Because of twits like this who instead of respecting cherished landmarks like Echo Park’s “Lady of the Lake,” they have to climb up and spread their ass cheeks on it. UPDATE: The Eastsider L.A. blog is reporting on vandalism to the eyes of the statue from “sometime last week.” Coincidentally this photo’s Flickr page lists …
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Weird day riding in today — and by riding I mean: Participating In An Ongoing Civic Study Of The City’s Capacity For Assholes. Not only did I have to deal with the bike’s drivetrain emitting phantom thunks whose source I couldn’t discern, but in addition I got right-hooked thrice by passing sedans. I haven’t been …
Don’t lecture me because I understand that I am to blame. Instead of asserting my right to the lane I’m biking in, I have a tendency to ride too far to the right — only a couple-three feet out from the curb, or well within the doorzone. I’ve tried to change that habit, but that’s …
I’m southbound on La Brea, pedaling in the curb lane. There’s a parked car between me and Wilshire Boulevard so I work my way to the left edge of the lane and as I get there a sedan in the center lane passes me and I see there are four males in it — all …
As you may or may not know my Canon point-n-shoot camera died at the end of May, but fortunately is under warranty and has spent the days since at a camera spa in Orange County I shipped it off to, getting massages and hot oil treatments and immersion tank sessions and group therapy so that …
Check out Dan Turner, L.A. River Hater, in the L.A. Times. The dude goes for a five-mile bike ride along the path from Griffith Park to Fletcher and comes back like some definitive expert with things like this to say: “…I’d like to write some Whitmanesque stanzas about the atomic oneness of nature, but the …
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