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So here’s how my hairy upper lip looked just prior to its execution on the morning of December 1:
The above moodily lighted moustache was cultivated throughout the previous month as I participated in the annual Movember movement to raise awareness of men’s health issues and ...
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With the pitch darkness of the Death Valley Junction Saturday night pushed back only slightly by our lakeside campfire, I adjourned from both its warmth and Susan for the camper to shed the sweats I was wearing and put on some clothes more presentable for dinner at the Amargosa Cafe followed ...
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I dropped the camper van rental off at its Hawthorne home yesterday morning, settled the bill and boarded my bike for the nine miles or so from Rosecrans and Crenshaw to work in Westchester. Eight-tenths of a mile later, making the turn to go north on Prairie up to Manchester came the telltale ...
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Let me introduce you to this adorable little chiropteran fella:
(You’ll wanna click it for the bigger picture)
Don’t fret. It’s sleeping, not dead. It may look like it’s flat on the ground, but its clinging vertically to a beam under an eave next to the Amargosa ...
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Directions: After enjoying turkey and all the fixin’s, and then lighting a campfire, mount a camera on a tripod at Eureka Dunes Thanksgiving Day evening with a waxing gibbous moon behind you. Next point the camera out into the ...
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Well, we’re home safe from our oddball Thanksgiving weekend in Death Valley. There were moments of disappointment, such as when on a cold and windy and damp Saturday morning from Ubehebe Crater looking at the snow-dumping serious storm parked over the road to Racetrack Playa that I made ...
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Susan Sarandon
In August I wrote about our off-the-wall plans for what may very well be the oddest, bestest most awesome Thanksgiving of our lives next week. It involves packing up a rented SUV and leaving Los Angeles Wednesday night, driving straight out to Death Valley’s Eureka Dunes, spending ...
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Michael Bay
I began my 6,000th biking mile as I crossed the intersection of Venice and National boulevards at 7:08 p.m., but I stopped to commemorate the milestone with a more interesting background a block further on:
The above image is slightly biggifiable, or you can watch the brief vid from ...
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Venice
I began my 6,000th biking mile as I crossed the intersection of Venice and National boulevards tonight, but I stopped to commemorate the milestone with a more interesting background a block further on:
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Venice
So I was pointed to this page of the Yield To Life website by a member of the Bike Writers Collective. Apparently in an attempt to minimize what has the potential to be a 10-year sentence for Dr. Christopher Thompson his defense team is gathering letters and testimonials of support for what a ...
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Emma Thompson
The element that most consistently changes on this blog is that little box in the sidebar near the top of this front page titled “Bike Mileage Tally.” I’m pretty religious in its updating. Whenever I put my peds to the pedals be it for a short trip in my neighborhood, a ...
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After a dental appointment yesterday morning in the Miracle Mile I was struck by the meteorological majesty of the day and couldn’t help but bike to Westchester via Santa Monica and Venice and Marina Del Rey to marvel at such magnificence.
Before leaving the Venice Pier for the office, ...
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Ranger at 6:25 a.m. today on the chippendale in the dining room bay window
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And the last thing it hears is Pepper saying, “By yourself you aren’t much of a meal, but perhaps you have family nearby?”
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Barry Pepper
It’s become a bit of a weekend institution since I got Susan a rattan patio set for our anniversary in June for us to sit out there on Saturday and Sunday mornings enjoying our coffees, the paper and whatever of our animals wish to join us.
Out there this morning, I enticed Jiggy to ham ...
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Susan Boyle
Breakfast at the always-awesome Blue Star in the Scrap Metal District south of downtown followed by a venture to Montebello to get us an early stash of Broguiere’s egg nog was a great way to start our morning.
Here’s an adorable example of how a lot of our local birds get their ...
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There were tickets in those days…
It’s late-breaking but I’m suddenly very very excited by Sunday’s long-awaited opening of the Gold Line rail extension from Union Station down through Little Tokyo and then across the Eastside. So much excited am I that my ...
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I’d forgotten about this picture. I took it the week before last week. I’m not sure where this duo came from. Could be they were already in the office, but my guess is that they ended up hitching a ride on my backpack that I’d set down on the ground while I was fixing a ...
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Westchester
You’ll pardon me if I’m not going all “golly gee!” over your new Stadium-To-The-Sea course route you’ve been crowing about this week. I’m still too bitter about the bike tour being dead to get all knee-deep in the rah-rah.
What’s that, you say? The ...
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At face value, the visual I am unabashedly about to force upon your eyes might seem like one thing, but it is another thing entirely.
(close to actual size)
Sure, it’s easy to look at at that incongruous mix of light and dark hairs stubbily extending out all over my upper lip and ...
