A Simple Truth

Sorry for the upside downishness of the image, I snapped this on the fly after catching it out of the corner of my eye (click to triplify):  It’s a manhole cover I passed on Jefferson just north of Rodeo Road near the designated community of Cameo Plaza, and it reads: City of L.A. Made In …

Moment of 2th

2th? As in 2thousand-and-seven: I’m not sure why I’m going all Zoolander with my lips or what button I pushed on the cam for the image to come out all black-and-white, but there it is and I am: pedaling the first few feet past the intersection of Cota and Ocean Drive in Culver City at …

Does A Milestone Passed Alone In The City Make Any Sound?

While I can’t pinpoint it to an exact measurement, by my calculation I figure by the end of my bike business today give or take a tenth (or a couple) miles I’ll have 11.6 to go tomorrow morning to reach the not-as-elusive-as-I-thought 2,007th mile for the year. And while I also can’t specify the exact …

Momentousness

Having on Friday willfully sacrificed my work commute and that night’s Midnight Ridazz so as to partake with Susan in that not-often-enough summer ritual known as the Hollywood Bowl, I nonetheless deprived myself of adding some 60 biking miles to my annual totals and putting me within a couple commutes of catching and passing my …

The Pruning

Well we thought the time had come, but it turns out after a re-read of the instructions we were actually way overdue in taking the next step with the most advanced of the four avocado seedlings we’d been nurturing in the kitchen windowsill since last month. click to doublify Whereas we thought we were supposed …

Bowl-dly Go

  click to quadrupilate Yeah, we had kick-ass seats for a kick-ass Pink Martini concert tonight at the Hollywood Bowl.

We Interrupt This Bike Blog For…

It ain’t often but occasionally there’s a perk to being a contributionalist with the Metroblogging empire, and last night rose up the opportunity from Blogging.la Captain David Markland to take my wife to a couple of terrace seats at the Hollywood Bowl to see the famed venue recreated as the legenndary Cocoanut Grove nightclub with …