I suppose I should just zip it and rah rah about another Bike To Work Week, but I have my issues with the annual five-day faux fest kicked off yesterday. Sure it increases awareness and all that jazz, and without a doubt it is commendable as a catalyst that gets however many people out of …
Replaying the timelapse vid of last night’s ride home hardly tells the tale. I’m biking up Larchmont approaching Rosewood north of Beverly Boulevard. To the sidewalk on my right I notice a young man and woman jogging and calling out to something in front of them, and about three parked cars ahead is a dog …
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What you’re looking at is the beginnings of nine out of ten sunflower seeds I planted a week ago Sunday. They are actually two varieties. The five in the back are children of a magnificent sunflower grown last year by my friend Jo up near Vacaville who sent me some seeds from it. The seedlings …
As a subscriber to the New York Times, I remember breezing through this article about the Dutch bicycle and fashion a few weeks ago and mostly forgetting about it. But not quite. Something gnawed at me about its pretentiousness and the accompanying spread of fashion-forward pictures of young men astride machines wearing suits and ties …
So yesterday morning’s 37 miler — from Silver Lake down to Watts Towers and back up to Boyle Heights, across the 6th Street Bridge, and down under the bridge to the LA River bed before heading up to the top of downtown an cutting across to MacArthur Park, and coming back past historic Alvarado Terrace …
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Citibank (South Dakota) NA Card Service Center Customer Service PO Box 6500 Sioux Falls, SD 57117-6500 Account No.: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX0117 Dear Customer Service Manager “R.M. Pick,†I am in receipt of your letter dated May 3, 2009, advising me that the credit limit has been reduced on the above-referenced account to $300 due to a decision …
Outside this morning while watering our side garden parched by yesterday’s surprise heatrush, I glanced up at the location of the dove-destroyed sparrow nest I wrote about yesterday, and off to the side I found what I first thought was perhaps a large remnant of that nest, wedged against the waterheater vent pipe that goes …