Catch A Solar Eclipse And Put It In Your Pocket… Save It For A Rainy Day
Snapped at 6:38 p.m. as projected through a spotting scope onto the palm of my hand from our front porch.
Where The Hell Have I Been? Recovering.
It’s not like me to go more than a couple days between posting anything, and my excuse is that it pretty much took me the weekend to recuperate from the all-nighter I pulled Friday shadowing the 340-ton rock between South Los Angeles and its destination at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the …
Autocalypse Now Ride
I had the excellent company of Ann, Harold, Robert and Thaddeus, a fabulous foursome of fellow cycling enthusiasts, who showed up at the starting point in Silver Lake to join me on the 47-mile trek that set out about 9:45 a.m. From the left that’s Harold (who did the whole ride on a singlespeed!), me, …
Go Flight!
Yesterday a Delta IV Heavy rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, making history as the biggest launch vehicle ever shot into space from the West Coast of the United States. Here’s what it looked like from much closer to the action: And of course, being geek enough about such things, I climbed out on …
A Show Of Admiration & Support
Yesterday, a new newspaper hit the streets of Los Angeles for the first time in the form of blogdowntownWeekly. This is important to me not just because I will always be a fan of ink and paper — especially in this age of contraction in which I absolutely love to see new incarnations of the …
What A Difference A Day Makes
You can click to gigantize this roughly knitted panorama of a series of stills that capture the hundreds of people gathered prior to the start of the walk Sunday afternoon. The news has landed. The coroner’s office has ruled today what many people feared and some will refuse to believe, that Silver Lake’s beloved Walking …
Silver Lake Loses A Bit Of Its Stride
I was greeted this pre-dawn with a tweet from my friend Walt, saddened by the death of the man well-known as the Silver Lake Walker, otherwise known to his patients as Dr. Marc Jacobs. In shock and abject sadness over the sudden loss of such a fixture of the neighborhood I then went about posting …