For as inopportune and imperfect (and avoidable) a blunder as it was mangling my right foot yesterday morning and throwing into doubt my ability to fully participate in today’s Great L.A. Walk, last night’s surprise spill on my bike was the exact opposite. As spills go, it couldn’t have gone better. And certainly could’ve gone …
Sufferers of my deathless postings about my urban bicyclizings, sorry: here’s my next one. At the end of bike business today, with a roundtrip work commute that included a side venture up to The Grove’s Apple Store (to pick up a replacement mouse for the one I broke trying to fix the little roller bally …
Here I am above splitting the gridlocked lanes northbound on Vermont approaching 7th Street. The rest of my impromptu “20-Picture Project” is here on Flickr (including a WTF photo of the remains of a relatively large snake found on Jefferson). But earlier I found what may be my new favorite crosstown street for my commute… …
Alternate commuting pays — literally! I didn’t even know I was entered into the complex’s rideshare drawing, but I found out today in the form of a $25 check delivered to my desk! Cha-ching!
If you’ve read my rantings with any relative regularity you probably know that I am infinitely capable of tossing out ultimatums with reckless sincere abandon and then immediately or shortly thereafter fail to follow through. Such was the case yesterday after getting stuck in the residual traffic due to the fatal accident nearby on the …
I’ve been stewing over this since reading it in yesterday’s L.A. Times. Between the latter part of November and the end of December every year the DWP’s Festival of Lights shines in Griffith Park in all its kitschy kooky glory. And every year the traffic congestion and emissions spew resulting from people clogging neighboring streets …
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It’s coming up on two years since our passion for bicycling brought us to meet at the Echo Park Christmas Parade where a contingent of Bike Kitchen devotees were invited to lead the event. Since then Stephen Roullier and I have logged a lot of miles together, but few more awesome than last night when …