As one of them perportedully perfeshunal editor types, I’m at risk of being on the receiving end of a wiiiiide variety of press releases — most of them unrelated to my publication. Some of them are not only unrelated but flat-out kooky. Case in point, this one just landed in my inbox and I’m helpless …
Click image for the bigger picture Next in my occasional trippings down memory lane through the Los Angeles Public Library’s digital archives, I share with you this blast from the past. Undated, but if the visible vehicles are any indication probably taken somewhere around the late 1920s to early ’30s, we find Carpenter’s Drive-In that …
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During one of the many football games I watched this weekend, a Chik Fil-A commercial came on and I immediately recognized several downtown locations where it was filmed — including this process-shot two-fer at the end that I paused and snapped (click to enlarge): See, this scene doesn’t actually exist in nature. The fire station …
Since Susan and I took that 4,500-mile Western U.S. road trip in the summer of 2006 there’s one thing I kick myself for not doing: recording a train as it came through Troy, Montana, where Susan’s grandma lives, and where we spent July 4. There was something super awesome in the horn blasts that registered …
I watched the first two quarters increasingly anxious. The Razorbacks took a 20-7 lead into halftime and it seemed the momentum was aaaaaall theirs — especially when the Tide began the third quarter with a punt following its first possession. But something happened, and I don’t know what exactly. Bama’s defense, something of a sieve …
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In August I passed — without note — the fifth anniversary of the wheel-building class I took at the Bicycle Kitchen, an event which proved to be the catalyst that got me to create my first single-speed road bike, dubbed The Phoenix. I mention that not just because I’ve been riding one-gears since 2005, but …