Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Interesting Turn Of Events
So I hopped the No. 4 MTA bus at 7 a.m. and got down to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse for my jury duty with plenty of time to spare. Once the paperwork was completed and my juror badge was clipped to the collar of my jacket, it was all about filling the void of time […]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
The Deep End
Yes ladies and gentlemen, I’m off to jump into the jury pool — and actually wanting to! That’s right, I may very well be the only person there who doesn’t want to be anyplace else and actually wishes to get on a jury. I’ll personally be affronted — not relieved — if I am excused […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
Pick Me! Pick Me!
I feel like the nerd wanting desperately to be picked for a dodgeball team… except in this case it’s jury duty. Today should have been my first day to report to the Stanley Mosk courthouse on Hill Street downtown. I got my notification around Christmas and went through the motions to register.
Given my present unemployment […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Cue The Ennio Morricone Music
So it’s Sunday and that means my scale was a-callin’ me out for our regular weekly showdown. I did well this week, with three consecutive days consuming less than 2,000 calories, but still I stepped to my nemesis with a mixture of trepidation and fear as to what series of glowing red numbers would show […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Put This On Your Must See DVD List…
Murderball. What a phenomenal film. Watch it and try to whine about anything without feeling foolish.
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Feeling Bookish
There are times when I finish a book and go in search of my next read, either at the library or a bookstore, and I get this sinking feeling that I will never find anything worth reading ever again.
Thankfully, now is not one of those times. Whenever I finally finish Michael Crichton’s State Of Fear, […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
Dangling The Carrot Before The Calorie Geek
I’ve found something that’s been working for me in this the beginning phase of my quest to get, as I call it, “hipster thin.” It’s perhaps a reverse-psych way of doing business, but what I do is keep a candy bar on hand. Out in the open. Dangerously close.
I first tried it early into Week […]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
What Lies Beneath
A brief follow-up on yesterday’s post about L.A. history… I don’t know how I’ve missed this in the year and a half I’ve been living where I’m living, but walking the dog this morning we came to the corner of Occidental and Bellevue (as we have done many, many times) I saw for the first […]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Ghosts In The Air & History Underfoot
I don’t want to wax too nostalgisophical about Los Angeles, but the “city of angels” is an apt name for this place… in the sense that angels can be seen to signify change or reinvention via an anthropomorphed spirit or presence of something that once was real but is now more or less memory.
Being a […]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Anatomy Of A Ride
I finally set out mid-afternoon on the bike ride I’d promised myself, and it began rather inauspiciously with a jerkwad behind the wheel of a Chevy Suburban honking at me as I was crossing the intersection of Sunset and Benton because I was keeping him from making his left turn.
So I locked eyes with him […]
