Last week the news that appropriately outraged the bike-i-verse was the law on Santa Monica’s books discovered by cyclist extraordinario Gary Kavanaugh in which the penalty for riding an unlicensed bicycle in that seaside city is a fine of up to $1,000 fine and potentially 6 months in jail. Harsh, much? Yep, considering the state …
One of the truly endearing things about the biking I do is that the locations of many of the milestones I reach are so unsung. In 2007 I began my 3,000th mile traveling next to Lindberg Park tucked into a quiet little residential enclave of Culver City. Last year, and perhaps most appropriately, my 6,000th …
In lieu of something substantive — which is a rare thing anyway — I offer up these disparate videos, the first captured on the bike ride home yesterday evening and the second this morning on my desktop: Ballona Creek Rush Hour Jiggy Says Good Morning
I’ve been an L.A. City golf course reservationista pretty much for as long as I’ve been a bad golfer, which takes us on a trip via the wayback wagon to 2002. In all that time, the city-issued cards have been pretty much the ugliest most utilitarian things I’ve ever carried in my wallet, compounded hilariously …
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I may sigh in general fatigue knowing there’s no winning this war on ignorance, but that doesn’t mean I drop my armor and surrender from defending the true Eastside as well as my part of town against those blythe hoards ever-intent on conveniently jumping on the bandwagon with those who’ve come before them to dismissively …
Because of twits like this who instead of respecting cherished landmarks like Echo Park’s “Lady of the Lake,” they have to climb up and spread their ass cheeks on it. UPDATE: The Eastsider L.A. blog is reporting on vandalism to the eyes of the statue from “sometime last week.” Coincidentally this photo’s Flickr page lists …
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