The Hottest Tix In Town

Nevermind their location is way in the up ‘n back and all the way over to the left, three of the coveted admissions for the “Bienvenido Gustavo!” event at the Hollywood Bowl October 3  just came in the mail yesterday! Thanks to fellow Silver Laker and LA Metblogs contributor Mykal Burns for dropping the super …

Guess I’ll Be Hitting The Dirt This Weekend

The soap opera with my bikes is this: Le Noir has been fully dismantled and the frame is being shipped today to its manufacturer’s headquarters in Florida to be replaced. Seeing as the 8-year-old bottom bracket of Old Yeller (my back-up Giant OCR3 roadbike that I’ve been riding since Le Noir’s retirement) was shot and …

This Is Going To Be The Most Awesome Thanksgiving Ever

So what if we’re still a few months out. Susan and I are planning what will be a pretty different Thanksgiving trip this year. We’re going to Death Valley, centered not only around the national holiday, but also around what’s been a cycling trek of mine almost 8 years in the postponing. My first visit …

Sunflower Timelapse

(click here to view the timelapse file) Well I thought all was fine and dandy like cotton candy with the cam and computer, when I powered everything down at 7 a.m. this morning. But instead of some 20 hours of timelapse footage, unbeknownst to me the set-up crapped out after only 2.5 hours — which …