Because I love living in Los Angeles, and because many of my loyal readers are not here to share it with me, I’ve decided to start a regular section called “Seen in L.A.”

Every day I see something …. amusing. Or gruesome. Or fascinating. So every once in a while I’ll post a short list of recent observations of Los Angeles. Some of these things are just interesting, and some of them are quintessentially ‘L.A.’

This is the installment from the last week or so.

enjoy.

(note: All of these are quite true.)

(note #2: all of these were observed within the city block of my place of business, generally on my walk to or from my car)

An orange orange Vespa parked on the sidewalk.

A flock (gaggle?) of (presumably domesticated) geese roaming around the front yard of a $1 million (ish) house.

Big spike in visible Laker flags/banners/balloons after Game 3 win.

32-year-old grad student complaining about the annoying “20-somethings” while discussing the merits of “Texas Chain-Saw Massacre.”

A very tanned man talking about his orange and carrot juice that he has taken to drinking now that he’s back from Fiji.

2 homeless men lying on the sidewalk. Sleeping. In the middle of the afternoon. Completely across the sidewalk, so pedestrians had to practically walk in the gutter to get around them. And a security guard (from my building) walks up to them, appears to say nothing but look at them, and walk away.

An actor shopping at the Ralph’s on the corner that I frequent. Happily going about his business without anyone bothering him, staring or pointing.

A biker ‘flipping the bird’ to a car who turned left during a yellow light right in front of him. Of course disregarding the fact that he rode his bike through a yellow/red light.

A middle-aged, paunchy, balding (with a come-over) pasty white man, in tight black pants. And a white button-down shirt. Unbuttoned to his belt. Running for the bus.