Last March at Disney Concert Hall I considered it a once-in-my-lifetime event to hear my favorite symphony, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” played live. After all, I’d been waiting for that since I was 12. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, in attendance with my wife and mother among 18,000 others in the capacity crowd, under a …
A couple months ago I finally did something I’d been meaning to do for a while: subscribe to Good magazine. And when my first issue arrived titled “The Water Issue,” I dove into it, eating it up like the delectable treat it was. One of the articles headlined “Disobey Your Thirst” featured an interview with …
I’ve long had it with Audi. Like most cliché-loving car companies that can’t help but sell the sizzle for the steak they hypervaunt their cars to be magical life-changing devices full of sexy. In the past Audi’s claimed their product line can “reawaken one’s long-lost love of driving.” Really Audi? Is that the best you …
Yesterday in the midst of my recollections of right-hooking drivers, I made mention of a couple instances where I was pedaling and from out of nowhere a pretty violent slippage and thunk of the bike’s drivetrain would occur. What I failed to mention was that the drivetrain was in its second day of use. Over …
To Live & Ride In L.A. from TRAFIK on Vimeo Just found this clip on midnightridazz.com, and as I was watching it unspool way too quickly I kept thinking “Awesome!” and “I wish this were longer — like feature length.” Then at the end my prayers were answered when the screen read: “Coming 2010.” While …
Weird day riding in today — and by riding I mean: Participating In An Ongoing Civic Study Of The City’s Capacity For Assholes. Not only did I have to deal with the bike’s drivetrain emitting phantom thunks whose source I couldn’t discern, but in addition I got right-hooked thrice by passing sedans. I haven’t been …
For those of you who might be keeping an occasional eye on that little bike mileage tally box to the right, you’ll notice I’ve surpassed the 5,000-mile mark in my annual bike ridings, both commuter and recreational. I should be all happy about that, but somewhat frustratingly I’ve actually biked less mileage than I’d accumulated …