This was a pretty nice walk, and I even did it on a day, in the afternoon no less, when it was 100 degrees F, and didn't pass out. You see some interesting things on the way. It's a bit over 4 miles total, and you have lots of chances to rest. Just do it… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Pasadena to San Rafael to Highland Park
The famous California poppy! Fields and fields of them, so magnificent and splendid, blah blah. Well, suppose you live in Los Angeles, and you haven't yet gone deranged, and you don't have a car, and you decide you want to see these poppies. You're going to look up the best places to see them, and… Continue reading Find California Poppies in Los Angeles using Public Transportation
Here's a nice little stroll you can do through Los Angeles: Koreatown to Little Bangladesh to Larchmont: a stroll through Los Angeles First, get yourself to the Wilshire/Vermont metro station. You can get to this station quite easily on the Red Line or Purple Line metros. Supposing you start off at Union Station -- then… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Koreatown to Little Bangladesh to Larchmont
Here's a nice, long walk you can take through a portion of the Los Angeles region -- you'll see some nature (well, the Los Angeles version of nature, which includes a river that they've paved over), some famous landmarks, and a rich neighborhood with some famous architects. Here's where you'll be walking: you'll be north… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Lower Arroyo to the Rose Bowl to Frank Lloyd Wright House
I wrote previously about how if you take train trips around the US, you end up stumbling upon mass shooting sites. Well, somewhat related: I was again stumbling around the other day and I came across this Home Depot: Home Depot This is a Home Depot where ICE did some of their raids, and a… Continue reading More sites of death around the US
I wrote about Swedish books at the Los Angeles library earlier, and I wanted to write more specifically about the kids' books in Swedish that they have. They have a lot of them! These books are all housed in the children's section (as opposed to the international books section). Most are not actually on the… Continue reading Swedish books at the Los Angeles Library
I read these three books -- about the same three sisters -- repeatedly in middle-school: Journey to America books I found them again recently and re-read them all. The first book in the series is "Journey to America" and that's about a family leaving Germany right before World War II. And the two other books… Continue reading Journey to America books
I recently found out that many of the books that Lucy Maud Montgomery mentions reading in her journals -- obscure books from the 1800s -- can be found in the Loserville Library. When I say obscure, I mean they are obscure today. They were best-sellers back in their time. One of them is Beside the… Continue reading Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
When I was little, I had a secret fantasy of attending Claremont McKenna College. If I had known then as I know now that it's right by Loserville, I probably would have squashed that idea. But I hadn't really researched the place. My romantic notions of the place were based solely on the fact that… Continue reading Claremont McKenna
August 2014. Exactly 10 years ago. That was the summer that "Daesh" (ISIS) had suddenly taken over parts of Iraq and Syria. I was in Jordan at the time, so right in the neighborhood. Yet Jordan had been so still and peaceful that the clamor from next-door had felt far away. But then, things started… Continue reading What’s it like flying to Los Angeles?
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