Last Saturday was the training day scheduled for the freshly minted volunteers of the inaugural class of Glendale’s Trail Safety Patrol program. I was among 17 others who sat in the Glendale Police Department’s Community Room for eight hours to learn about procedures, first aid, protocols, and such. A reporter from the Glendale News-Press, Brittany …
I wrote about why I would be canceling my subscription to the Los Angeles Times over at Blogging.la (read it here), but just in case there’s doubt as to whether I walked the walk with my symbolic gesture, I recorded the conversation I had this morning with the customer rep.
Two things you can count on angelenos to bitch and moan about: rain and traffic. Orb weaver doesn’t give a shit. Orb weaver’s bad ass. Rain? Feh. Traffic? Go ride a bike, says Orb weaver. The President of the United States is in town and it’s all about the gridlock everyone gets stuck in. Boo. …
But let us not be as thankful the segment opened with the anchor reading: “So it wasn’t a great day to go for a walk unless you like walking in the rain.” For the record, the walk got sprinkled early on, but by the time we got to LaFayette Park the skies dried up and …
As you might remember, a year ago in October I had something of a miracle encounter on Ballona Creek with a stricken gull whose injury most certainly would have proven fatal had I not been able to come to its rescue beyond my wildest imaginings. Well, around the anniversary of that amazing incident, I got …
Got an email out of the blue Thursday morning from KNX Radio reporter John Baird wanting to interview me about tomorrow’s CicLAvia. I said sure. So he came over and we stood on the front porch for a few minutes talking about the event. Then I lucked into catching a repeat broadcast of it on …
As one of them perportedully perfeshunal editor types, I’m at risk of being on the receiving end of a wiiiiide variety of press releases — most of them unrelated to my publication. Some of them are not only unrelated but flat-out kooky. Case in point, this one just landed in my inbox and I’m helpless …