In learning about another cyclist getting attacked on the Ballona Creek (via Damien Newton on Streetsblog LA), I first “chewed with my mouth closed.” In other words I seethed in silence, digesting the angrifying news without posting a hyperbolic comment in response. Then yesterday after reading the comment of a fellow bike commuter whose response …
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Aha! My mom-away-from-mom (otherwise known as my mother-in-law) Jeanette is quite the crafty one. Not only in the wonderful handmade things she designs and makes (most recently for us a really cool Halloween card), but also in her ability to tag me from her blog to participate in a meme that a fellow blogging craftian …
Way back in another life when I was the theater critic at-large and filing a theater review every Monday for the Pasadena Weekly newspaper, I once found myself at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse seated directly behind one Richard Sylvan Selzer — far more recognizable as Mr. Blackwell, the self-styled arbiter of taste most famously known for …
With the end of the road in sight and on the last remaining steps to the conclusion of our 28-mile walk of Western Avenue Saturday, we were passed by a beautiful thing of the past, prompting Julia to exclaim “We’ve walked so long we’ve traveled back in time!” I only managed a still photo as …
Why yes, now that you mention it, parts of it were. I managed to be not entirely unproductive today. Throughout most of it I’d look at the clock from wherever I was sitting or laying down and approximate our Western Avenue location yesterday. At 10 a.m. we were past the Burger King near MLK Boulevard …
Courtesy my blogpal and 2008 Trivia Bowl teammate Ed Padgett’s blog, I just got my first sense of what tonight’s event at KABC studios is going to be like, via this Youtube post from 2006’s bowl: All I gotta say is what the hell did I get myself into?
On a pretty good level I operate by the rule of never writing something I wouldn’t be willing to say in public. Be it here or in a comment on another’s blog, I try always to moderate my mental excretions. So when in response to this LA Metblogs post yesterday by Jason Burns about the …