A Bond Finally broken

During our final evening at the Anantara Resort about 55 miles north of Chiang Rai,  Thailand, on March 25 last year, on a hilltop overlooking the Mekong River and beyond it the countries of Laos and Myanmar in the area known as the fabled Golden Triangle, Susan and I were among our group of travelers …

Timelapse: Watts Happening Ride 2012

The 2012 edition of my Watts Happening Ride took place this past picture-perfect Saturday, and it was my complete pleasure to share the following landmark people, places and events I’ve discovered there with the 28 cyclists who joined me: The last residence of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton The childhood home of Nobel Prize Winner …

Silver Lake Stormwatch: February 15

January 23 was the date of our last significant rainfall, though in the past week or so there had been a couple of extremely under-achieving systems that skirted Los Angeles, neither of which delivered unto our Silver Lake backyard anything in the way of measurable wetness. Literally: when I checked both times there wasn’t enough …

Mystery Botany Theater

A fellow by the name of Joshua Siskin who writes a great greenery column for the Daily News solved a couple plant mysteries of mine last year. I accidentally stumbled upon an article of his last May detailing bear’s breeches (Acanthus mollis), which happens to grow in our front yard and which I’d spent years …

Wall Ball With Ranger

Ranger and I adjourned to the backyard this afternoon to the Wall Ball Court (really it’s just the the walkway directly behind the house), and before commencing play I decided to strap my GoPro cam to me using its chest harness and also set up a second camera behind me to capture all the action from …

The Man Who Lived On His Bike

Found via the Change Your Life. Ride A Bike! blog, I share with you this amazing work by  Gillaume Blanchet