White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

Thank you Mom for everything you’ve done for me- I love you very much!

This has happened a number of times in my building- dumb a** punks scribble crap with knives on the inside of the (stainless steel) doors of our elevators. Ok, I’m used to graffeti- and some is actually cool, as long as it is not defacing private property.
But what gets me pissed is the thought […]

I was going through some of my earlier blog posts, trying to fix images and videos that broke when I moved my blog-site to a new service provider, and I was blown away by some of the 1 year old pics and videos looking out of my window towards City Hall. 
When I moved into the […]

On my noon White Dog walk I was heading home, W. on 2nd St. from Los Angeles St. to Main St., passing by the old cathedral/mission as I usually do to avoid the mass of dogs on the “CalTrans” or north side of 2nd St.  At the light, a group of ladies that had been following me […]

I must admit, for the first 6 months or so that I lived here, I did not cook once- didn’t even unpack my pots and pans.  I enjoyed trying all the local places, from delis, to chains, greasy-spoons, sushi bars, steak houses, you name it.  But when I started dieting, I needed to get real […]

In keeping with the new downtown blogging trend of having guest authors on blogs, I am posting (with her permission) a great piece of prose that was sent to the Higgins Building mailing list by Debbie Kim.  Debbie is a resident of the Higgins, and an “early adopter” of living downtown.  From time-to-time she will send out […]

Google Maps provides a cool feature called “Street View” where given a point on a map, you can see a panoramic view of that location- and in the “Street View” you can use the mouse to pan up, pan down, rotate left or right, or continue “walking” down the street via mouse clicks.  Of course, […]

I just got back from my 6pm White Dog walk, as the “May Day Immigration March” was winding down (they have a permit until 8pm at the 1st and Broadway site, but it appears it will be over by then).  The streets were opening up, traffic was bad, but not too much worse than a normal […]

Please don’t take this as bragging, as I did nothing to deserve this, and there are many better blogs about downtown/Skid Row than mine that were not mentioned, but I still want to let you know that some people on the East Coast may even be checking this site out (according to refererals from www.newyorker.com, […]