Perhaps it’s because I’m guilty of having been rather proficient behind the fountain counter at the old Beverly Hills Swensen’s Ice Cream Shoppe where I worked during high school, but the $5 milkshake that I had Saturday at the vaunted Milk on Beverly Boulevard left a lot to be desired. Like a shot of bourbon …
click to quadruplify Susan and I walked to and from the last day of the Lotus Festival at Echo Park Lake today, in part because we’d never been and even moreso because we volunteered to be a part of Team Metroblogging Los Angeles in the dragon boat races that run the north south length of …
For a fair number of people afflicted with common sense, the idea of getting on a bike and riding it 20 miles around Los Angeles at night is far-fetched at best, lunatic at worst. Factor in that such a ride occurs on date with a Friday and a 13 in it and you add a …
Indeed it’s Friday the 13th as well as the second Friday of the month which means Midnight Ridazz tonight has been appropriately and spooktacularly themed for the coincidence. From the midnightridazz.com: Leave out the past and future. It’s time to ride. It’s time to experience life like never before. This will be an amazing ride …
Ahhh yes, I found I have been tagged to provide “Eight Things You Don’t Know About Me” by my favorite red-headed Pittsburghian grad student Carolyn who over at her Pinky’s Paperhaus blog has seen fit to include me in her chain. Other than qualifying the title with “Probably” between the “You” and the “Don’t” let’s …
I won’t waste any time on yesterday’s 7.5-hour interval spent waiting around the jury assembly room at the Stanley Mosk courthouse downtown. The end game is that my services as an eager and willing participant in the judicial process weren’t required and after a 90-minute lunch break spent walking around the adjacent mall and the …
I have no words. I’m just amazed. At the power of the internet to connect. It’ll be 14 years or so this next October when I wrote a column for the Pierce College Roundup about a lady who died after throwing herself off the Mulholland bridge over the 405 Freeway. That column went on to …