I take occasionally dips into the USC Digital Library because I can’t help but come up with images like this (click it for the bigger picture): From the image’s webpage comes the following description: Photograph of seven riders of the Los Angeles Bicycle Club on one of their club outings, ca.1887. The men are standing …
Susan and I have been lax this last month in our morning walks, but when I heard her alarm go off at 5:15 a.m. I was soon up and at ’em for our local trek that runs about 1.25 miles. On the latter third of that, I found this mystery kitchen utensil just laying on …
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With the completion of the stretch of the Los Angeles River Bikeway through Elysian Valley have come conflicts between pedestrians and cyclists. Certainly a percentage of inconsiderate individuals from each side are responsible for these negative interactions, but inevitably blog posts about the topic will be published in which proprietary pedestrians seems to relish making …
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On the off chance you’ve been wondering about the radio silence regarding the mouse in our care, it wasn’t because of anything bad that happened. On the contrary, the mouse rebounded to 100% and so should have been released as planned on New Year’s Eve night. But with its astonishing recovery, I started having trouble …
For my first ride of 2012, I saddled up before dawn in search of the sunrise, which you’ll see I find peeking out over the hills around Mt Washington/Highland Park east of my location in Griffith Park, about 9.5-miles in to the nearly 20-mile route up and down the Los Angeles River between Griffith Park …
As seen here nibbling a cheerio on New Year’s Eve eve, this mouse — one of two rescued the day after Christmas from certain death by our dog Ranger from our cat Jiggy — took a drastic turn for the worse after the smaller of the pair disappeared (by chewing an escape hole through the …
Well here’s a blast from the past that I found in the dusty archives of a back-up hard drive. This is a forgotten-about video I made in the summer of 2009 of me putting my then-singlespeed bike “Le Noir” up on the stand and doing a pretty thorough frontyard strip to update some of its …
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