Kevin Roderick is the creator and publisher of LA Observed. Before participating in a panel on whether Los Angeles or San Francisco runs California, he shared his morning routine and a few guilty pleasures.
Q. What time do you wake up?
A. I’m aiming for 7.
Q. What are the first three websites you read in the morning?
A. LA Observed, the Los Angeles Times, and the Poynter website.
Q. How do you procrastinate?
A. Almost all online-looking at websites I don’t have to look at. Or playing solitaire.
Q. What’s the last great dessert you ate?
A. The budino at Mozza-not very original I’m afraid.
Q. Do you read e-books?
A. Not yet.
Q. What’s your biggest pet peeve?
A. Inattentive drivers.
Q. What’s your greatest weakness?
A. Probably gluttony.
Q. What’s the biggest misconception people have about Los Angeles?
A. That it’s a single unified city and not a collection of hundreds of cultures.
Q. How are you different from who you were 10 years ago?
A. I think as a writer and a journalist I’m just broader in my outlook and approach to the world.
Q. When’s the last time you were in San Francisco?
A. This past summer I was driving down the 101, and we pointedly went around San Francisco to hit Berkeley and Oakland instead. Before that, two years earlier. But I like San Francisco-that’s not why we went around it.
Read more about the panel that Roderick participated in here.
*Photo by Aaron Salcido.