Sigh. During yesterday’s awesome CicLAvia I ventured to the northernmost section of the extended route, which ended at Cesar Chavez Avenue by Olvera Street. So I decided to go off the course by making a left onto Cesar Chavez and another left onto Spring and get back on it down at 1st Street to go …
Susan and I went down to Club Nokia as guests of the Grammy Museum and relished in the almost four hours of standing-room-only awesome that was last night’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert. Below is the video view from my iPhone as Rage Against The Machine’s absolutely incredible Tom Morello, tore up the place with the …
The system that preceded yesterday’s I called “quiet storm” because it fell so silently during the night of April 11. Friday’s I dubbed fashionably late because it certainly took its time arriving — but when it eventually did it wasn’t shy about it. In the end yesterday it delivered 1.5 inches according to our backyard …
I knew something was up with the way Pumpkin, Patchy and Ranger were behaving inside while Susan and I were having breakfast, but I looked out the north windows on the wrong side of the house initially, finding little out of the ordinary. Then, after Jiggy came back in and Ranger paid him waaaaay too …
On May 1 1969, when I was 4, Fred Rogers appeared before a US Senate subcommittee to fight for the half of the $20,000,000 in funding that President Richard Nixon wanted cut from PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that year. Watch him below as he charms the pants off of the subcommittee’s chairman …
Has it been 10 months already since I showed up at Rio Hondo College for an informational meeting on their police academy program, with an eye toward becoming an “animal cop?” Yep. And about nine months since I took the written exam. And eight and a half months since the physical agility test kicked my …
I’m calling this one the “quiet storm,” and I was fully doubting its strength. It was clear skies at sunset as I skeptically tarped the tortoise hutch and hammock, and while it clouded up as the evening progressed, the rain didn’t start until well after we went to bed last night. And it landed seemingly …