While a couple chores went undone thanks to the elongated Battle Of The Bottom Bracket, the energy drawn from my ultimate win against the stubborn bicycle component fueled me to get the vacuuming done, and as reward for that I hit the Majestic Golf Land driving range and hit $12 worth of golf balls. This …
I came late to the game of golf. I bought my first set of clubs in the early-mid 1990s, but beyond a few mostly clueless trips to the driving range off Burbank Boulevard in the Sepulveda basin I never moved with them onto a course. After sitting for way too many years taking up space …
In no real order: Haircut. Take the dogs for a good long neighborhood walk. See “The Dark Knight” with Susan. Replace the bottom bracket on my bike and maybe get a new handlebar stem, and a new chain and while I’m at it swap out the brakes (and put them back on my road bike) …
10:11 p.m. 2-1 in favor of the Cards. Bottom of the ninth. One out. Bases empty. Three balls and two strikes to Matt Kemp. Then the sky opened up and two minutes after this shot was snapped umpires said no more and out came the tarps. Not only have I never been to a Dodger …
I can’t believe it’s less than a month shy of two freakin’ years ago when I last did this, but that’s not stopping me from entering into a golf tournament that’ll be taking place at this championship course as part of an industry convention I’ll be attending this September in Savannah, Ga. I’ve got four …
At the gathering of last weekend’s Watts Happening II Ride, friend, Blogdowntowner and fellow IAAL•MAF’er Eric Richardson told me just enough about the Los Angeles Baseball League tryouts he’s planning on attending this coming Sunday morning at L.A. Valley College to get me thinking I’m a-gonna go as well. I know: sillysauce. Especially since Eric …
L.A. Blogfather and L.A. Times Blogmaster Tony Pierce has a picture I presume he took posted to his Busblog of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who in the frame I presume is in the midst of getting an assist with his new L.A. Times blog that Tony helped land — and all of which is awesome. Tony’s proximity …
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