A couple days ago I blogged about a treasured jazz discovery and all the old-school analog work I had to do to go about acquiring it. I closed the post with an adieu about digitizing an album of Civil War music I listened to regularly in my youth. I thought it had been loooong-lost, but …
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It was during the Minnesota/New Orleans NFC championship game a couple weeks ago that I looked up at our livingroom’s built-in shelves and saw a long-standing decorative touch of Susan’s that made me realize not only who was going to win that game, but who was going to win the big one they’ll be playing …
What a difference a couple decades makes. Nowadays if I hear a song on the radio, I simply open up my Shazam app on my iPhone point it in the direction of the noise and in a few seconds … well, SHAZAM I have the artist, the track title, and various links to listen and/or …
A front-page story in today’s LA Times details the mysterious struggles brown pelicans up and down the coast are having to survive. Yesterday, biking to work in the morning along Ballona Creek between Overland and Sepulveda I found heartbreaking proof of that: I stood where I was looking for movement, but there was none. Had …
Lately I’ve been thinking about the general marginalization and rejection of cycling in Los Angeles and something dawned on me that may be sociological or profound. Or both. Or neither. I realized — while biking, of course — that here in this city, content isn’t nearly the king that the container is. Instead of our …
Stopped on Redondo Boulevard waiting for the green to continue south across Pico Boulevard on my way to Venice Boulevard on my way to work this morning, there I was just minding my own business when came an “Excuse me?” from the woman driving the vehicle that pulled beside me on my left that got …
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The What:Â The 8 Presidents Ride The When: Saturday, February 13; Gathers at 10 a.m., departs at 10:30. The Where: Meet at Wilshire and Hoover by the tennis courts on the south side of Wilshire across from Lafayette Park. The Where We Going: About 30 miles, pretty flat; the route is mapped here. Ride ends …