Morning Snap: Kitchen Leap — 7:21 a.m.

Every morning Susan divies up the breakfast can of Fancy Feast to the four cats. Bink dines in the bedroom, Pumpkin on the breakfast table, Pepper and Jiggy gobble theirs up on the kitchen counter. For whatever reason, after he finishes, Pepper walks to about mid-stove sets himself and makes the not-so-long jump across the …

Morning Snap: Afghan Pine Sapling — 7:31 a.m.

With luck, attention and the proper mix of conditions, nutrients, and whatever else is needed for its success, I’m hopeful this little six-inch Afghan pine (aka desert pine, eldar pine) sapling that I transplanted into a nice-sized pot yesterday afternoon will grow to become a living Christmas tree for us to decorate either this year …

Money Well Pfffft’d

On one hand after suffering through years of what I considered a decidedly anti-bike stance in the L.A. Times I gotta admit things have changed a bit of late. They had a great article featuring the Bicycle Kitchen’s and L.A. County Bike Coalition’s Monica Howe last week, one of a few pieces that have actually …

Expending A Few Rounds

So today afforded me the opportunity to meet up with Sean Bonner and Michael Baffico and several other firearm loving sonofaguns at the Los Angeles Gun Club on 6th Street east of Alameda where we put a fair amount of lead through a bunch of paper. I started with a Smith & Wesson 9mm that …

Bonus Points!

Christmas comes but once a year, but it seems that afterward it can be a veritable eternity watching discarded Christmas trees decomp by the curbs upon which their irresponsible discard-‘tards dump them. Short of dedicating the waste management resources to pick up directly after this legion of post-holiday idiots, the city of Los Angeles goes …