May 2010
1 post
I Saw A Guy...
Shoot up yesterday on the train. A real scrappy looking kid with wild, electric black eyes, lank, matted hair, dirty and skinny as a rail. He asked me the time really politely. I told him it was 6:50. He thanked me and then proceeded to pull his filthy jacket over him like a tent and go to work with his gear. Took me back to my days living in San Francisco where I would see people do that all the...
April 2010
2 posts
A Man Got on the Train Today and Gave Me...
A little lapel pin cross wrapped up in a paper package and then walked away. I looked down at it and noticed some text on the front of the package. It read, “The Light of this Cross will Keep Jesus With You Always.” It had a tiny little fake diamond where the two parts of the cross meet. I thought, how nice, that guy just gives little crosses away to people. I flipped it over in my...
I Saved A Life
It was an eventful ride today on the Blue line. It started with a delay on my connection from the Red Line that forced me to wait underground at the MacArthur Park station for about 30 minutes. I spent most of this time shoulder to shoulder with a man carrying two giants filthy stuffed animal rabbits, one under each arm. He kept hissing in my ear, “You don’t even know the difference...
March 2010
9 posts
Wolf
This morning on the Blue Line, somewhere south of the Slauson stop I’m fairly certain I saw a fully mature timber wolf standing alone in the knee-high weeds of an abandoned parking lot. It was just staring at the train as it passed. I swear to god our eyes met for a few seconds, ice-blue, and then it broke off, wheeled around and loped off at an easy trot for the back of the lot.
What a...
There's a Neighborhood Block Along the Blue...
Where all the houses still have Christmas decorations. Nowhere else. Just this one block, fully decked out…for Christmas. Lights, Santas on the roof, snowmen, wreaths on doors. Since it’s April, this block is very curious to me. Very curious indeed.
Gangster
After riding the blue line for a while I think I have a pretty good idea of which different gangs claim territory along the line. Now I’m no expert, so don’t get all beanie weanie if your in a gang and also a big fan of this blog and I leave your gang off the list. All I can say is that you should probably get busy with the spray paint can and make your gang a little more recognizable...
Don't Run For Trains
I admit it. I was running for a train. I know the signs tell you that safe Metro riders never run for trains, but those people’s parents probably aren’t visiting from the Midwest and they probably don’t have to get two days of work done by noon when they’re supposed to meet those parents to show them the splendors of LA. Anyway, while I was running my sunglasses flew off...
Big Excitement on the Blue Line
So I started riding the Metro Blue Line to and from work each day about two months ago. In this time I’ve heard and seen some pretty interesting things. Take this morning for example: train was stopped for a while at the Wilmington Imperial platform with the doors open. I was a little spaced out, thinking about what my day had in store for me before I realized that we weren’t moving....
