I’m not much on absolute favorites. I’m much more a “Top 5” or “Top 10” kind of guy — the sort who always qualifies his appreciation of things, inserting “one of” into anything I’m glowing and crowing about. “That is one of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright residences.” “My 19th birthday? One of the best …
Though I’ve not been officially diagnosed, a couple of physiological situations I’ve been coping with for a good number of years are eosinophilic esophagitis and atrial fibrilation, or EE and AF. I don’t think I’ve blogged about the latter, but certainly I can remember blogging about the joyful day last year when I finally was …
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Evelyn Ruth Billings. I wrote about her demise back when I was editor-in-chief at The Roundup, the student newspaper of Los Angeles Pierce College. From her tragedy came a personal triumph. My op-ed piece went on to take first place in the column writing category at the 1994 statewide …
Shadow and I found each other at Lake Balboa in the Sepulveda Basin on Labor Day of 1994. I was biking around the lake a couple dark months into my recovery from my near-fatal motorcycle accident, which wasn’t going all that well. She was a couple months old and abandoned. I was helpless not to …
It was hastily shot and even more hastily cobbled together, but as you might tell in this 180-degree four-frame panorama there wasn’t a much better vista during yesterday’s CicLAvia than atop the 4th Street Bridge (click to panoramify):
I may have more to say later about yesterday’s marvelous and monumental CicLAvia (or I may not) but in the meantime, here’s a timelapse I made of the 7.5-mile route from Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights coming back to Bicycle Square at the intersection of Heliotrope and Melrose in East Hollywood.
Got an email out of the blue Thursday morning from KNX Radio reporter John Baird wanting to interview me about tomorrow’s CicLAvia. I said sure. So he came over and we stood on the front porch for a few minutes talking about the event. Then I lucked into catching a repeat broadcast of it on …