This heavily filtered image is of a great blue heron who I found Friday morning stalking unsuspecting snacks in the lotus cove at the north end of Echo Park Lake. The picture is the latest addition to my slow-growing collection of “fauxtographs” that can be found in my Fauxtography Group on Flickr (direct link to …
Since undertaking my weight loss regimen at the beginning of the new year, there’s one thing that’s a constant: my Sunday weigh-in. If it’s Sunday, it’s weigh day. Sure, there have been occasions where I’ve opted to skip the weekly ritual, but never have I cheated and deviated with the device on a different day. …
Being that I’m a sucker for recognition, it was much to my pleasant surprise that I found some blogroll love from Matt Welch‘s LA Times’ blog, where I’m listed under the Characters section in the esteemed company of the likes of Tony Pierce, Dave Navarro, Sean Bonner, COOP and more far worthier the links than …
I spent 19 some-odd years living around the San Fernando Valley: Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Burbank, Glendale, Van Nuys again, Sherman Oaks again, Encino, then back to Sherman Oaks one more time before coming to Silver Lake in 2002. The valley is what it is and I’m not inclined to bag on the place other …
OK, so I’d be lying if I said there was a finite list of things that piss me off. I can get riled up by a seemingly endless array of situations, responses, behaviors, plot points, reactions, et cetera. But in this day and age of the internuts, the one thing that really chaps my e-hide …
This Friday will mark the commencement of what will be my third-annual “10 Rides In 30 Days” in the Verdugo Mountains north of Glendale. I can’t remember how I actually came to decide upon that exact number of rides in that specific number of days back in 2004, but I know it had something to …
Caspar Weinberger died today. When we met it was a far different time in this country. 1985. December. I was about halfway through a solo train trip around the country. I’d come coach on Amtrak from L.A. through the southwest and Texas for a whirlwind overnight layover in New Orleans. Then it was into Alabama …