Not sure if you were playing along, but last Thursday I decided to make a bit of a guessing game over on L.A. Metblogs out a half-gallon glass jug full of coins collected over the years that I’d decided to take to the nearest Coinstar kiosk this weekend. With readers’ answers ranging from $12 – …
For the 16th consecutive time — albeit with increased solemnity given the horrors happening in Haiti — it’s that day of year when I realize this is the anniversary of the Northridge Quake, and dutifully trot out the link to my 2004 recollection of what a nightmare it was: https://www.wildbell.com/all-fall-down-january-17-1994
If you’re scratching your head wondering what/where the hell “War Drobe” and “Spar Oom” are than you need to book passage for your inner child on the good ship C.S. Lewis and get yourself over to Narnia, as mythical a land to us as ours is to the misinterpreting fauns who inhabit it. I merely …
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Haiti’s got me dwelling and waking up. The quake, it’s terrifying devastation and its chaotic aftermath have all served to show me how ill-equipped our household is and will be when an epic disaster strikes Los Angeles. When. Not if. Sure, we’ve got emergency food/supply backpacks in each of our cars. Plus there’s an emergency …
So I’m on 4th Street this morning, dutifully waiting for the green at Wilton like the conscientious and grown-up cyclist I am — a green that is always ooooh so slow to arrive. Finally, as if a gift from gawd the flashing red hand appears, and the countdown commences until I am morally and legally …
It’s not actually this visible at night. This is an 8-second exposure of the creek and bikeway looking downstream near the Duquesne overpass in Culver City. Nevermind after dark, some consider biking along Ballona Creek during the daytime a risk simply not worth taking. As recently as last month there was a report of the …
Pop Quiz Hotshot: You’re on a two-laner heading through a residential area deep in the westside of Los Angeles. As you can see from the first frame in the clip below directly ahead of you are parked cars on your right, there’s a speed hump, and for good measure you’ve got that trash truck parked …