I step outside the climate-controlled comfort of my office building at 7:30 and blink dumbfounded at the surprise heat. It was like a flash fever, or as if someone left the door to hell open and the devil’s wondering who. Mounting up and and hitting the streets, the schizo winds bumrush from all sides. They …
We have a pair of house sparrows (or maybe it’s different pairs) who just can’t get a break. A couple springs ago, they made what seemed like a good decision to set up their nest in one of the paper lanterns in our backyard (built-in heat source at night, relative security from predators) only to …
As some of you might know I’ve participated in the Los Angeles Marathon every year since 1994 either as a marathon joggawalka, bike tour rider or on three insane occasions: both. Since the marathon’s inception in 1985, it has taken place on the first Sunday in March. This year as we all know that all …
Over at The Eastsider Los Angeles blog, the spotlight has been shined on a residence in Echo Park being sold by a pair of apparently notable house flippers. Reeeeeeally ambitious asking price? $789,000. Number of offers made since it hit the market a couple weeks ago? None. As Susan and I continue to wrestle with …
So I’m westbound on Venice Boulevard this morning. I’ve made the light at Fairfax and once across it I’m cruising up to the next one, which is red. Not the light at Cadillac, but the one before it at the entrance to Kaiser Permanente’s parking complex. I get up behind another cyclist stopped there and …
(Click to enlarge) I found this beauty coming down the Beaudry South trail from my latest ride in my beloved Verdugos this afternoon. It was the second garter that had shot across the trail before me into the protection of the brush. The first one made its escape over a berm, but this one got …