Last Night & This Morning

In lieu of something substantive — which is a rare thing anyway — I offer up these disparate videos, the first captured on the bike ride home yesterday evening and the second this morning on my desktop: Ballona Creek Rush Hour Jiggy Says Good Morning

The New Golf Card’s Here! The New Golf Card’s Here!

I’ve been an L.A. City golf course reservationista pretty much for as long as I’ve been a bad golfer, which takes us on a trip via the wayback wagon to 2002. In all that time, the city-issued cards have been pretty much the ugliest most utilitarian things I’ve ever carried in my wallet, compounded hilariously …

Yet Another Flubber Bullet Fired In The Never-Ending Battle over L.A.’s Fictitious “Eastside”

I may sigh in general fatigue knowing there’s no winning this war on ignorance, but that doesn’t mean I drop my armor and surrender from defending the true Eastside as well as my part of town against those blythe hoards ever-intent on conveniently jumping on the bandwagon with those who’ve come before them to dismissively …

This Is Why I Don’t Go On Many Group Night Rides Anymore

Because of twits like this who instead of respecting cherished landmarks like Echo Park’s “Lady of the Lake,” they have to climb up and spread their ass cheeks on it. UPDATE: The Eastsider L.A. blog is reporting on vandalism to the eyes of the statue from “sometime last week.” Coincidentally this photo’s Flickr page lists …

The Dude Arrives

Last March at Disney Concert Hall I considered it a once-in-my-lifetime event to hear my favorite symphony, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” played live. After all, I’d been waiting for that since I was 12. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, in attendance with my wife and mother among 18,000 others in the capacity crowd, under a …

I Made Good

A couple months ago I finally did something I’d been meaning to do for a while: subscribe to Good magazine. And when my first issue arrived titled “The Water Issue,” I dove into it, eating it up like the delectable treat it was. One of the articles headlined “Disobey Your Thirst” featured an interview with …