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ExperienceLA Blog Posts: USC 3-D Football, Running in LA, and Running Around LA

Butterfly by San Gabriel Valley Mission

Butterfly by San Gabriel Valley Mission

Just a couple of highlights from my real blogging/editing gig:
-Football in 3-D: USC v. OSU
(Side Note: Michele Miller’s Wonder Branding features my rant to her about ESPN’s surveying of womening at the event)
-Hit the LA Ground Running: City Sights and Sites
-Quentin Tarantion at Midnight Screening of “Inglourious Basterds”
-Summer Fun on the Cheap: A Case Study
-Dodgers: Fireworks and All you can Eat Seats

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Washington DC: Photos

Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial

Having completed my recent whirlwind trip to Washington DC, the following is a slideshow of my Flickr photos.  More about my trip later when I’ve had time to gather my thoughts.

I’m mostly doing it this way first because my brain is all scrambled.  I went to so many places!

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Tea Versus Coffee

I always say that there’s nothing like a good cup of coffee, but frankly the same can be said about tea. Unfortunately, I feel that I don’t get to say that as often about tea as I do coffee. I write this as I’m enjoying the Morraccan Mint Green Tea (pictured) at Teaism in Dupont Circle, Washington DC.

I can get a decent cup of coffee anywhere really and while the availability of tea increased at Starbucks and the selection of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is always nice, the tea place seems but a sad novelty.

Or perhaps my feeling of novelty right now is because I’m just basking in the moment, where I get to sit here and leisurely drink tea. Truth be told, while it’d be nice to leisurely drink a cup of coffee, it too is but a rare occasion.

Maybe it’s less about what the caffeinated beverage is and more the time and place to enjoy it.

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On FlyAway – Officially on Vacation

I am on the Flyaway bus to LAX. There’s something about getting on the Flyaway, headed toward the airport, that makes me feel like the true start of my travels – not the half-dazed subway ride with the equally half-dazed people headed to work at 6:30am (did you know there were that many people on the Red Line before 7?).

In any case, here I go on my first extended vacation in awhile. Previous long trips were conference/visitation trips with my Sister Cities familia, so without all those formalities (and all that fun and warm/fuzzy stuff), I guess you might say this is my first real vacation.

Destinations: Washington DC then New York!

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Curbed LA: LA’s First Subway Turnstiles To Debut in June

Turnstiles a la CurbedLACurbed LA: LA’s First Subway Turnstiles To Debut in June.

Hey – I’m all for this.  It makes me a more responsible rider and keeps people in check on buying the tickets.  Can we also get ride of this whole one-way line travel idea too?  First off, no one really follows it (I do, I have a monthly pass) or really understands it.  If you don’t have to go through another set of gates, I say that is a sign you’re ok!

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