I Made Huffington Post

My friend and fellow LA Metblogger David Markland, clued me in to the news that my little timelapse vid got picked up by Huffington Post, and even played on the front page: The following images (clickably biggable) allowed me to practice my Giant Arrow Pointing To My Name skills: Front Page: Inside:

Gimme A Sign!

The buzz on the blogs is that the Hollywood Sign is soon scheduled to undergo an authorized transformation of some sort. I’m fuzzy on the details of the metamorphosis but I believe it has something to do with raising money to publically procur the parcel of land near to it that’s been for sale some …

Sixty Minutes In The Life Of Death

There is something about rampaging unstoppable wildfires and the literal and figurative pall they cast that both agitates and depresses me to marked degrees. It’s like such disasters create an internal tug-of-war wherein I want to got to irrational extremes — on one end I want to seek out destroy anyone even remotely resembling a …

Thanking Of Me

Among the  variety of people, things and events the L.A. Times gave thanks for in its lead editorial in today’s paper they made sure to appreciate me too: We also thank those who can drive but don’t, who bike and carpool and make good use of their EZ transit passes on two dozen public transit …

More On Mountain Lions

My friend and fellow-L.A. Metblogs contributer Frazgo posted up news yesterday about an animal attack in Monrovia in which a bicyclist was reportedly aggressively chased by a pair of coyotes near a city park and bitten. Fraz included news of the mountain lion killing last week that triggered my first post on the subject and …