BURGER SCOOT

  • Fearless

    I was sitting in a café when I saw her This was not the first time–I had no idea it would be the last. She was on her bike; sitting up straight! Gliding through the plaza. I gasped as she rode through the rushing crowd–effortlessly. She was too graceful to fall. Her hair was a Read more

  • My First Ride & My Last Ride on a Jump Bike

    My First Ride & My Last Ride on a Jump Bike

    I have had some bad luck lately when it comes to commuting vehicles. My bicycle has been in the shop for two weeks with many problems to be resolved including replacing parts the shop does not have in stock. I made the fateful decision to surrender it to the shop thinking that I would always Read more

  • An Unqualified Cupping of Port of Mokha’s Al-Jabel

    I like coffee. I probably average about two to three cups a day. I’m not a connoisseur: my tastes are wide-ranging–I’m not too picky. I prefer higher quality beans prepared expertly at high-end coffee houses, but I don’t mind drinking my wife and son’s more common beans from Peet’s or Peerless. The brewing systems are Read more

  • Burritos Burgers and Booze

    My friend and fellow blogger Chip told me as we were driving out of Downtown Sacramento last Wednesday night that the taco stand we were passing served his favorite hamburger. I looked at the sign as we drove by, Taqueria Jalisco. His statement and the stand’s name were incongruent. Did he mean his favorite Torta? Read more

  • Catching up with some of Nicholas Gurewitch’s work

    I like political cartoons. My favorites come from artists like Dwayne Booth aka Mr. Fish, The Sacramento Bee’s award-winning Jack Ohman, and Gary Trudeau’s syndicated Doonsbury. I also enjoy the animated cartoons by Mark Fiore. Terrific stuff! I guess that makes me a political (cartoon) junkie, though I do read Scott Adams’ syndicated Dilbert on Sundays. I Read more

  • Faster reading than CliffNotes!

    In high school, I fell in love with CliffNotes, not because it helped me read the classics. Ha! Right! I read the CliffNotes on our assigned readings and skipped the books. Needless to say, I did not do well in my English classes. Here’s another solution. Wrong Hands illustrator John Atkinson blends cartoons, literature, and Read more