White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

The Metro system has been on my nerves this week- I guess every 6 months the bus drivers bid for new schedules and rarely do they get the same schedule. So just after you’ve figured out the idiosyncracies of each driver you may encounter (whether they typically are late, early, fall asleep between runs [...]

Officer, I was thinking, I have a lot of kind of “generic” questions about life as a LAPD Officer, especially one working Central Division/Skid Row. And I’ll bet some of the other downtown readers have questions too- maybe I’ll need to do a little “moderating” but I think everyone could ask decent questions w/o [...]

Not much to say- I walked by this guy yesterday around noon on Alameda- kind of chuckled to myself that if I was trying to take a wheelchair down that stretch of sidewalk, with all the tree roots pushing the concrete into major “moguls”, I’d need to take a break too.
Then I return 4 hours [...]

It used to be that the homeless would come to beach areas in winter time- I heard that many were from out of state and wanted to get away from snow. Now, as of last week, I am seeing more homeless are sleeping on street in my hood. Most seem harmless and [...]

In my past “beach” life I always wanted to come help at the Mission on Skid Row at Thanksgiving.  But now that seems like such a “photo op” for the celebs- not a real way to offer a little encouragement or help to the homeless.
I have not figured out what to do yet- but I [...]