Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Cartoon Tuesday

Sometimes it’s easier to make your point with a joke rather than a lecture. Here at Streetsblog, we spend a lot of time bemoaning the the urban design that has pushed people indoors and into cars.  But this video, which reader Erik Griswold tells me is a great “homage” to documentary film-maker Ken Burns, uses […]

Earlier this year, I saw this comic at Salon about what would happen if other species embraced sprawl development, especially into other animals’ habitat, in the same way that humans do.  This comic came back to mind after the SCAG Board decided to choose sprawl development over a chance to make history and clean our […]

This comic is one of many on BP’s disaster available at U.S. News and World Report. There have been so many depressing plots surrounding the ongoing horror story unfolding at Deepwater Horizon.  It’s sort of a "pick your poison" buffet catastrophe: helpless animals coated in oil,  the universal inability to figure out a way to […]

A couple of weeks ago, Brad Aaron posted a gem of a video by Mark Fiore about aliens landing on earth and getting confused by our transportation system.  Seriously?  We run our vehicles on dinosaur juice? It turns out the theme of confused aliens and our transportation system isn’t a new one.  Via Carter Rubin […]

Comic: Yehuda Moon and Kickstand Cycling In honor of Bike to Work Week in Los Angeles, I thought I would bring back "Cartoon Tuesday" with a favorite bicycling comic.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a comic that amused as much as this drawing on the wall of Gavin Newsom’s communications office, so I was […]

Before I sign out for the holidays, I wanted to give you some homework to help me out.  One thing that Sammy responds to when we’re trying to get him to sleep is singing.  Being a good Streetsblogger, I’m trying to give him as many songs about transit or biking as possible.  I haven’t found […]