I’m having a lot of fun culling stills from my sunglassescam, heavily fauxtifying them and then lobbing them up onto the internest in the form of a Flickr set. People in automobiles sitting inside their vehicles and traveling up or down whatever street or freeway might pass thousands more people sitting in their vehicles than …
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Above is what’s in the first aid kit I carry in my backpack and never bike without. Overkill? Perhaps, but despite having never been a boy scout, I have this thing about wanting to be prepared — be it for me, a friend I’m riding with, or a stranger in need. Because being prepared on …
8Ball posed for me at LACMA’s Urban Lights exhibit on the way home from work one night this week.
It’s just a fact of biking on the streets and I’m long used to getting crossed at intersections by all manner of civilian vehicles who roll through my right of way pretty regularly — be it aggressively intentional or distractedly unaware. This morning’s “meetcha in the middle” partner was a first. Good morning, officers!
I have this little weekly ritual wherein on my way to work Friday morning’s, I stop at the supermarket nearest my office building, lock my bike up to the rim-wrecker bike rack by its front door, go inside, and purchase a bag of cookies that I then take with me to the office and put …
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For the reason of “Just For The Helluvit” I added up my annual bike mileage totals beginning from January 1, 2007 — when I first vowed to log every ride — to last night’s commute home from work, and the number turned out to be another distance milestone crossed: 2007: 3,102.5000 2008: 6,608.1700 2009: 6,741.6930 …
It’s been going on four freaking months since the intersection of 4th Street and Muirfield in Hancock Park was torn up something nasty and then left in a condition that might not be noticeable to anyone speeding over it in a Lexus or Range Rover, but to anyone on two wheels who’s had no choice …
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