Mount San Antonio (better known as Mount Baldy) at 10,068 feet is the highest point in Los Angeles County and the third-tallest mountain in Southern California. Pretty easy to find, with well-marked trails, take the 210 to Mount Baldy Road and keep going up. There are three trails to the top, and we took the [...]
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Why Hasn’t There Been An Ocean Spill of the World’s Most Expensive Black Liquid Commodity: Printer Ink
July 16th, 2010
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Not one to be outmuscled in the global market, BP has upped the ante on Exxon-Mobil by not just dumping a ship’s worth of oil directly onto seagulls, but has done the favor of directly unleashing the Earth’s supply straight into the water, thus cutting out the middleman of a drunken sailor. It makes you [...]
Death Valley Vacation Video
July 1st, 2010
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This trip was back in November. About a six hour drive from Los Angeles. I-15 towards Vegas, route 127, then 178 into the park. Stopped by Badwater Salt Flats, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. Then around Artists Palatte (purty rocks) and up to Dante’s View, which looks down on the whole valley. Camped [...]
How Have Serbians Preserved An Entire Ethnicity of People Who All Look Drunk?
June 17th, 2010
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Serbia seems to have produced an entire nation of citizens who all look like they are drunk
Have North And South Korea Finally Worked Out Their Contract Disputes For The Korean War Sequel?
May 28th, 2010
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It’s a shame that soaring salaries and egos have detracted countries from producing wars the way they used to. You could make the argument that studios are so invested in “tentpole” wars that carry on for decades and don’t have discernible starts or finishes, simply for the sake of franchising their wars, that we’ll never [...]
Mount Wilson Trail
May 24th, 2010
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Mount Wilson is located near Sierra Madre and is a grueling fifteen mile hike to the observatory, which affords stunning views of the San Gabriels and downtown Los Angeles. Todd and I climbed it while making dick jokes. Here’s the hike: To get to the trailhead, take the 210 freeway to Baldwin Ave. in Sierra [...]
5 Best Bike Lanes in Los Angeles
May 6th, 2010
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5. Chandler Boulevard One of the newest bicycle right-of-ways in the city, this stretches across nearly the entire valley floor from one side of boring, ghetto suburbia to the other. There’s not a lot of sun cover, which makes the Chandler path useless from May through October, and you have to stop frequently at intersections, [...]
Verdugo Mountains Hike
April 23rd, 2010
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The Verdugo Mountains are an isolated mountain range that is located near Glendale, Burbank and La Canada near the 2 freeway. It is a little less than six miles to do the loop and is easily one of the best clear-day views that is inland from the coast. Even on an overcast day like this [...]
The Pacific Miniseries Harkens Back to the Good Old Days of Racism
April 15th, 2010
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When our country is currently shackled by two wars being fought against a shadowy enemy, it’s nice to have a miniseries that takes us back to the classic days of being allowed to be obligatorily racist against specific groups of people. The Pacific, HBO’s ten-part miniseries about the Japanese theater of World War Two, harkens [...]
The Kyrgyzstan Revolt Is What Happens When Citizens Are Denied Vowels
April 10th, 2010
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The explosion in tensions in Kyrgyzstan this week showed how susceptible governments are if they oppress citizens and command a weak police presence. We have all learned that you can’t keep citizens from the vowels they deserve. I’m not exactly sure where Kyrgyzstan is located. I tried searching for it on Google Maps, but instead [...]
