I'm sitting at a hotel bar in LA sipping a Manhattan and idly scrolling through my phone for waxed canvas field jackets. It's just a nightcap to take the edge off a six hour road trip. There's a British couple next to me, well into the demolition of a bottle of Pinot Grigio, and the wife turns to me and asks, "what's that you're drinking ( Read more... )

Approaching the intersection of Mass Ave. and Western/River/Prospect, I had a guy walking out into the road, lugging some duffel bag and kinda walking in the middle of my travel lane. I slowed up and waited for him to walk past a line of parked cars, hoping he'd cut over to the sidewalk once he was clear, but he just kept walking straight and I was ( Read more... )

On the morning commute, pass a cyclist with one hand off their handlebars, talking on the cell phone: -5
At the red light, watch the cyclist blow past it ... still talking on the phone: -10
"Hey, wow, blowing a red light and talking on the cellphone, that's like double douchebag points!": +10 ( Read more... )

outside a grocery store, walking back to unlock the fixed gear from the parking rack, I saw two schoolchildren standing next to it. One of them looked up as he saw me approach and asked in that unabashed way that is the privilege of children ( Read more... )

We were walking to our movie and Ann was saying, "so, I learned how to eat with chopsticks when I was young, and I remember that a friend of mine saw me and she asked how I learned how to do it, and I said that I learned it from my mom, and she asked if my mom was Asian and I said, 'do I look Asian?'We chuckled at that and I said that it was a ( Read more... )