"My mind is a cloud and the cloud is loud…" The Swimming Pool Q's

Dual tryptichs.

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

Troubled.

Years before this was taken, early one cold January morning, this minnow-hipped, scarecrow carcass of a cat, got tangled in a baker’s rack while attacking dangerous moths as he stalked them from beneath a porch light.

He probably leapt up at one of them, more than likely, then snagged a hind paw in the ornate ornamentation of the rack. For one hysterical moment he dangled there — like Jim Hutton in “The Green Berets” when he gets trapped, tragically, in the snare toward the end of the movie.

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.

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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.”

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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.

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Deckard lived here in Blade Runner.

Ennis House is the largest of four textile-block homes Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Los Angeles. (Although originally and currently known as Ennis House, it was known as the Ennis-Brown House from 1980 until August 2005.)

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No more speed.

And all apologies to Golden Earring because this surely isn’t what they meant…

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The Amazing Spide-Man scrubber thing for the bath.

Early Sunday morning, before aisles at Target are peopled with people, Spider-Man, the web-spinning action hero, serves as an anchor for a body scrub thingy.

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Jacaranda Tree Petals.

Fallen petals from a jacaranda tree on the winding, wet sidewalk that snakes its way through Tustin’s Pine Tree Park, parallel to Bryan Avenue.

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Not in stores.

You can’t get these titles from Best Buy or Tower Records now, but you can find them — absurdly overpriced — on eBay.

Sometimes they’re available at amazon.com. But they’re way-spendy there, too.

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An Eichler-esque beach house.

An Eichler-esque beach house on the boardwalk between Balboa and Newport Beach piers.

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No ifs, ands, or Utt Buildings.

Empty since 1973, the Utt Juice Co. buildings were once home to the city of Tustin, California’s largest employer. There are two buildings: a Victorian Italianate built in 1914, and a neoclassical brick building that was constructed in 1922.

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