When last we spoke of Desiree Horton, the former Channel 5 pilot who blogs at The Adventures of Chopper Chick!, she had requested that fans send Hooters t-shirts to her motel in Texas. They were for a gag she wanted to play on guys in Abilene who mistook her for a bimbo when she first arrived to fly brush fire duty. Anyway, she blogs that the shirts arrived and will be put to use soon. Meanwhile, she posts pictures of herself on the ground there. Since she lives in Chatsworth, and flies here mostly, Horton goes on the growing blogroll over at The Valley Observed.


Monica Almeida has the perspective of a native Angeleno who photographs Los Angeles for an East Coast newspaper: the New York Times.