http://skidrowdude.com Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles Sat, 17 May 2008 02:20:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, I am happy a Johnny Rockets opened downtown- and I will frequent the one in Little Tokyo occasionally. But it it not that good of a burger place (I lived across street from one in Manhattan Beach and it could not stay in business and moved inland- I ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/16/mayor-has-time-to-flip-burgers/ This is kind of gross, but not quite as graphic as Big City Poz description of how to pick up dog poop- so continue if you can handle a little grossness- I think anyone who's had a pet has had to deal with some stuff. I've been having this problem off-and-on ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/16/white-dogs-bedding-is-expensive/ I was walking home today from a stop at Grand Street Market, and I ran into my homeless friend Troy (he is usually found on Broadway between 3rd and 2nd St.) I don't know why, maybe I was feeling "chatty", but I sat down on sidewalk with him and ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/13/dumb-fat-a-security-leave-us-alone/ Thank you Mom for everything you've done for me- I love you very much! http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/11/happy-mothers-day-mom/ 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 ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/08/graffeti-in-elevator-again/ 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 ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/07/blast-from-the-past-lapd-hq-construction/ 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 ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/07/lets-talk-about-dog-poopin/ 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, ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/06/albertsonscom-delivers-the-goods/ 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 ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/05/new-downtown-los-angeles-by-debbie-kim/ 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 ... http://skidrowdude.com/2008/05/03/street-view-added-to-filming-map/