With the end of the road in sight and on the last remaining steps to the conclusion of our 28-mile walk of Western Avenue Saturday, we were passed by a beautiful thing of the past, prompting Julia to exclaim “We’ve walked so long we’ve traveled back in time!” I only managed a still photo as …
Why yes, now that you mention it, parts of it were. I managed to be not entirely unproductive today. Throughout most of it I’d look at the clock from wherever I was sitting or laying down and approximate our Western Avenue location yesterday. At 10 a.m. we were past the Burger King near MLK Boulevard …
Courtesy my blogpal and 2008 Trivia Bowl teammate Ed Padgett’s blog, I just got my first sense of what tonight’s event at KABC studios is going to be like, via this Youtube post from 2006’s bowl: All I gotta say is what the hell did I get myself into?
On a pretty good level I operate by the rule of never writing something I wouldn’t be willing to say in public. Be it here or in a comment on another’s blog, I try always to moderate my mental excretions. So when in response to this LA Metblogs post yesterday by Jason Burns about the …
One of the benefits of getting out of the house and on the road early to get to an 8 a.m. flu shot appointment is having a few minutes extra to extend my commute along Ballona Creek to Centinela Avenue where I could de-bike, count coots in the water and grab a seat to watch …
Yesterday my fellow LA Metblogs writer Jason Burns posted about a Burbank resident who wrote a column that ran in the Burbank Leader calling for the installation of posted speed limits and the police enforcement of them along the otherwise marvelous Chandler Bikeway because there are just too many overly entitled cyclists making it difficult …
It may not be readily evident, given my frivolous rants about Dodger Fan Douchebags and finally heeding Susan’s call to get my photos from our fantastic Mexico vacation up on Flickr, but these past few days I’ve been pretty beaten up by a combo of things: exhaustion and overload from the longest presidential campaign ever; …