the joke. Maybe a Kurt Cobain suicide one? Lynne told me a creepy joke that I sometimes tell people: ‘Why do women wear makeup and perfume?’ ‘Because they’re ugly and they smell bad’. That’s strange: I just got an email from Louise Weard. I haven’t opened it yet. And I don’t think I’ve seen her movie. And I think I had better watch it post-haste. Yes, I hope you can conquer Cloudflare repeatedly, as it’s very good to get to talk with you. ** Justin D, Hi. Oh, cool, glad you liked Cecil B. Demented’ too. I think it’s a crime that Kathleen Turner didn’t get the Oscar for ‘Serial Mom’ or even get nominated for fuck’s sake. You’re correct in thinking that ‘Dancer from the Dance’ is not my thing. I did read it way back when. It definitely has its fans, and I’m sure there’s a good reason. My weekend wasn’t bad. I said something about it up above. Kind of meandering in a not unpleasant way. Yours? ** Darby𓃱𓃱, Excellent giraffes, you are right. The giraffe is probably my favorite animal. If you saw escorts, that was the right post. You can type on a phone and walk a dog at the same time? Wow. Oh, you’re speaking at your phone. That’s a little less spectacular, but still. It sounds like congratulations are in order about you exiting the transition house, yes? Congrats! That’s big news, no? I like you as one of Santa’s elves. I like that image. Even with the grubby little fingers problem. After8 is great, yeah. It’d be much harder to live here without it. I don’t know why it’s called that. I’m going to ask them. ** Corey, I made the mistake of sharing a fresh, full little bottle of cocaine with an escort one time, and he was taking his hit and said, I have to pee, and took the bottle with him, and, sure enough, returned with an empty bottle and said he’d accidentally dropped it in the toilet, and the bottle wasn’t even wet! Khat: I only know the name. I’ll add Wikipedia’s input to yours and dwell on the likelihood or not of trying it. No, the Herzog screening was way, way sold out. Sadly. Everyone, Corey has some advice for those of you who are having problems getting through the Cloudflare doorman to comment here. Here’s Corey: ‘(1) Try using a different browser. For me Firefox works but Chrome doesn’t. Makes sense, given how Google once murdered this blog. (2) The most reliable way to open the current blog post is to click a link from Facebook — either the “Dennis Cooper’s Blog” Facebook account or Dennis’s personal Facebook account. Dennis posts a link to the blog from both of those Facebook accounts every time he publishes a new post.’ Give those shot. Can’t hurt. Thanks, pal. ** nat, Hi, nat. Luckily the blog’s week just sits there waiting for those who have had better things to do. Thank you for the kind comments about the posts. They feel fresh as a daisy. A ‘PGL’ night, excellent. Well, theoretically. I really do need to take a long look at ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ because, like I’ve said, ‘Final Fantasy’ is just a very stylised total mystery to me. You look more than vaguely cool, based on that portrait. Ryan Gosling is one of those actors where, if he’s in a movie, I don’t see the movie. He’s like curdled milk to me or something. ** Okay. I’m not entirely sure what effect today’s post will have on those of you who don’t know Los Angeles, but I feel like there’s a kind of basic charisma there that translates. Still, that’s your call. See you tomorrow.
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Hola Dennis! I know next-to-nothing about LA, outside of fiction. My mom’s really into 40s/50s cinema, so Sunset Blvd is very much something I know primarily as a film, rather than the actual street. It’s also the location of a videogame I really like, so I’m super curious about actually visiting someday, hopefully after I graduate.
Hmm, about cryptocurrency, it’s sort of able to be used to launder money, technically, but it’s just not very good for it. The whole goal of money laundering is to take suspicious money and “create” a pleasant history for it, and taking a huge amount of money from a cryptocurrency account always tends to raise eyebrows from financial investigators. I use it a lot to buy ketamine (haha), so I know a little more than most, I guess. Hmm… well, hopefully something nice replaces the IKEA – what’s your dream replacement?
Yeah, it was a great conversation [RE: the games discussion at the party], she plays games I personally find pretty impossible (in terms of how much you need to think about numbers and statistics, like Final Fantasy 14 or World of Warcraft or something), but I was able to sort of hold my own in the conversation because of how much my boyfriend plays those games. Hmm, other than that, I’ve got to pack up – I’m heading home a week or so earlier than I expected, so I’ve got to do some wrapping for Christmas. I got my sister a copy of Period, btw – she loved Closer and I Wished, but I think Frisk was a bit much for her, haha. Anyway, have an amazing day!
Dennis, Yes, chilly here. We’ve been going under freezing at night and staying in the high 30s/low 40s during the day. I don’t like it.
Starting to wonder if I have arthritis in my shoulders suddenly, haha. Man, they’re taking turns hurting for no reason at all. Bleh.
I need better sleep. I’m a work on that tonight.
You ever seen the 1974 California-set horror Messiah of Evil? Was raved about today on Philip Best’s essential Letterboxd account so will probs watch that one tonight methinks.
Hey Dennis,
Finished Guide yesterday, and then read Period straight after. I had been in bed reading from 10pm-2am, I was entranced. Period was incredible, although I will need to re-read it, as I was so tired that it took me way too long to recognize that Noel was Leon backwards!
Went to the gym and now I’m sat working on my last essay of the year. Hoping to get most of it done by Tuesday night. I’m going to a Christmas dinner thing with friends, and I need to come up with something to cook and bring. Any suggestions? I know that when I’m finished this essay, a weight will be lifted and the sun will shine brighter and I will be free to indulge in all my side projects and hobbies (for at least a month anyway, then it’s back to the grind).
If you want an idea of my environment right now, the caret is reddish, with blots of a maroon that makes it look blood-splattered. The seats are a winey colour, and so are the walls that aren’t floor to ceiling windows. It’s cozy. Right next to me is some high-tech planter with UV lamps and lettuce and yellow tomato plants… very strange and futuristic, I love it.
Update: doing secondary reading for my Shirley Jackson essay, and this journal article I’m reading is making me want to write an entire academic thesis on The Real Housewives, using Jackson and her suburban housewife gothic as a backdrop. The author (Eric Savoy) is speaking about the reality tv show ‘Hoarders’ and how the viewer is not necessarily marveling at the spectacle of the strangeness of the hoarder, but is invited ‘to situate himself in a punctual relation to such collapsed subjects’, and how the hoarder is consumed by their home and possessions.
I cannot wait to be free from the shackles of mandatory academic essays and can start writing academic essays on stuff like that!
hey Dennis!
it does feel like ages although I was able to catch the livestream of your reading with Derek in NYC back in the fall so it feels like I’ve seen you but maybe through a one way mirror. it was a treat to hear you read Torn From Something, that’s one of my favourite things you’ve written.
agreed cloudfare is satanic in the sense that it’s faceless and almost made me give up completely but it seems I had luck posting through a vpn set to Estonia of all places.
also yes, the Vermin has a website (thevermin.ca) where you can order issues but I don’t think this next one’s been officially announced yet. they don’t seem to post online versions which is a bit of a bummer but I’ll link again once it’s out in the world/maybe share a scan of my story for you and anyone else who wants to read it 🙂
I do remember that joke in the book (“What were Kurt Cobain’s last words? Hole’s gonna be big”) It’s a classic. I like that joke of hers you shared too, she has a wicked sense of humour. Any suggestions on which of her books to read next after No Lease on Life?
I’m taking some time off work these next few weeks for the holidays which I’m looking forward to. gonna spend time with friends who are here to visit and want to get started on a few new zine ideas I’ve had rattling around my head. any fun plans on your end this week?
Hi!!
You scored the world premiere for your film?! Dennis, that’s so fantastic! I’m super happy for you! Congratulations!!
The whole conversation with Anita’s aunt and her boyfriend was a bit awkward because they both seemed deeply involved in this group but shared very little actual information about it, even though they were the ones who brought up the subject in the first place. Both Anita and I were genuinely interested, but maybe that didn’t come across, as they said they knew most people thought it was all BS. Anyway, from what I could gather, the group considers itself science based rather than faith based (at least in a religious sense). They claim to work with various energies to shape their lives and heal (both themselves and others). The guy specifically mentioned techniques like “Prananadi” and “mind control,” but they both emphasized that these are just tools – what really matters is the underlying philosophy, which they didn’t seem comfortable sharing in detail.
Love sounds like a total catch, doesn’t he? Love is a snooty, erudite, hyperactive hyena, Od.
Hullo, D-Dawg. Not the kid of post I was expecting from the blog, it can be a unpredictable little (or big) thing. Always a bit weird for me seeing America pre-burgerpunk. American history is not something I’m strong on. The civil war and Southern Gothic intrigue me, especially the dude on dude bits, duh. Lincoln in the Bardo is quite a nice novel imho.
Now it’s just waiting for the slaves post, woohoo. I’ve had a good day, really – my team in a Christmas quiz won! I’m not sure how much time/effort goes into curating those guys, but it sure is worth it, however much (probably more than I could ever be arsed to put in).
Jim Morrison seemed like quite a tool. The Doors are good though, duh, love those first two albums. Morrison is not who I go to for… poetry. City as a promiscuous lady is kinda yawn-worthy, I’m afraid, in terms of imagery/metaphor. I’m more into the idea of a city as a circuit board, a bit Crying of Lot 49-y, maybe.
I really don’t know America super well, for as much as I like to shit on the country as a snobby Brit. I get/got LA mixed up with Las Vegas, for whatever reason. Am just quite plugged in to dear old Blighty, I guess.
The daddy part of daddy long legs has always fucked me up. Just. Why. Terrible. Google (ever the trustworthy tool) gives me a shrug if I ask it, apart from ‘some people think it may have come from the name of a novel called Daddy Long-legs, written in 1912.’ But otherwise, apocryphal. How creepy. How can you look at that thing and think ‘mm, paternal.’ Get that person into therapy, ASAP!
Could it be… I’m a token gay friend?!?! WHAT AN HONOUR! I’m *finally* a stereotype in real life! Woohoo!
Had a fun evening last night with family friends, playing games and going for a ride whilst blasting music and being generally teenage nuisances. I ended up sitting on a girl’s lap for quite some time, somehow, which was a new experience. That amused people. How crazy gender-subverting I am, wow wow wow.
Hella festive right now. Tschuss, Den!
P.S. jay, I DID finish Portal 1 and yes it WAS awesome and YES Portal 2 is even better not least because it somehow runs far better and looks far better on my middling laptop (which I love) than Portal 1 did, the optimisation is crazy good, it looks so pretty and smooth, I love it. I might be in love with GLaDOS as a character, I talked to my friend about it this morning, which got me a weird look and ‘you’re weird’ laughs from my chum. She’s a potato. SO portable. Portalble… God I love her, what an awesome character. Her slow clap processor, gawsh. AMAZING character design, I don’t often care quite so much for fictional characters. I’m so into computers and people and the intersection right now. I wanna play SOMA after Portal 2. Plus read MORE ReadOnlyMind stuff for STRICTLY WRITING INVESTIGATION PURPOSES BECAUSE THE CONCEPTS AND STYLE INTEREST ME. Read one last night about a chaste nun drone. Like, man, that’s cool to me. And then the robot got eaten by worms after orgasm. Yeesh, talk about a comedown. The superior/inferior dynamics between people/computers is something I’m into at the moment. Hrng I love having interesting ideas to think about, yusssss.
Microwaving old tea is totes a scummy gross trashy thing of me to do, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Putting stuff together can be satisfying. I think there’s some *real* money in the field of edible Jenga, jay. Keep your eyes peeled.
I really dislike ABBA. It’s the opinion that gets me accused of contrarianism, and not the kind of unpopular opinion which has many other people which share it and make it seem not so unpopular. Every time I say I don’t like ABBA I have always been met with indignant responses.
Best with your disserjaytion! A good Monday, all in all.
Yeah, Portal 2 weirdly is in the same engine as Portal 1 – they just wrangled it a little better, in terms of performance and visual quality. She’s such a good character – maybe even better written when she’s totally powerless in Portal 2. Huh, that’s crazy, the story you read I mean. Scummy/gross/trashy is kind of awesome, in my book, I’m an ally to anyone who embraces that. Disliking ABBA is entirely acceptable – if I’m in a bad mood, I kind of hate them too, but they’re just harmonically perfect when I’m feeling upbeat. Anyway, see ya!
Hey Dennis. Apologies for my radio silence for the last few…months, I guess? It’s been a weird period for me. I’ve been thinking of you of late + I’ve not been spending as much time as I would like making art and taking it in = I wanted to come back and hang out here for a bit. Would obviously love also to meet up irl soon in Paris, but will probably be 2025 in all likelihood as I leave town for Xmas in a week. But if I understand today’s PS correctly your film has its premiere lined up? That’s insanely mega ultra great news!!! Super happy for you and Zac… You’ll give us a heads-up as soon as there are any Parisian screenings? I think that’s it for things I wanted to say to you, otherwise I was surprised today by the fact they had photography in the 1800s. I thought that was firmly a twentieth century thing. Anyway, hopefully if I remember I’ll come back tomorrow to chat. Love to you, xT.
Is “shroom temple” part of Paper Mario? (I downloaded LSD DREAM EMULATOR a few months ago and played it a few times, but from the title, I was anticipating something much more mind-blowing. Maybe it was in 1996, but the graphics are pretty dated now.)
Great, the world premiere’s on the way! Your persistence in trying to rid yourselves from the asshole producer paid off.
I posted my top 10 films of 2024 yesterday:
1. I SAW THE TV GLOW
2. CHIME
3. RED ROOMS
4. THE HUMAN SURGE 3
5. COMA
6. NO OTHER LAND
7. NICKEL BOYS
8. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN
9. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED
10. HIT MAN
Hi Dennis, I’m so sorry about the weird names I pick; I’m just aware that so many people read your blog, and I don’t want to be found out… I hope this doesn’t sound paranoid. I now want to watch Room Temperature even more! Yes, tarot is an interesting one. It’s helped me a lot, and I loved reading for other people yesterday; I hope it can become a regular source of income/ side hustle for me – it’s much easier than my other job. I totally get the charm of that broke femboy! Though my new “mysterious” friend isn’t a twink at all, and I appreciate this at this point…He has long blond hair though it’s giving more viking than twink. The only issue with him is that he lives closeby and my best friend has begged me to “stop being a gay man” and “don’t shit where you eat”. I’ll see him in my exercise class and the Xmas drinks afterwards tonight. Would it be possible for Dennis Cooper to send me chaste vibes for once so I won’t get into trouble hahaha? I hope you get to feast on your bûche sooooon!
Hey, Dennis! Lovely photographs—almost like looking at never-seen baby photos of a dear friend. Congrats on securing the world premiere of ‘RT’! Can’t wait until you can say more. 🍿
Look at that!
Isnt it just very fascinating to ponder what the places we lived were like years ago?
In NC there is a theater called Thalian Hall and its been here since 1855.
Theres a lot of cool historry but I just smoked and I just got off work so im a bit dazed.
Maybe they call it After8 because if you go in after 8 you get to see the hidden anthropodermic Salo book. behind acasing? Or not maybe you just get arrested or something.
Im so proud of myself because this friday i’ll be getting 300$!! for working]\
YOu never answered my question if you’d be a dog what would you do.
I Hate my body I hate everyone and you and whoever the fuck else cares enough to hear.
I went to that place today that the transtion place set me up with every questions the same kill me every day.
I think of that stupid fucking nurse I met at the fucking hospital when I was 17. How they laughed in my face when I asked to use the bathroom. Funny enough I planned on throwing up my dinner in the bathroom but instead I grabbed the pen in front of their stupid fucking blind eyes and jabbed it into my arms.
Fuclk everyone and fuck my friends too because they suck,
I wrote more but be happy I deleted it. I dont care if you hate more or if anyone hates me anymore I just hope someone hates me enough tokill me or maybe realize that theyre hatried its towards a corpse and im pathetic
I keep writing things about hate and I realise that maybe I should just direct it at myself because im tired of this. There is a reason I have nothing. BYEE
I never asked how your day. was im selfish and stupid.
Thank you for your words about my writing. I really am generally in an overthinking moment right now, so it makes sense. I’m so glad to hear about the movie getting its world premiere. I’m too exhausted to say anything else but just wanted to drop in and say hi.
hey man,
Sorry for the absence. Work, baby and life a bit overwhelming at the moment. We just moved house again as well. I hope you’re well man, I’ve got some catching up to do. Today looks beautiful.
Hope you’re well