Check Mate

Lunch! First timer to Plan Check on Fairfax and I have to say, I’m impressed. The Smoked Fried Chicken is what lured me in and I can say wholeheartedly that it is glorious. They have another location closer to home on Wilshire near downtown.  I’ll so be there. As in this Sunday after we take …

Is It Too Much To Ask?

Probably. And not that I would ever give even the most meticulously clean off-ramp panhandler money (though I have been known to hand out snacks or water to them on occasion). But still, even though I unbendingly consider them all low-grade con artists, I’d probably have a  scosh more respect for them if they’d at least …

‘The Drop’ Is Tops

So this is how I chose to watch “The Drop” last night. First I scanned through the on-demands available, and finding nothing that piqued my interest, I checked out what was on the 10 channels of HBO — but I knew already what was on HBO because practically all they’ve been showing this last few …

In Which I Did Smote My Facebook And Then Ramble About Reincarnating It And Rebirthing This Blog

It wasn’t a single straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back, more like the combined weight of  a thousand of them. But the last one dropped today, in the form of a shared post showing up in my feed from a “friend” (an acquaintance from high school who I said “Hi” to once in-person approximately …

Hyperlapse: Bike Rides of 2015 (Mile 19.26 to 38.39)

I’m digging this hyper realtime alternative to timelapsing. My third and fourth rides of 2015 — the morning commute to work of approximately 8.5 miles and the dusk-to-dark ride home of 10.6 miles– seen at approximately ten times normal speed. Follow

Timelapse: Bike Rides of 2015 (Mile 0 to 8.43)

Be it hereby resolved I will ride 2,015 miles in 2015 and it began with this standard south-and-west bike commute of 8.43 miles primarily on Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard from home to work. Follow