Susan and I are getting ready this morning to head off with my mom to Yosemite for what we’re anticipating will be a most breathtaking and soulful Christmas adventure. Here’s hoping your holidays are everything you want them to be. PS. If the embed above of our tree isn’t working, here she is on another …
This past week or so I’ve been testing out a pair of sunglasses that have a built-in video camera. Pretty low-rent James Bond type stuff. The 320-x240 footage leaves lots to be desired and so does the audio — all the worse to low-quality immortalize a Venice Boulevard incident this morning on my bike commute …
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For the little driving I do compared to my biking, call me a creature of habit: I still renew my AAA membership without fail. It’s a tradition that goes back more than a quarter of a century, but one that has become increasingly irksome to me. One of the “perks” of membership is the subscription …
As of this evening there are six more bike commute days available to me in 2009 out of the nine that remain (three of those I’ll be on vacation in Yosemite with Susan and my mom. Yeah: ohgeedarn.). Should the weather and my health cooperate on those six final weekdays, I will close out the …
Just so it’s clear: When biking at night I don’t care whether it’s across a cowtown or a cityscape, there is no such thing as enough lights. One can never have too many. Period. Sure, the fixie punx loitering the banks of Ballona Creek might chortle at the sight of me nerded out like an …
It was late 1986. I worked as a courier for a company that obtained travel visas for clients. I attended L.A. Valley College part time. I drove a Mazda GLC hatchback. “GLC stood for “Great Little Car.” I was 22. I was living in my first apartment. A second-floor single in Van Nuys. On Fulton …
It doesn’t help when I don’t read the Sunday paper or turn on the TV beyond an episode of “Nip/Tuck.” I’m just now at this late date finding out that Alabama running back Mark Ingram won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night, becoming the first Crimson Tide player in the history of the storied program to …