Robert F. Kennedy was shot 40 years ago yesterday, just after midnight. Just after declaring victory in the California primary in the Embassy Room Ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel, a landmark whose demolition was completed last year. It’s become tiresomely cliché to recall one’s location at the occurrence of calamitous events — especially on anniversaries. …
I’m regularly harping what one misses while behind the wheel of an automobile, but the same thing can happen from a bike saddle, too. I pass this building at the bottom of the hill on my street every day on my way to work and most of the time on my way home, and assuming …
Talk about a twofer this morning. In the first clip I come up behind an insecure moped rider on Venice Boulevard who — despite it being illegal and able to attain and maintain traffic flow speeds — opts to ride exclusively in the bike lane: And in this next encounter a few blocks later I …
Sometimes you need a little rejection to discover something worth keeping. This morning in need of a snack at the office vending machine I kept dropping a coin into the slot that kept working its way into the coin return after each of several attempts to deposit it. Delicate and sensitive must be the vending …
I lamented a couple weeks ago about the tiny doorframe spider whose days I figured were numbered after discovering the birth and subsequent disbursement of her multitudinous babies. Not quite: Turns out she’s got another eggsac working. You go girl:
Tis the season… for goatheads. Grrrrrrrrrreat. I don’t know where I picked this fine fellow up but I saw it stuck in my front tire while I was still a couple miles away from work this morning. At least it had the decency to stay embedded in the sidetread and keep enough air in the …
My 70-mile “Ride Of A Lifetime” last Thursday, helped me finish the month of May with 682.45 bicycling miles — topping my previous all-time high of March’s 651.08. Had I opted to go for a 24-mile ride Saturday I could have broken the 2,800-mile barrier, but I figured I’d save that for today.