Mark Langton is Mr. Mountain Bike About 40 aspiring cyclists spread around the parking lot at Malibu Creek State Park, each riding a bike in tiny circles, first left, then right. Theyr'e so focused on mastering the task that they don't quite realize how outlandish they look until a passterby leans out his car window, wags his thumb, and … Continue »
Happy New Year
Close your eyes and you're in Bangkok: The air is filled with the lyrical sounds of the Thai language and with the aromas of barbecuing satay. In fact, you're at the Songkran Festival at North Hollywood's Wat Thai temple. Songkran, the Thai New Year, is officially celebrated every April 13. "It's a day of gratitude and love, and a day for family … Continue »
How Bill Gates Cured My PMS
The familiar list of PMS symptoms we?ve all seen ? tension, irritability, moodiness, depression, etc. ? never includes what for me is PMS?s most difficult symptom: myopia. I don?t mean myopia in the ophthalmic sense, but rather the shortsightedness that makes it impossible to see that your tension, irritability, moodiness and depression are being … Continue »
It's In The Bag
Nations from South Africa to Ireland are banning or taxing plastic sacks. The film American Beauty, which features a long, poetic clip of a plastic bag swirling on an eddy of air, snagged five Academy Awards, yet I for one still find it hard to think of plastic bags as things of beauty. But as a product -- as something created and then unleashed … Continue »
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