Jim Winstead
@jimwinstead.fyi
A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles.
These river rock things completely baffle me. Do they serve some alleged purpose? Did someone’s cousin have a surplus of river rocks they needed to unload?
December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
These river rock things completely baffle me. Do they serve some alleged purpose? Did someone’s cousin have a surplus of river rocks they needed to unload?
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I was captivated by Salomón Huerta’s enigmatic still lifes of food and guns at Marc Selwyn. 🍊 The story behind them is wild. 🍊 And it’s the subject of this week’s Art Insider for @kcrw.com 🍊 Do not miss.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I was captivated by Salomón Huerta’s enigmatic still lifes of food and guns at Marc Selwyn. 🍊 The story behind them is wild. 🍊 And it’s the subject of this week’s Art Insider for @kcrw.com 🍊 Do not miss.
email.kcrw.com/salomon-huer...
email.kcrw.com/salomon-huer...
We walk by the mural on Broadway all the time and I wondered how Chaka got up there to tag it. He used to buy spray paint from our store. He came in with a binder of spray-painted sign work he was doing. Glad to see him get recognition like this.
'Dodgers Rule': Graffiti artist Chaka and others draw inspiration — and murals — from World Series champs
'Dodgers Rule': Graffiti artist Chaka and others draw inspiration — and murals — from World Series champs
Legendary graffiti artist Chaka and Nike teamed for a massive mural project celebrating the Dodgers' repeat titles. You can find them, along with others, on a new online map that documents them.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
We walk by the mural on Broadway all the time and I wondered how Chaka got up there to tag it. He used to buy spray paint from our store. He came in with a binder of spray-painted sign work he was doing. Glad to see him get recognition like this.
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It looks like the lucky boxers worn by Yoshihiro Sonoda, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season, have worked again as the Dodgers take Game 2 of the World Series.
Commentary: Yamamoto’s interpreter almost quit after 2 days. Now he's hoping his underwear can help in World Series
Yoshihiro Sonoda has been Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season. Sonoda's superstitions when Yamamoto pitches are only part of the story.
www.latimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It looks like the lucky boxers worn by Yoshihiro Sonoda, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season, have worked again as the Dodgers take Game 2 of the World Series.
You do have to kind of admire the chutzpah of opening a “museum” with an exhibit of your own work called an “Infinity Room” across the street from the Broad with one of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms on permanent exhibit.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
You do have to kind of admire the chutzpah of opening a “museum” with an exhibit of your own work called an “Infinity Room” across the street from the Broad with one of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms on permanent exhibit.
What makes this a “museum” and not a gallery?
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What makes this a “museum” and not a gallery?
Rode past this on the bus yesterday and wondered what the over/under was on it ever actually opening.
Check out a first look inside L.A.'s trippy museum of AI arts — and its opening date
Check out a first look inside L.A.'s trippy museum of AI arts — and its opening date
Refik Anadol is poised to open Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, at the Grand L.A. complex in downtown L.A. this spring. Here's a first look at some of the imagery.
www.latimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rode past this on the bus yesterday and wondered what the over/under was on it ever actually opening.
Automatic Noodle is a very good novella. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/10/12/automatic_noodle
October 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Automatic Noodle is a very good novella. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/10/12/automatic_noodle
I’m late to becoming a Dodgers fan, but if a theme for me this year has been embracing Los Angeles, it has been an important part of that. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/27/go_dodgers_
September 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’m late to becoming a Dodgers fan, but if a theme for me this year has been embracing Los Angeles, it has been an important part of that. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/27/go_dodgers_
It wasn't the Rosslyn Lofts, it was the Rosslyn Hotel (the former annex) on the other side of 5th St.
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It wasn't the Rosslyn Lofts, it was the Rosslyn Hotel (the former annex) on the other side of 5th St.
Took a picture a few months ago, went to a night market last night, and let the two collide in thoughts about Chinatown in Los Angeles. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/chinatown,_at_night
September 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Took a picture a few months ago, went to a night market last night, and let the two collide in thoughts about Chinatown in Los Angeles. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/chinatown,_at_night
I finished another book, finally. (A few weeks ago, actually.) http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/the_martian_contingency
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I finished another book, finally. (A few weeks ago, actually.) http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/the_martian_contingency
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Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
He was delivering strawberries in L.A. when Border Patrol stopped him. 'The wrong place at the wrong time'
Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended u...
www.latimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.
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How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended up caught in the middle.
www.latimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Western Exterminators Cricket Stadium
August 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Western Exterminators Cricket Stadium
Zankou Chicken Target Shooting Hall
August 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Zankou Chicken Target Shooting Hall
in-N-Out Diving Pavilion
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
in-N-Out Diving Pavilion
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I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...
August 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
Resnick is also a major donor to the anti-recall campaign fund for @karenbassla.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/california/n...
How a fizzled recall attempt actually helped Mayor Karen Bass
During a tenuous moment for Bass, the recall threat helped her raise far more money than she would have otherwise been able to collect.
www.latimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Resnick is also a major donor to the anti-recall campaign fund for @karenbassla.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/california/n...
This week I finally figured out how to do something in #Django that had frustrated me before. I am still fighting my way through discovering how to compose things out of Django's constituent parts. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/07/26/using_autocompleteselect_in_a_django_admin_form
July 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This week I finally figured out how to do something in #Django that had frustrated me before. I am still fighting my way through discovering how to compose things out of Django's constituent parts. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/07/26/using_autocompleteselect_in_a_django_admin_form
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Andre the Giant has a posse.
July 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Andre the Giant has a posse.