Say hi to the driver of this brown Kia Soul, California plate 7DVW586, who I met Friday at about 5PM at the intersection of Figueroa and 21st Street as he crept out (as so many motorists do) into the bike lane. Apparently me ringing my bike bell and getting his attention so that they didn’t …
Sigh. As found when I got home from this afternoon’s bike commute from work, the long-top heavy branch from one of the giant rice paper trees had given way, finally victim of old age, gravity, and a gust of wind despite my efforts with a strategically placed post during the winds and rains of the …
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Perhaps ya know by now I’m not into clean, even-numbered mileage milestones when it comes to my bikings. Still, regardless of the odd number involved I’ll usually dismount and snap a photo of Bigfoot’s odometer. Not yesterday morning. I was cutting it close both to being late to work and for the last digit to …
Getting an early start this morning allowed me to bike instead of drive to my semi-annual dentist appointment whose offices are located in La Milla Milagrosa, which also allowed me to have LACMA’s famed “Levitated Mass” all to myself to roll under and then back again. Happy Friday. P.S. Seeing that big ol’ rock brought …
My favorite radio station, KUSC (91.5FM) has an annual program called “Love at First Listen” in which they solicited listeners to share the classical music that had a profound impact on them whether it was something they heard as a child or something heard last week and then air them throughout an upcoming week. A …
Mindblown!Look What I Found! Courtesy the California Digital Newspaper Collection of UC Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies & Research: An article on page 8 from the December 31, 1901, Los Angeles Herald newspaper: “Angels’ Flight Is Given A Test.” UCR’s fancee shmancee website even transcribes the textesses so I don’t have to — yer welcome: …
Pulled taut, the curved hair shown in the photo above is easily between three-quarters of an inch and one inch long. It takes about a year and a half to get this length. I know, because I’ve been plucking it from my right upper eye-lid at about that intereval for the last 29 years. It …