The Hitcher

  I mark this into evidence as Exhibit No. 4265 why one should always have a camera handy. Don’t know when this fella landed on me or how long he hitched a ride on my pants leg but I noticed him (and snapped this macro) while stopped at Crescent Heights and Sixth and he didn’t …

Complaint No. 14714

Via the LADOT website I filed this complaint after almost being smushed by the impatient and reckless driver of Dash Bus No. 99058, between it and parked cars on Fountain Avenue last evening: I am a commuter bicyclist and was riding home eastbound on Fountain Avenue yesterday (May 21) evening. Having crossed Highland Avenue at …

One Big Family

Yeah this is the second time I’ve posted about this spider and her recently hatched brood, but sometimes the most wonderous and amazing things bear repeating (click to triplify): Making up for a lack of scale, momma spider’s no bigger than a pencil eraser and her surrounding babies are literally a bunch of eight-legged punctuation …

This Is Why I Hate: Trucks

Also called: How Not To Park Your Big-Ass Rig In The Bike Lane You Long-Haul Bastard Venice Boulevard. Monday Afternoon. Note the red blocks indicating the parking dyslexia of this 18-wheeler’s operator. It’s the other way around, bonehead! View the vidclip here.

Double Cheese Burger

Oh. My. Gawd. It was awesome. And yes, I ate the whoooooooole thing. Flickr set here.

A Charlotte Of Our Own

Since I first saw her more than a month ago on the molding above the front door, I’ve been keeping an eye on the tiny spider and  her pellet-sized egg sac. This morning I was treated to a double bonus: the babies are emerging and momma snared a meal (click to triplify):  

I Adore It When A Series Of Unrelated Factors Coalesce So Serendipiticiously

So last Tuesday I went to the 5th Annual Blessing of the Bikes at Good Samaritan Hospital and among the shwag I accumulated was a 15%-discount coupon for REI. In the ensuing days since my bike was blessed the coupon has been sitting on my desk, having survived several attempts to discard it because I …