We’ve Got Spirit, Yes We Do…

Typically I don’t really feel the holiday verve until well into December and subsequently don’t even think about busting out the  lights and and busying myself hanging the stuff before December 1. This year having decided to undertake the additional task of draping the twinklies from the second floor dormer for the first time, I …

Thanking Of Me

Among the  variety of people, things and events the L.A. Times gave thanks for in its lead editorial in today’s paper they made sure to appreciate me too: We also thank those who can drive but don’t, who bike and carpool and make good use of their EZ transit passes on two dozen public transit …

Next Best Thing To Being There

Thanks to Illuminate LA’s posting of a complete audio recording of the landmark City Council Transportation Committee’s bike-themed meeting last Friday, I was able to catch up on all that transpired. While it sounds as if forward progress is being made on the whole there was also a share of bureaucratic laterals launched in the …

A Post-Rainstorm Conversation With Buster The Tortoise

As readers may recall I finally made good this summer on a long-delayed plan to build our Russian tortoise Buster a 25-square-foot outdoor pen to liberate her from her unsatisfactory indoor confinement in a 3-square-foot aquarium. Buster’s pretty much been loving the expanded living space ever since… well, at least as much as a grumpy …

The Envelope Please

As expected, I reached my 6,000th mile on my way home last night, entering it roughly in the Melrose Hill vicinity of Western Avenue and Hobart and exiting it on approach to Santa Monica Boulevard on Heliotrope. In the midst of it I stopped at no better place to commemorate the achievement than  where my …