Archive for July, 2006
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Sa-wing Baby!
I am predisposed to not act my age when the mood strikes me, which is probably too often but what the hell. Thus, today after lunch at the Santa Monica Pier to beat the heat for a bit we went walking on the sand and found a deserted swing set that I immediately set to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in outdoors by Will
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Comment Dites-Vous Le ‘Morceau De Merde’ En Français?
I’ve proven to myself again that any obscure film I place in my Netflix queue has a decent probability of sucking large. In this case it is with a 2005 gem from froggyland called Caché.
The problem is, I scan a lot of capsulated movie reviews be they online or in print in the various alternative [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in movies by Will
Friday, July 21st, 2006
Putting the “Ad” In “Bad”
I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t occur to me that I’d been long-time lately low on stuff to rant about. Usually I can count on reading or seeing something — a high percentage of it’s tremendously trivial — that sets me off. Whatever the trigger, maybe I’ll write a letter to the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in ads, rants by Will
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
It’s All In The Socks
I got an L.A. Marathon merchandising email in my inbox today. They’ve finally stopped offering me ultra-discounted crap from the last marathon four months ago and they’re finally focusing on next year:
Time for me to do the same.
My marathon history in a nutshell — no, let me go even one better: bullet points! Little opportunity [...]
No Comments » - Posted in sports by Will
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
PupCam Is Live
Cybele’s wish is my command:
webcam page
3 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Pupdate No. 1
Amazing how time flies when you’re having puppies. Has it really already been more than a week since Susan and I found them in the desert off Highway 163 in Utah?
Seems like yesterday… but on the flipside, has it only been eight days? In a lot of ways it seems much longer. Especially since they’ve [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Stormy Weather
Though we trotted the video camera around with us throughout the entire vacation, oddly I ended up only using it twice, once to capture aspects of the storm that deluged us while we were in Arches National Park and once to catch some condors flying waaaaaay off in the distance when we were in Vermilion [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in travel, weather by Will
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
People In Stone Houses Should Never Throw Glass
So a few miles away from the Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River on the Vermilion Cliffs Highway (No. 89A) in Arizona and practically right next door to the Cliff Dweller Lodge Susan and I stayed in with the pups that first night, we were enthralled not only by a bevy of balanced rocks along [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in travel by Will
Monday, July 17th, 2006
Kickin’ It Arches Style
In between tending to the pups today I’ve been going through the 45,026,007,235 vacation photos Susan and I took and this one that Susan snapped of me takin’ her easy July 10 in the smaller of the two portals that make up Partition Arch in Utah’s Arches National Park is near the top of my [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in travel by Will
Monday, July 17th, 2006
A Pair Of Angels
Another from the “One Should Never Fail To Acknowledge Kindness” file… or perhaps the “One Should Never Fail To Make Others Never Fail To Recognize Kindness” file:
July 17, 2006
Grand Canyon National Park
Attn: Joe Alston, Superintendent
P.O. Box 129
Grand Canyon, AZ 86023
Dear Superintendent Alston,
As part of a 4,500-mile, 16-day vacation that brought us from [...]
