So with the astounding recovery of my lost camera memory card yesterday comes various documentationings of a Saturday full of bikes, first at the LA Bike Summit at LA Trade Tech, and second at the Hope Rides Again event in Hollywood. I didn’t go as crazy with the camera at the former as I did …
Scenes from Friday the 13th’s “Take The Fifth” ride in celebration of the fifth anniversary this month of the first Midnight Ridazz:
Forty years ago this summer my Aunt Frieda, Uncle Jack and cousins Margaret, Laura and Allan came out to visit my mom and me from Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were living in a two-bedroom apartment in a building on the corner of Hamilton Drive and Gregory Way in Beverly Hills, and being 5 years old I …
Thanks to my friend Eric Richardson of Blogdowntown and his excellent coverage of the inauguration event held at L.A. Live’s Nokia Plaza Tuesday morning, I now have visual confirmation of my presence in his photo, above. See me and my bike there? No, over there. In the back — what can I say I got …
I biked downtown this morning to L.A. Live. Grand plans had me getting down there at 6 a.m. for breakfast at the Pantry and then hanging out until Obama gave his first speech as the 44th President of the United States of America. What actually happened was that I left the house around 8: 15 …
There are two stickers on the rear window of my truck that need to come off. Both are homebrew and have been there awhile. One demonstrates my support for a local radio station that until this week did its best to buck the system. The other showcases, somewhat cheekily, my ceaseless disappointment in the man …
In learning about another cyclist getting attacked on the Ballona Creek (via Damien Newton on Streetsblog LA), I first “chewed with my mouth closed.” In other words I seethed in silence, digesting the angrifying news without posting a hyperbolic comment in response. Then yesterday after reading the comment of a fellow bike commuter whose response …
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