When I think back upon my vaaaast array of employments, my favorites have involved me being outside. Be it paperboy for the Herald Examiner in Hollywood (or later during high school when my mom was that paper’s Echo Park/Silver Lake/Los Feliz distributor) or a foot messenger walking a beat in Century City (even though it …
I deviated the route slightly this morning, taking Vermont all the way down to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which I stayed on across to Leimert Park. At MLK I rolled to a stop before the red light at Normandie and from the sidewalk behind me at my four o’clock walked a petite woman perhaps somewhere …
It’s being reported that astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that they believe may be potentially habitable with “earth-like temperatures” although the red dwarf it closely orbits is smaller and dimmer and not as hot as our sun. But… “The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic …
So at 838 year-to-date miles (after I get home tonight) and not even a quarter into the year I’m waaaaaaaaaay ahead where I need to be to reach my biking goal of 2,007 miles by the end of 2007. Far more saner or at least less-obsessed cyclists would let off the throttle and relaaaaaax. Me? I’ve …
Susan and I are back from our trip to Orange County where we had lunch at the dim sum palace known as Sea Food Paradise in Westminster, at the entrance of which I found this concrete truth: Â And inside I had plenty of this: Â I had incorrectly called the above “butter encrusted shrimp” in the …
Couldn’t resist posting this. On our way up to the reservoir meadow event yesterday we passed under a bottle brush tree on Silver Lake Boulevard and this wonderful hummingbird obliged me taking forever to get my camera and long lens together by keeping busy until I could capture it (click to enlarge): Â
In just a short bit, my baby and I are going to venture south of the L.A. County Line into Orange County to go see my buddy Billy’s mountain biking documentary Klunkerz on tap this 3:30 p.m. at the Newport Beach Film Festival. As such I suggested to Susan we lunch at the magnificent Sea …