Category Metro Adventures

When running for the bus, how do you ensure the driver won’t leave without you?

Be sure to run for the bus in the lane if traffic in which it is traveling. You know it won’t go anywhere if you’re blocking it! Don’t try this at home, kids. Or on the street.

No Pants Metro Ride: Unofficial Code of Conduct

If you were in Union Station the afternoon of Sunday, January 12th, you would have noticed a lot of people in their undies.  It was LA’s 6th Annual No Pants Metro Ride, and my first year participating.  Just as one would expect, the event and the pantsless after party at Loaded in Hollywood were a […]

True Love

Yesterday I was on the purple line heading to work.  Sitting across from me was a lesbian couple and their young daughter, who was in a stroller.  By watching this couple interacting I could see they had a deep and beautiful love for one another, the sort of love that will withstand the test of […]

This Early Year in Los Angeles

I hope everyone had an incredible New Year’s Eve, with a great start to 2014! As I mentioned in my previous post, my NYE was spent at a black tie party in Santa Monica.  I won the tickets off KCRW and took my friend, Samantha.  The party was something that was totally out of our […]

Happy New Year’s Eve!

I hope 2013 was as good to you as it was to me.  Here’s to a beautiful 2014! Please remember, everyone, use the resources available to you to avoid drinking and driving.  DUIs in Los Angeles down run you about $15,000, and it doesn’t take much to crest the .08 BAC.  Stay safe and keep […]

Punishable By Fine

While waiting for the subway after work this evening, I heard a version of the following announcement being called through the station’s PA system: Attention riders: Smoking, drinking and eating on Metro buses and trains is punishable by a $250 fine. Wait, what?  Smoking is being put into the same category of punishment as eating […]