Time enough at last…

Kept expecting Ben E. King to make an appearance…

“Hold that thought…”

Dual tryptichs.

In Old Pasadena, at the Armory Center for the Arts, upgrading a network of sad, sickly iMacs.

Overpasses overhead.

For a long, long time, engineers have planned and built long sections of roadway in Orange County’s atmosphere; blueprints that place tons of asphalt in the sky, atop rebar-reinforced concrete columns; overpasses conjured from nothing.

And now, the Orange County Transportation Authority begins a six-month study to look at improving traffic in central Orange County. One thing to be considered: extending the Orange (57) Freeway along the Santa Ana River riverbed to the San Diego (I-405) Freeway.

Because water can only be channeled and not stopped, the river will still be allowed to serve as a drainage channel, and the freeway — if it comes to that — will be closed the few days a year when the water level rises, as water sometimes tends to do.

Neal. Jack.

This poster is a reproduction of a picture of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac that was taken by Carolyn Cassady in San Francisco in 1952.

This is the same picture on the cover of Neal Cassady’s unfinished biography, “The First Third.”

It’s also one of the few pictures of the two of them together.

Carolyn Cassady signed this twice.

No more.

Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who oversaw the recording of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say,” said he has worked with only three geniuses in the music business: Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Charles.

Charles’ rendition of “Georgia on My Mind” is probably his most famous song.  Other notables: “Hit the Road, Jack,” of course, and the haunting “Lonely Avenue.” And his duet with Betty Carter on “Baby, it’s Cold Outside” is tantamount to sublime.

His video for his cover of Leon Russell’s “A Song For You” was filmed inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles.