Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The Handwriting On The Wall
Susan’s been pretty good about it, but I haven’t done much in terms of reportage or documentage since the pre-renovation demolition commenced last week — in part because I was somewhat deflated when the house’s equivalent of the famed Al Capone’s vault (ours being a crawlspace section of the bedroom that’s been walled off and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in home economics by Will
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
I Spent The Following Nine Seconds With An Asshat Motorist And Lived To Tell About It
Biking south of 8th Street on La Brea I was “passed and slashed” as I like to call it — aka: cut off or turned in front of — by an inattentive and irresponsible motorist. Below are the nine frames/seconds of the incident captured by my handlebar cam.
But first let me break ‘em down for [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in biking, idiots by Will
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Putting the “I” In Bike
It was way back in August when I first started attempting timelapsifications of my morning and evening bike commutes and uploading them to YouTube. My main motivation was simple: to counter the festering perception that bicycling in Los Angeles is an unsafe practice. So far so good.
Fast forward to a couple days ago when I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, ruminations by Will
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Se7en Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me
The rules:
1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.
I was tagged by Sean Bonner.
1) Valuable Lesson
Though no [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Memes by Will
Monday, January 26th, 2009
The Hills Are Alive
Made good on my Bike Every Day promise to go out and get some dirt yesterday. Susan joined me in venturing out to the Beaudry North trailhead where civilization ends and the Verdugo Mountains begin, and we set out, she on foot and me on wheels to do some exploring. We stayed in contact viz [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in biking, outdoors by Will
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
To Errand Is Human
Things I did yesterday when I finally got my ass up and on my way:
1) Took truck to gas station to put air in the left rear tire, which has had a reeeeeeeaally slow leak for about a year (note to self: I should reeeeeeeaally get that patched).
2) Went to Orange 20 Bikes to pick [...]
No Comments » - Posted in slice of life by Will
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Standing Out In A Crowd
Thanks to my friend Eric Richardson of Blogdowntown and his excellent coverage of the inauguration event held at L.A. Live’s Nokia Plaza Tuesday morning, I now have visual confirmation of my presence in his photo, above.
See me and my bike there? No, over there. In the back — what can I say I got there [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in gatherings, happenings, politics by Will
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
One Year Ago Today
On this date last year was one of the saddest days in my biking life. It was the day The Phoenix died.
The Phoenix was my pride and joy, brought back from wretched rusted abandonment with my own two hands and questionable repair skills to a charmed new colorful life as a single-speeder that really reawakened [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in biking, recollections by Will
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
These Are The People In My Neighborhood
Dear Neighbor Who Drives The Jet Black Chevy Suburban Whose Clackalacka Sound The Engine Makes Means You Either Use Crap Valve-Wrecking Gas Or It’s A Noisy-Ass Diesel-Powered Earth Killer,
I saw you this morning, you turd with appendages. You meatbag with a pulse. You backed your ship out of the driveway across the street, straight into [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in disgraceful, idiots, raves, updated by Will
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Inauguride
I biked downtown this morning to L.A. Live. Grand plans had me getting down there at 6 a.m. for breakfast at the Pantry and then hanging out until Obama gave his first speech as the 44th President of the United States of America.
What actually happened was that I left the house around 8: 15 a.m. [...]
