Scenes of the Crimes

What a gorgeous day today. Blustery and not very warm, but with the rains of yesterday having blown through, L.A. was left with one of the most crystal clear days I’ve seen in a long, long time. Susan and I spent this wonderful day chasing ghosts. Let me rephrase that: Susan indulged my fascination with …

What A Trip!

So yes, a touch of caution over it being Friday the 13th and the urgings of my inner lazy demon to just blow it off were both thrown to the wind and I rolled over with my helmetcam rig to participate in last night’s Midnight Ridazz group ride. I’ve never put much stock on the …

‘Round About Midnight

I’m here at the library allowing myself a brief respite from my duties to post notice that it is the second Friday of the month, which means only one thing in my world: it’s that time again for a Midnight Ridazz group ride gathering at 9:30 p.m. in Echo Park and setting out about 30 …

Museé des Faux Arts

T’was an excellent trip downtown yesterday — enjoyable breakfast at Clifton’s, a very productive day over at the central library and informative as to the number of freaks on the streets that I strolled past coming and going. I also found that for my upcoming jury duty later this month I can take the No. …

Going On The Offensive

Wow, It’s before 8 a.m. and I’m up and showered and dressed and ready to go somewhere as if I have a real job or something, which I do, albeit it’s more of a personal mission. The plan is to finish this Rwanda feature by Friday. Pardon the analogy but this ape story has become …

A Different Kind Of Horoscope

I’ve written in the past about me being far more a spiritual person than a religious one. I covered how I was grew up attending the Church of Religious Science, which doesn’t cram a strict set of precepts down your unworthy soul as it does proseletize on an individual’s partnership — 50/50 — with God. …