Today was too warm and too beautiful and too Saturday not to finally liberate the hammock from its off-season quarters in the basement and re-install it back to its rightful place on the stand situated in the upper corner of the backyard: (click thumbs to enlargify): Â Running a, uh… prolonged and required Official Hammock …
Hey now! The photo below (click to humongify) of a passion flower and carpenter bee that I snapped on the way to work this morning (and posted to L.A. Metblogs) was found by Mark Fraunfelder and posted on Boing Boing. Dang Dang! Too bad he thinks my name is “Will Mann.” Even more too bad …
A couple posts ago I pointed a hellbent finger at a couple insurance companies with the word “Farm” in their titles who just so happened to put out near-simultaneous TV advertisements that take unnecessary pokes at bike commuters. What I neglected to mention was that I wrote emails to State Farm and Farmers respetively taking …
And so it was that a crew of five of us set out with about 40 fresh and piping hot burritos on last night’s revitalization of the dormant Hollywood Burrito Project ride and we learned that no good deed goes unpunished. We headed up Western Avenue where first I flatted my rear tire after nailing …
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This first commercial from Farmers Insurance posted below left the urban cyclist in me wanting to bike over to the company’s Wilshire Boulevard headquarters and egg the building. The next one from State Farm just makes me twitch: But beneath the arrogant humiliation of cyclists and cycling that’s being promoted in those spots, there’s a …
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Around the same time last summer that I made this night-long timelapse of a nocturnal cactus flower opening wide, I dropped a couple fallen prickly pear cactus pads into a small pot of soil and commenced spritzing them with water occasionally through the subsequent seasons in hopes that they might keep on going. I’m pleased …
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” I’ve trumpeted it before: the magicalsad happybad intriguing provoking unique surprising things one finds from the saddle of a cycle through the city, and yesterday was no exception. OK, so maybe mine aren’t anywhere near as spectacular as attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, but …