Behold: the classic snakebite flat. I got it biking home Tuesday night. Bonus points that it was raining at the time. More bonus points that the rain was nothing much more than a steady shfitz, the kind that doesn’t drench and cleanse the city so much as it loosens the embedded roadway oils and grit, …
Well, I’m back home in L.A. and that rhymes with yay! I’m still getting re-settled while avoiding a laundry list of things to do — one of which is laundry. So in the meantime, allow me to share with you this outrageous flyer found upon a return visit to Dealey Plaza on my last day …
So I got on a plane yesterday morning and flew to Dallas for a trade show I have to work pretty much nonstop until Saturday when I come home. At my first opportunity, which proved to be at 10:30 p.m. last night, instead of heading back to my hotel after a pre-convention event at the …
I can remember the moment I first incurred debt crystal clearly. It was in the old The Broadway store in Sherman Oaks Fashion Square. It was April. It was 1985. I was 20 years old. It was a pair of sunglasses I didn’t need, but the lenses featured the latest in “blue blocker” technology that …
For the past week or so, I’ve caught fleeting glimpses of it. Always on the move and quickly so, the hardworking white-lined sphinx moth is in its seasonal moment, and this one seems to find the flowers around our yard to be a good source of nectar. During the day the sphinx moth wastes little …
One of my favorite diversionary iPhone apps is a little number called Bloom from Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers that allows users to generate ambient musical compositions by tapping out notes on the iPhone’s screen that then get replayed in a slowly fading loop that you can add on to pretty much for infinity. In …
In geeky honor of last night’s sheduled Earth Hour event, Susan and I went overboard. We didn’t just turn out the lights sweet darling, we went all the way in flipping all the fuses and enjoying a self-imposed black out for an hour Saturday night. It was a terrifically serene scenario that of course made …