Posts tagged ‘Los Angeles’

Trees & Water

I miss them. I live in Los Angeles. As much as its residents try to ignore it, Los Angeles is actually part of the desert. This…

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The Winds of Doom

I live in southern California. Most of the time, the weather is great. There’s one thing about southern California weather that no one tells you before…

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El Autobús

Autobús has always been one of my favorite Spanish words. We, boring English speakers, would pronounce it ot•tow•buss. The Spanish language, on the other hand, is way…

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Love Letter To Los Angeles

I live in Los Angeles. This entire town is an attraction… for someone. It’s not for me, at least, not in the traditional sense. People come…

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Get Me To Move

The Daily Post asked what it would take to get me to move out of state. “If someone you trusted offered you $1000 to move to…

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Five-Minute Conversation

If you could go back in time and have a 5 minute conversation with yourself ten years ago, what would you say? Ten years ago, I…

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If I Could Work from Anywhere…

I can work from anywhere now. I’m a graphic designer, which generally means my profession is portable. All I need to do my job is this…

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Snow Day

How do you stay entertained when you are snowed in? I live in southern California where snow days don’t even exist. I know people who have…

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Road Trip!!

I’ve taken a lot of road trips over the course of my life. Some of them turned out to be disastrous, some were amazing, others were…

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Los Angeles At Night

The neighborhood was deathly quiet, which was amazing since it was right in the middle of Los Angeles. It’s never quiet in Los Angeles, but it…

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The Best Day Of Your Life

A friend of mine once asked, actually, he insisted, that I tell him what the best day of my life was. This happened at a party…

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The Montebello Incident

I’ve done some pretty stupid things in my life; some things I regret and some things that were just plain idiotic. I’m not proud of them,…

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Public Service Announcement

I live in Los Angeles.  Living in Los Angeles means that, inevitably, I know people who work in the entertainment industry, the poor saps.  A friend…

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Things I Saw At Lunch Today Part 3

A man pushing another man in an electric wheelchair. A man pushing an empty hospital gurney down the street. A woman pushing a stroller with a…

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Seben Leben

I have a day job in an office where I sit at a desk in front of a computer.  I’m a graphic designer. The computer is…

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Carjack Defense System

Part One: The Wrath of the Voll One night, for reasons unknown to me, I ended up at a family-style Italian restaurant chain called Buca Di…

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Operation Pink Hair

You have the right to a fair trial by a jury of your peers. It sounds like a good idea until you see it in practice.…

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Blow Things Up Day

Los Angeles: densely populated land of the desert in the middle of a persistent drought. Not really optimal conditions for lighting things afire and shooting them…

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