A couple of months back, I went on a bike ride a long the LA River. Being from Southern California, the LA River has always been part of my life. When I was little and riding in the back seat of my parent's car, I would dream of what it would be like to live in the marsh of the LA River. I figured out how I would set up my house and how I would get in and out of the river. I obviously grew out of that dream but riding a long the bike path was like a re-living my days riding in the back seat when you actually paid attention to details of what was going on in the world around you.




When seeing spots like the one to the left this made me remember my childhood dream to live in the LA River. Then I saw the amount of trash like the picture below and remembered how it might be a lil gross to live in the LA River.

http://lariverrailroads.com/lariver_model_1.html

I was a little sad that the cat faces were not painted on the iron cast drainage covers, like in the photo below, which was a feature that I always remembered as a child

What surprised me the most was the amount of different birds that I saw. I witnessed:

Gulls

White Pelicans

&

Cormorants

The LA River will always hold a special place in my heart and I suggest the bike ride to anyone who likes to enjoy the natural things that LA can offer. 

The Seed has been planted... the blog is going to start up again.

The Seed (2.0) by The Roots ft. Cody ChestnuTT

On one sickly evening, I stumbled upon the new Dr. SEUSS'S THE LORAX on Netflix. Having read the book to many groups of children attempting to teach sustainability, I was curious to see how Hollywood approached creating a movie to a beloved book. Here is a quick opinion:

Many of the core quotes and ideas of sustainability were lost in musical numbers, slapstick comedy bits and the storyline surrounding the fact that the only reason the boy is talking to the Once-ler to find out about the Truffula Trees, is to impress an older girl.

The Once-ler character is made out to be a good guy in the movie as well. He is given a face  and is holly-go-lightly throughout the entire movie.  He didn't mean to cut down the Truffula Trees, it just happened, and the Lorax was more a friend to him then a foe. 

In the end, the movie uses the book as a baseline and created something else out of it, which is totally fine but at the same time, Hollywood still could have stuck with the core ideas that makes the book, The Lorax, so special and maybe have added cryptic messages about living sustainably. That is what I would have done at least...

Blog that I found after I wrote this entry, happens to explain many of my ideas further, (They also produced this image): 

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/hammerandthump/the-lorax-notes-from-a-seuss-icide/

I apologize for being a bad blogger the past couple months... I have been living on an island with limited internet so blogging got pushed to the wayside.

Now that I am back with stronger internet expect more blogging to come upon you!

With that being said, I leave you with a picture of some really old mayonnaise (my guess 50 years old) that I found while hiking on the island. 

What is this?

 

Just Crazy Kites!

Throwback of the Moment

Don't remember the first moment I heard this song but growing up, I would have it stuck in my head periodically. Finally heard it for the first time in a long time on the radio last night. 

1,2,3,4 (Sumpin' New)- Coolio (1995)

I was a happy camper!

I went to a college party this past weekend. Was talking to a senior at this particular university. I told him how old I was, 24, he told me that I was "like, twice his age." 

So either he was a really young senior in college, or he was trying to emphasize the fact that I shouldn't have been there.

 Thanks man!

P.S. As we continued talking, I was emphasizing something I was saying with my hands and he proceeded to take my drink and started to drink it. I then asked him what he was doing, his response was that he thought I was offering it to him. Yea... after that, I knew I wasn't supposed to be in college anymore and let him finish off the drink.