Whatcha Doin’ Every Saturday Next Month?
I’m gonna be bicycling. Join me? Spokecard art above, more info over here.
Who Enforces The Enforcers?
There was supposed to be rain today but being Earth Day, I put away my lazy/don’t wanna get wet excuses and got on my bike for the ride to work. As I discovered on the way in it must have also been Block The Bike Lane Day as demonstrated by a variety of motorists, including …
In Which I Coin A New Term: Passtard
From an otherwise awesome 20-mile early Saturday morning bike ride while in San Diego last week, I was reminded for the 26,235th time that there are right and wrong ways to pass a bicyclist. In this case, both of the following examples of good and evil occured near the end of my ride on 6th …
Fifteen Years Ago
Today marks the anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The day after that horror, as the theater critic for the Pasadena Weekly I couldn’t help but draw parallels and distinctions between such a fresh hell and the subject matter of the play I covered, whose review, follows: Taking ‘Heart’ Political …
In Which I Manage To Confront & Defeat Best Buy’s 15% Restocking Fee Monster
Last Sunday (April 11) I went to the local Apple store in need of a laptop only to find them sold out of both the 13″ MacBook ($999) and MacBook Pro ($1199) models. I had initially wanted just the MacBook but the MackBook Pro had its advantages despite the $200 higher price tag. Looking around …
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And I Random, I Random So Far Away
Because I haven’t posted in a couple days, here’s a random photo from October in San Diego, where I’ll be these next three days… … and a random circuitous School Daze story from some of the places I was a substantially longer time ago… Early into fifth grade, I left Beverly Hills for Hollywood. One …
And The Great Backyard Lizard Count Continues…
… in the front yard. Specifically with alligator lizard No. 2 found sunning itself Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the garage door — magnificent even with just the replacement stub of the lost tail it had been born with (click for the bigger picture): It seemed pretty at ease and habituated, even …