Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Double Snakebites & A Thorn
Well after a quiet start to these first few weeks of 2010, I made up for lost flats last night. Got three — count ‘em: three! — on the ride home from work. Silly me: Earlier in the day I’d actually dared to consider that I might get through the first month of the new [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking, updated by Will
Friday, January 29th, 2010
The Streets Are Full Of Four-Wheeled Francis Soyers
Coming home east along Venice Boulevard I spotted a black coupe a half block up poking out from a side street fully across the bike lane waiting for motor traffic to clear so the driver could make a right. I slowed hoping he’d get his chance but the flow of cars was too thick and [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, idiots by Will
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Game Over
When I found out Modern Warfare 2 was available for the Playstation3 platform I wasted no time getting a copy… that I then let sit around unplayed for more than a month.
Why? Well, part of it was because I knew it was the kind of game that I could end up playing for hours and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Games, gadgets, ramblings by Will
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Twenty-Four Years Ago This Morning
I heard the news via an unlikely source on January 28, 1986. I was in my Mazda GLC going from my apartment in Van Nuys to my job in the small business complex behind the gas station Barham Boulevard deadends into in the Cahuenga Pass. I was traveling on the gridlocked southbound 170 Freeway approaching [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in flashback, history, news, radio, recollections by Will
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
My Camera Does Not Discriminate
It is in the interest of fairness and balance that I post these two slow-mo clips from this morning’s ride. Submitted for your perusal, the following bits of video are a demonstration not only that I can recognize and applaud the good behavior I encounter on the road, but also that I’m not afraid to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
And That’s All I Have To Say About That
Best way to honor JD Salinger is to pay no attention to his demise. He would’ve wanted it that way.
No Comments » - Posted in books, celebrity by Will
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Ballona Creek Under Overland 7:10 p.m.
(click for the bigger picture)
The long afternoon’s worth of rain had passed before nightfall, and when I left work near 7 p.m. I was eager to see what increase there might be to Ballona Creek’s water level. The good news is it wasn’t enough to warrant the locking of the bikeway entrance gates. The bad [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in recollections, seasonal, weather by Will
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
SXSE & NXNE
Nah, that headline ain’t some sorta code. Just the general compass points I was facing when I snapped the following images in the vicinity of Dante’s View while on our way up to the top of Mt. Hollywood Saturday morning.
What I’m taken most with is the fact that though the two shots were taken literally [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in hiking, los angeles, photography by Will
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The Precious Pitter Patter Of “Pata Pata”
Honda has a cool TV ad campaign out for its new Crosstour vehicle. A couple of the spots feature fetching animation backgrounded by great songs. One is a jazztastic version of “Fever”, and the other I immediately recognized when I first heard it this weekend but couldn’t identify, and I certainly wouldn’t’ve known it by [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in music by Will
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Portrait Of What I’m Sure Is An Otherwise Lovely and Considerate Elderly Couple Rolling A Stop Sign In Their Car As The Husband Waves At Me In Surprise After The Wife Yells At Him To Quit Driving Like An Idiot And Instead Make Some Effort To Obey Traffic Laws And Share The Road
Alternate Title: A Less-Attentive And Intuitive Cyclist Would Have Become A Momentary Hood Ornament
Here’s the slow-mo video of the slow-speed encounter beginning when I proceed from my stop on 4th Street a couple blocks east of Western Avenue as the northbound vehicle crosses the intersection (worth noting in that first frame below how the southbound [...]
