Re:Cycling — Sepulveda Tunnel Vision
The second time in my life that I biked up and over the Sepulveda Pass was last weekend during my Autocalypse Now Ride. The first time? Waaaay the hell back in 1991. I remember it well because it was a rather epic ride. The woman I was dating at the time had decided to go …
Ranger Fetches!
Ranger At The Dog Park a video by Wildbell on Flickr. We’ve changed up our early morning one-mile walk route from around the blocks to a two-mile Silver Lake Dog Park there-and-back, where Ranger has had the entire place to herself and happily enjoys playing longer-range fetch.
Autocalypse Now Ride
I had the excellent company of Ann, Harold, Robert and Thaddeus, a fabulous foursome of fellow cycling enthusiasts, who showed up at the starting point in Silver Lake to join me on the 47-mile trek that set out about 9:45 a.m. From the left that’s Harold (who did the whole ride on a singlespeed!), me, …
AAAsses
From the indispensable BikinginLA blog comes a call to point an angry finger at the leadership of the Northern and Southern California-based AAAs because of their insistence that Senate Bill 910, which would require drivers in the state to give bicyclists at least three feet of clearance when passing from behind, is a bad idea. …
Touring My Town
On the occasion of my cousin Margaret’s last day in Los Angeles before flying home to Nashville, I picked her up from my mom’s to show her some sites, and we ended up doing more than I expected: Watts Towers Central Avenue Jazz District Central Library Disney Concert Hall Angels Flight Grand Central Market Million …
Poetry In Gridlock
So KPCC’s Sharon McNary sent out an email yesterday soliciting thoughts from the station’s listeners about the upcoming expectedly cataclysmic shutdown of the 405 Freeway this entire weekend, and one her requests was for respondents to write a headline, haiku, or limerick about the impending doom. So I tapped out this tribute to motorista angst: …