Pompey & Circumstance

Alternate Title: Just In Time For The Ides Of March 2010, Let’s Flashback To My Finest Moment As An Acting Student With A Monologue From Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” I was a far better acting student than I ever was an actor. In fact, I’m not quite sure what drove me to study acting, other than …

Happy Birthday Master Aiden

I biked a relatively epic amount Saturday to get to and from the heights of Chatsworth where a celebration was taking place in honor of my grandson Aiden’s first birthday. Happy birthday, little cheese puff-faced dude!

17 Miles Across The Valley

So as part of the 63 miles involved in my cross-city tour Saturday from Silver Lake to the rocky tops of Chatsworth and back in order to be in attendance at my grandson Aiden’s first birthday party, I ventured across the San Fernando Valley via first part of the Chandler Bikeway in Burbank, and then …

Tales From The Car Side

Thanks to this post about failed parking meters I found on Atwater Village Newbie’s blog, this otherwise unrelated piece of parking meter nostalgia fell out of my mental archives so I just thought I’d take us back to the mid-1980s and share it. Back then I worked for a company in Hollywood as a courier …

Making Shroom

As found peeking up through some backyard blades of grass near the hammock stand (click for the bigger picture):

In Which I Confront Today’s Unsafe Lane-Changing Hornblower

You know what the problem is? The problem is that “It Is The Wiser and Better Motorist Who Realizes That Fucking With Me In Any Way Shape Or Form Will Have Its Consequences” is really too big to put on the back of a tee-shirt. And even if it wasn’t, it would get covered up …