Timelapse: Such A Winter’s Day
For me, in order to get it into more heads that a bike can be a practical inter-urban alternative, the rides that need to be recognized aren’t the epic ones so much as the trivial ones — and this is certainly a trivial one: 8.5 miles to Hollywood and back with stops at Amoeba Records, …
Available Light
I was going to try to write some holiday-appropriate words to accompany this animated image of our Christmas tree. But it’s 3:20 on Christmas Eve’s eve morning as I write this and I’ve been up since 2:41 and I’m just not feeling very jolly. I was brought from my sleep because our dog Shadow uncharacteristically …
The World According To Patches
Pretty much her standard operating position when she relaxes on my her desk. I call it the Reclining Mantis.
In Case Something Seems Different
I’ve gone with a slightly different look and layout for the blog, down to a strict two-column format from its previous three. It might look familiar to anyone out there who’s been reading me for a while. This “new” WordPress theme was one I’d used before — right up until the strange day a couple …
Winter Solstice
For about 20 nights, give or take, I’ve been finding excuses not to walk a few blocks west to Vendome Street with my tripod and DSLR camera with the zoom lens so as to point it back across the gap at our seasonally decorated house visible from that distant and different perspective, roughly a sixth …
LA Times: Canceled
I wrote about why I would be canceling my subscription to the Los Angeles Times over at Blogging.la (read it here), but just in case there’s doubt as to whether I walked the walk with my symbolic gesture, I recorded the conversation I had this morning with the customer rep.