Uneven Stevens
Got home to find a voicemail message from an editor at the Times, calling to confirm I was indeed a writer of a recent letter to the editor signed by me and telling me they’re interested in running it some time this week. I’d forgotten all about the letter, being one that I whipped off …
Another 2007 To-Do
On the not-to-distant heels of Franklin Avenue’s walk from one end of Wilshire Boulevard to the other (dowtown to Santa Monica), I’ve decided I’m going to set aside a Saturday or Sunday some time in this coming year to do the same thing with Sunset Boulevard, and finally document this diverse pipeline that courses from Union …
So Far Yet So Close
As the year progressed and rolled with The Phoenix more and more I found myself harboring stronger delusions of posting a 2,000-mile cycling year — my first since 2003. Certainly my involvement with the notorious and fictional IAAL/MAF bike gang and the mileage I accrued from our regular ridings during the summer helped stoke my confidence, but then …
Carroll Avenue Is A Buncha Humbugs
Susan was in the mood for some Christmas decoration. Candy Cane Lane in Woodland Hills was too far. So I suggeted Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, but Susan wasn’t up for that trek either so we wound up hopping nto the truck and making a meandering loop beginning with the above house one block over …
Cinco Cosas Que Usted No Sabe Probablemente Sobre Mi
I wasn’t invited to this meme party but I saw Cybele was and so was Sean too so without explanation or my usually extrapolation I’m chronologically crashing this “Five Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Me” thing: 1) My nickname as a baby pretty much up until I hit double digits was “twig.” 2) Dad? …
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To A “Tee”
Back last summer the CBS2 website put out a call for its visitors to “Show Us Your Tees,” and I obliged by taking a photo of my torso bearing my favorite shirt and in my email included the following background: Attached please find my very favorite T-shirt, which qualifies not only from a local cultural …