"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 14th, 2011
IMG_0148, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. This fire escape is on the back of the old Advance/Rumely building in the West Bottoms. The link above is to a photograph of this same alley in 1951, after the big flood. And this is the same alley as of last year’s haunted house season. I was […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 12th, 2011
I took Ruby running in a shipping container wareyard today. She enjoyed splashing through the puddles and searching for rats, and I enjoyed the disorienting scenery. It felt like I was cavorting in a giant’s LEGO village. This looks like a tight fit, but I could easily ride my bicycle through this passageway. It is […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Sep 9th, 2010
My favorite abandoned house in Kansas City is no more. It was demolished back in May. I’m kind of bummed. It was built in 1888. On the other hand, my second-favorite abandoned house: Is currently under rehabilitation, and it looks like whoever’s doing it is doing a nice job of it. I’m going back out […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Food & Snacks, Hair issues, Lists, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 29th, 2008
Because I skipped a few too many days of posting and now I have all sorts of random everything to get down. So. 1. I stayed home sick from work on Friday. I got this weird cold from Joel that seemed to go in reverse, starting with a nasty cough and winding up with stifling […]
Posted in biking, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Jan 7th, 2008
This past weekend was just insane as far as the weather went. It was somewhere in the 50s I think, and there was no excuse to be inside. Nor had I any desire to be inside and waste a minute of the warm weather. Riding in shirtsleeves in Kansas City in January is pretty much […]