An old friend from San Francisco invited me to her BBQ/Bday party. Actually I worked with Veronica Torres on the show Latin Eyes. When I moved down to L.A. we tried doing some segments together but it never worked out. Instead we just go to each other's BBq 's every so often. The pic is her hitting the Pinata.

Nieghbor Julie had BBQ today. Invited the same old friends. We were having trouble getting the coals started until we got some lighter fluid.

south central farm is located on 43rd and Alameda in Los Angeles. It's a few acres of land that was once run by the food bank. they let farmers farm small plots of land thier under the condition that once the owner wanted the land back in 15 years that they would vacate the premisis. Well the Owner now wants his land back and the farmers don't want to leave and are protesting. Actually it's not so much the farmers that are protesting but professional protesters. The way I see it. All the farmers are locals and mostly ethnic immigrants where the protesters are famous white tree huggers who are now tree sitting to protest the eviction.

Shot news out in a small community in South East L.A. They were having some sort of celebration where they paid respect to the town virgin which is the doll in the photo.

Governor Swartzenhager came to East Los Angeles today to sign a bill that relates to schools. Other elected officials present were Mayor Villariagosa and Speaker Fabian Nunez. I ran into someone I had met a year ago. (you see back of her head taking a pic of mayor )When shooting the show "Merge" I worked on an episode where two cousins got a vacation at a resort in Laguna Beach, see February 5, 2005.

Michelle and I went hiking today at Fryman canyon. This is a photo of us after we came back down from the hike.

Did an interview today with Governor Canditate Phil Angeledes. It was at some union rally where they were going to walk the area and spread the word.

Ran a casting session today at Cocalaca studios. Casting director Criag Colvin's place right on Santa Monica Blvd. I like working there because it's within walking distance.

More black and Latino gang violence in South Central. I spent all day hanging out or Staking out this school because rumor had it that there was going to be a riot on cinco de mayo. Nothing really happened.

A very sad day. Today I dropped my pipe, "The Enterprise" and broke it. I've had that pipe for over 7 years. I got it in San Francisco at some head shop on Haight Street when I lived there.

Did a story in South Central L.A. today. The 77th police district. A reporter and I did a ride along with a police sergeant. He took us around showing us all the gang graffitti and where someone had been killed the night before. Latino on Black violence. There was a shrine on the location with candles and all. The mother of the victim was there. When the reporter I was with asked if we could do an interview with her, some Latino woman who was just walking along the street helped her clean up and straighten her shirt and hair. Very touching experience.

today I met the man. I was at the assignment desk at telemundo when we saw that Hulk Hogan was on the Tonight Show. I ran down to the midway and saw the limo waiting to pick him up so I waited around. There were a few youngsters waiting around to see him also. So he came out of the studio with his wife and family. After his family got in the limo it looked like hulk was going to join them. So I yelled out. " Hey Hulk! How about a Photo?". I heard him say "ok" and he came over. the security guard put us In line and I was the first one. So as he came over I stuck out my hand and He grabbed it and we shot the photo.