Archive for March, 2006
Saturday, March 18th, 2006
First For Everything
As elaborated in the previous post this’ll be my 13th consecutive month of March involved with the L.A. Marathon either on foot (1994), on wheels (1995-2005), or both (2003 and 2005). Yet in all those years — especially the ones that I’ve only biked — I’ve always driven myself to the start vicinity, dealt with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, March 17th, 2006
I’m Not The Marathon’s Bitch (At Least Not This Year)
(Flagrantly cross-posted from Blogging.la)
A couple hours ago I was standing in the L.A. Convention Center’s west hall amidst the hustle and bustle of the Quality of Life Expo. I’d just picked up my bib for Sunday’s Acura L.A. Bike Tour and I was wandering the exhibitors area stuffing whatever freebies there were — nuts, [...]
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In Griffith Park…
Managed to get this beauty (and its shadow) in frame as it fluttered by where Shadow and I sat atop Mt. Hollywood earlier today. Larger version here.
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Smooooooooooooth
Since last month’s inaugural blender experimentation with what I’ve come to call my “Everything But The Kitchen Sink” smoothie (Jamba Juice I am not), I’ve attempted to refine the contents of my concoctions to come up with fruits that complement each other. It may seem like a no-brainer that grapefruit and banana or apple and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in food, gadgets, health by Will
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
I Heart GarageBand
I finally got goofing with Apple’s GarageBand application in the initial hope of creating an inaugural podcast… but at this microcosm of my life I find I have nothing to say, important or otherwise. So instead I started playing around with the program’s rich melody creation features and if I’m not careful I could become [...]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Dog Day Afternoon
Walking back from Echo Park Lake down Sunset with Shadow I found this gorgeous pitbull placidly holding down the backseat of its fort as we moved past, and I had to come back and grab a snap of him in all his huge-headed majesty:
The uncropped, larger version is here.
No Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
March Of The Penguin Suit
It was a couple weeks ago when I expressed my abject ecstacy at trying on what I refered to as “The Pants” — the pair that I’d chosen to not to donate and thus keep around as a reminder of what I used to fit into during my last bout with thinner-ness — and they [...]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Happy Birthday, Rodger!
Last night I got to do two things I’ve been wanting to do for awhile now: Have a drink at the historic Tam O’ Shanter in Atwater Village and meet Rodger “House” Jacobs of 8763 Wonderland who invited me there to help ring in his new year. I’d been an occasional visitor to his blog [...]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Goin’ Down
Sunday means weigh-in day. And hot damn if the scale didn’t register another five-pound drop putting me only five away from my first stage goal. If you’d told me I’d be removing 25 pounds in a mere nine weeks I woulda laughed with length and loudness. As I stand now at…
235
…the only component my laughter [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in health by Will
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
‘Tween Scenes
So yesterday I braved the bad weather and cowered from my common sense and included myself in the two-year birthday celebration for the Midnight Ridazz. I was joined by Mack Reed of L.A. Voice and we both went the route’s 12.6-mile distance ultimately soaked to the skin and borderline frostbitten in places but without insult [...]
