It was while coming down Highland Avenue approaching Franklin Avenue  a couple days ago I saw this billboard so awesome I just had to snap it (click to enlargify). It’s promoting the much-anticipated spinoff to the incredibly popular “Walking Dead,” and while the 13-year-old zombie-lover inside me can’t freakin’ wait for series to start, the …
A lot has rightfully been made of the killing of “Cecil” the lion in Zimbabwe by that Minnesota dentist who paid what to me is an exorbitant amount of money, but to him seems like it might just be a drop in the bucket in his pursuit of something he’s so passionate in practitioning. A …
Given my (increasingly distant) past of pedaling 6,000 miles-plus a year, IÂ had a totally doable resolution for 2015 last January: bike 2,015 miles. As of today I’ve logged… 38.39 miles. To put that in perspective, the last time I placed ass to saddle was January 6. That few number of miles and that amount …
Point of order with regard to the headline/article (screengrabbed at right): I’d be amazed if a studio would dare to call for an embargo of reviews already written. Can you imagine 20th Century Fox ordering the Los Angeles Times not to print its theater critic’s column until the film’s actual release date? The Times would …
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 …
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 …
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 …