To mark the occasion of Franklin Avenue’s 100th restaurant review, Mike and Maria invited their readers and fellow bloggers to come dine on french dip sammiches with them yesterday afternoon at the venerable landmark of Cole’s Pacific Electric Buffet and Susan and I got my mom to come along and join them for our inaugural …
The sad word’s out that Gita, the L.A. Zoo’s 48-year-old elephant, died this morning. During those cherished opportunities when I worked there that I was able to get this close… [large version here] …to the 9,000-pound pachyderm she never failed to be the gentlest and most beautifully dispositioned of giants, which stands in testament to …
If it’s the second friday of the month you know where I’ll be: pedelating and picturetaking out and about through the night and among the hundreds of other Midnight Ridazzez. Hung out pre-ride with Mr. Roullier and along the way bumped into Eric Richardson and his fiancee Kathy , Jillian and L.A. Alternative’s Evan George, …
Given the fact that we did the photo shoot last freakin’ Sunday afternoon, I didn’t think the story was going to run until next week or the week after, so you can guess my surprise when I saw myself and the other faux-militarized contributors to the cover feature of this week’s Los Angeles Alternative weekly …
Pix from our Memorial Day weekend in Death Valley are finally up in a Flickr set here, ending with this one taken by Susan at the end of my 17-mile downhill birthday ride May 29: Some of Rachel’s are viewable here.
Phone rings yesterday and it’s a young man from Bangalore, India or Mogadishu, Somalia or Reykjavik, Iceland or Whogives, Aturdistan calling asking if they may speak to a “Mr. or Mrs. McLain.” With McLain being Susan’s maiden moniker I tell them honestly and matter of factly that there is no one here at this number …
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I’m trying to sort through the shots from the Death Valley trip Susan and I and our friend Rachel took over Memorial Weekend. In the meantime here’s a couple of Rachel’s that she sent; the first taken in the entryway of one of the park’s 120-something-year-old kilns and the second one of me rolling down …