Archive for February, 2006
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
More Backyarcheology
I’m running late for a commitment, so I can’t expound on the day in my usual deathless way. It will have to suffice to say that i spent a good block of time in the backyard with the continuing reformation of the southeast corner into a potentially usable space.
Little did I know my excavations would [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in outdoors by Will
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Proof Positive
Looking through Stephen Roullier’s excellent collection of images from last Friday’s Midnight Ridazz ride, I found he got one of me in all my helmetcam’d, The Phoenix-straddling glory during a pitstop at the corner of Hyperion and Rowena near the beginning of the ride:
Turns out my overview post on the Bicycle Kitchen blog has “created” [...]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Not A Creature Was Stirring…
It all started when I found Pumpkin snoozing on the bed this afternoon with his nose burrowed between his two front paws as if counting out some subconscious game of hide and seek. Then it became a mini-project to showcase all our animals in their various states of repose:
Pumpkin the power napper. Ready or not [...]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Gonna Shoot The Whole Day Down
Sunday again. Weigh-in day again. I had a goal to lose three pounds given that I gained one last week.
Perhaps it didn’t help that Susan and I went to the Spanish Kitchen on La Cienega for dinner last night and I had not one, not two but three mojitos and for dinner their carne asada.
Agh, [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in health by Will
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Around The House
On the day after another successful yet not uneventful Midnight Ridazz (posted about here on the Bicycle Kitchen blog), it was all about hanging around the house and taking it easy, which meant kicking it in sun in a beachchair in the backyard with a Diet Dr. Pepper, my current book (Curse of the Narrows), [...]
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Spring Is Sproinged
In the midst of politely disagreeing with me and providing historical context as to why “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” is pretty cool in his book, my friend Timothy commented earlier that he and his family are about to batten down the hatches in New York for an impending blizzard.
I had to look up [...]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Daze Like These
Fair warning: this is a scattershot post of little consequence, flitting between whatever topics are bouncing around my brain until I get bored and go to bed.
• The Grammy Awards were on TV last night. I do not care for awards show, least of all the Grammies. I interact so little with whatever they’re calling [...]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Can You Dig This, Part II
So as explained in my earlier post today, after removing the big ass piece of metal from its landlocked position a few feet below the surface of the earth in the backyard, I threw in the towel because there didn’t seem much point in moving all the earth I’d removed.
So the right rear corner of [...]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Can You Dig It?
I’m too lazy to find them and link to them so it will have to suffice that I’ve written past posts on my backyarcheological discoveries. Glass vessels mainly that intrigue me not simply for any historical significance they lend to the backyard, but because they’re there… and have been for years.
Well, one of my latest [...]
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Long Rider
So I biked over and met Carolyn Kellogg, editor of LAist.com at the Britespot in Echo Park this morning. Susan and I met her at the wake for the Ambassador Hotel at the HMS Bounty last week and since we’re both unemployed and living livses of leisure (cough) she emailed an invite to get together [...]
