January 23rd, 2012

Along for the Ride: Line 14

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For my latest edition of the Along for the Ride series of transit chronicles I rode Line 14 from Downtown Portland to Lents, and back again. Along the way I stopped for lunch at a taqueria I’d once [...]

August 26th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Island Time Aboard the 85

Welcome to the second week of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. If you haven’t already, check out the first edition and if you like the series, please spread the word, or even cover my bus fare.

This week, I woke early Wednesday morning intending to [...]

August 19th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Going Live on the 75

Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large.

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The concept: explore Portland as seen from the metropolitan region’s transit lines. Each week, through a highly [...]

May 15th, 2010

One Year Ago: Mastering the Bus

May 15, 2009.

I quit a job, spent a year of my life and paid thousands of dollars to get this shot.

June 9th, 2009

What’s Next and Marathon Love

New posts coming this week:

– Posts on production and consumption versus conservation; – Environmental critiques of train travel; – The ultimate (if not particularly green) multi-modal vacation; – Dodger Stadium gets even less accessible; – Privacy, chatting and (in)visibility.

To keep you sated, I’ve been meaning to post some of my photographs from my [...]

May 27th, 2009

Undercutting the competition

As should be readily apparent, I haven’t posted to Lascher @ Large in some time. I’ve spent the past two months completing my master’s degree, a time during which I sacrificed this site to one last focus on academics. I’ve also taken some time to consider what my next career steps might be, to pitching [...]

March 2nd, 2009

Seen This Week: Feb. 23 - Mar 2

It has been a bit of one of those weekends for me — not to complain to strangers, though — I’ll let the images speak for themselves. Highlights include an afternoon on campus at USC, to a Saturday afternoon visit to the Bicycle district at Heliotrope and Melrose, and a quick jaunt up the coast [...]

February 23rd, 2009

Seen This Week: Paradise for $5

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 [...]