Rainy Day Ride Redux

After Bike Week LA’s wet Blessing of the Bikes event on Tuesday, Wednesday morning was equally soggy. A late start prevented me from getting to Union Station in time for the scheduled downtown group bike ride, so I ended up doing my own down to Staples Center and back and heading to Lincoln Park and …

Timelapse: Rainy Day Ride

On the second day of Bike Week Los Angeles, the weather proved noncooperative. But the precipitation was faaaar from enough to keep me from attending the annual Blessing of the Bikes at Good Samaritan Hospital and then afterward meandering exploratorally back up to my neighborhood, where I then took the time to document a large …

Those Were The Daze

What a carefree world it once was, when you could lay the flailing baby in a basinet placed unsecured in the back of the family station wagon and ensure its complete and total highway turnpike safety simple by making the right tire choice (click it for the bigger picture): Saturday Review, July 29, 1961

August 21, 1944

So my cousin Margaret is coming out to visit my mom later this month and to prepare I helped my mom clear out some boxes of stuff she’s been storing in the unused spare bedroom of her apartment. One such box happened to contain, a veritable treasure trove… at least to me. Consisting of issues …

These Old Darts

A set of darts, given to me when I was 12 years old by the dart-loving father of childhood dart-loving friends Casey and Brady Riggs, has sat unthrown for almost 35 years, until today when I finally hung a dart board outside the backdoor that I bought a few months ago and decided to commemorate …