One of the benefits of getting out of the house and on the road early to get to an 8 a.m. flu shot appointment is having a few minutes extra to extend my commute along Ballona Creek to Centinela Avenue where I could de-bike, count coots in the water and grab a seat to watch …
Yesterday my fellow LA Metblogs writer Jason Burns posted about a Burbank resident who wrote a column that ran in the Burbank Leader calling for the installation of posted speed limits and the police enforcement of them along the otherwise marvelous Chandler Bikeway because there are just too many overly entitled cyclists making it difficult …
It may not be readily evident, given my frivolous rants about Dodger Fan Douchebags and finally heeding Susan’s call to get my photos from our fantastic Mexico vacation up on Flickr, but these past few days I’ve been pretty beaten up by a combo of things: exhaustion and overload from the longest presidential campaign ever; …
In the World According To Me there are few things more fortuitous than that of a ladybug lighting upon you. Long has it been since I was last landed on by one of these little lovelies. Yesterday morning, I found this one on my forearm as I biked south on Mesmer between Jefferson and Centinela. …
It’s a curse these mobile phones. They enable normally (or at least one can hope) mild-mannered considerate people to become knuckle-dragging mega dopes at the push of a button. A subset of these slathering droolsacks has been proliferating for years, namely those that find themselves with their phones at televised sporting events, wherein they’re in …
Video timelapsification of last night’s “Orange Team” route of Midnight Ridazz Dischordian Ride, at least the first two legs of it: It was a good ride, cut short because unbeknownst to Sean Bonner and I, our Orange Team took off for it’s third leg and we were left behind. We could’ve hustled and caught up, …
Ah the joys of online commerce. I know mistakes happen, but maaaan! Like last night I got home to find my order from nashbar.com had arrived — the one I wrote about a couple days ago that was a compromise to me spending a load of green on a new bike I don’t need. So …