Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
SkunkCam Is Go!
It started when I was playing fetch with Ranger in the backyard and her attention was diverted to something happening beyond the north fence. Upon investigation I found our cat Jiggy on the other side and he was trying to “play” with what I first thought was a baby opossum. I shoo’d Jiggy [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Double The Irony
I love that the venerable Palms Cycle advertises itself in such a unique way. But the cheap irony of a bike shop being located on Motor Avenue is readily surpassed by the seeming waste of this classic cruiser and its message, located on the no man’s land of a Venice Boulevard median where [...]
No Comments » - Posted in ads, biking by Will
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Old Bones
I haven’t had much oppotunity to dig in the back yard and find much in the way of new old stuff to post about, so any unearthing being done must be credited to Ranger whose excavations around the place are many. Next to one particularly deep hole close to the hammock I found this 1.5 [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Reliquary/Relic Wary: Look What My Archive File Spat Up!
Did you know that back in the day if cyclists in Los Angeles dared to want to bring their bikes aboard any of the MTA’s trains (which back then consisted of the Blue Line, the Green Line and a Red Line that only ran between Union Station and the Wiltern Theater), the MTA wanted to [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in biking, history, updated by Will
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
400 Calories
At the northwest corner of Crescent Heights and Wilshire this morning sat a weathered man holding a weathered piece of written-upon cardboard in one hand and a plastic cup in the other. I don’t remember what the sign said verbatim, but it included the words “Please Help” and gave information that the man was [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in biking, food, happiness, people, slice of life by Will
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Deja Vu All Over Again!
At the end of March I wrote a post detailing a pair of stupid cyclists I encountered one morning on 4th Street. The first one was surly and despite being a slowpoke had no patience for the long red light at Wilton Place, and the second one was overdressed and jumped a four-way stop a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, idiots, rants by Will
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I Hate It When This Happens
Sigh. Picked this hitchhiker up while rounding the corner from Overland onto Venice Boulevard, where it ran itself through the tube within. I gamely attempted to patch the entrance and exit wounds, but it was getting dark and cold and so I finally replaced it with my last new one and got myself over to [...]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Comparitively Speaking
With about a gallon of 87 octane left in my truck’s gas tank, if I’d reeeeeeeally wanted to yesterday I could’ve put off filling her up and then gone ahead and accumulated an additional week’s worth of bike-commuting mileage. But I’d driven to Burbank Sunday morning to help rearrange some furniture for my mom, and [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Frond Farewell
If you’re an angeleno, odds are at some point during your time here you’ve experienced the falling of a palm frond from its tree.
I’d hazard you haven’t ever had the pleasure of being 40 feet away from 17 30 — count ‘em: 17 30! — of them full-sized suckers falling at once. I have. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Before & After: Hammock Time!
Today was too warm and too beautiful and too Saturday not to finally liberate the hammock from its off-season quarters in the basement and re-install it back to its rightful place on the stand situated in the upper corner of the backyard: (click thumbs to enlargify):
Running a, uh… prolonged and required Official Hammock [...]
