Posts tagged “Los Angeles”

Pinot Bistro

You’ll have to trust me and just ignore what you read elsewhere. Pinot Bistro sucks.

Windy City

It is so windy today that it’s blogworthy. It’s crazy windy. Sixty and seventy mile per hour gusts windy. Shaking the windows windy.It’s very odd. Trees are actually being felled. One right here in Studio City.

Chased by a Boeing Helicopter

A rather odd thing happened to me on my way to the theater Friday night. I was chased by a helicopter. Yes. I know that sounds odd. Imagine – just for a second – how odd it would feel to drive several miles with a helicopter about two car lengths behind you and only about

Weather

It rained in Los Angeles today. Rain? <Princess Bride>Inconceivable!</Princess Bride> An inch of rain in Los Angeles will cause flooding. I grew up in Daytona Beach and spent the 90s in Gainesville, Fl. Rain was not unusual. In Daytona it rained like clockwork from 3 to 4 pm pretty much every day for eight or

Urban Myths

From the “Frequently Asked Questions” page at the California Highway Patrol web site: I have heard that some gangs are initiating new members by driving with their headlights off and when people flash their lights at them, they must shoot the drivers of the cars who do this. Is this true? Ha!

Resolve

Jiminy Cricket! Here it is, the #3 of January, and I’ve yet to make any resolutions! Obviously there is a ball and I’ve got to get on it, and soon. I’ll resolve some things as quickly as I can. Resolution #1: Make resolutions #4 – 10. Resolution #2: Make no more U-turns on Ventura when

The Chair

Looking for real people to use your general Pop Culture knowledge to be on new ABC game show “The Chair”. This innovative new series offers the ultimate test in self-control. We’ll attach a player to a heart rate monitor and ask him/her general interest questions. If he/she can answer correctly without his/her base heart rate

Wow! I’m sitting here in LA with ESPN‘s Best of Sportscenter on the TV and I just saw Steve Spurrier wish all the armed forces a Merry Christmas. That was cool.

Bandits!

Bandits! 12 o’clock! I am apparently under attack. A full-blown herd of raccoons has decided that the most fun thing to do at 1:30 am is scare the living bejesus out of me. Out of nowhere I heard what sounded like some maniac trying to break into the house. I, of course, freaked. Was there

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.