For about a year I’ve had an inadvertent subscription to New York Magazine. Somehow it just started appearing in my mailbox. I kinda thought perhaps I had tried to subscribe to The New Yorker, made some ridiculous mistake, then forgotten about the episode. Strangely, none of my credit card or bank statements said anything about [...]
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February 23rd, 2009 Most mornings, I stand near the corner of 3rd Street and Vermont with a crowd of strangers in front of a planter between a McDonald’s and a discount store. There, in the northern extremities of Koreatown, we wait for the Metro Rapid 754 (some riders are waiting for the DASH Wilshire Center/Koreatown instead). I’m [...] February 20th, 2009 I’m in the midst of preparing some posts about the Expanding Vision of Sustainable Mobility summit hosted this week by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In doing so, I’m semi-procrastinating by skimming long-ago bookmarked blog entries and Web sites I set aside for reference in my master’s project exploring the possibility of [...] February 14th, 2009 A few weeks ago I started typing on one of my dad’s old typewriters. The arms of each key on the Royal Arrow moved slowly, as if moving through molasses. My words tripped over themselves, caught in the machine’s throat. Dust dulled the dark gray casing of the machine. Another typewriter sat on a table [...] February 14th, 2009 Friday the 13th always seems to be a lucky day for me. Of course, I was born on a Friday the 13th, so can I get any more self-absorbed than launching this Web site — a personal venue for my reporting and writing — than thinly veiling my contrarianism and how much I enjoy a [...] |
     
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