In geeky honor of last night’s sheduled Earth Hour event, Susan and I went overboard. We didn’t just turn out the lights sweet darling, we went all the way in flipping all the fuses and enjoying a self-imposed black out for an hour Saturday night. It was a terrifically serene scenario that of course made …
The above blink-and-you’ll-miss-it snippet sliced from today’s morning commute timelapse footage might seem at first look to be nothing much, so lemme just cut to the chase and let the complaint filed with the MTA tell the whole story: The operator of MTA Bus No. 8115 on the westbound 333 line at 9:20 a.m. this …
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Today was an odd day. I took it off from work because Susan and I had planned a “summit” with the architect and contractor regarding our upstairs disrenappovationtment (aka the $62,000 bath tub) — and that actually concluded quicker than I’d figured and more importantly on a positive with some hope that with a redesign …
Earlier this week I dusted off that bike story from the archives, now let me tell you this one: It was without doubt the single most infuriating and vengefully satisfying bicycling encounter with asshats in a car and it happened a looooong time ago. It was the summer of 1991. I was going through a …
I guess I could blame last night’s earthquake on the increased general aggression and agitation I encountered from drivers on my ride home from work last night, but two in particular — both coincidentally operating Toyota Rav-4s — stand out from the rest. The first one, driven by an older blond woman, came up behind …
Note: I’d written this to completion December 28, but an inopportune FAIL of WordPress’ draft-save function left only the first few paragraphs saved and the rest unrecoverable after I clicked “publish.” In the frustrating aftermath I’ve spent the last week grousing and harumphing miserably at all that had been lost, waffling between junking the saved …
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I put this up on LA Metblogs, but given my last couple posts about animal interventions I’d be totally remiss if I didn’t include this unique bunny encounter from Friday night here: