Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Moment Of Discovery
Sometimes epiphanies can be found in the heart of the most trivial tediums, such as this morning as I was washing the petfood dishes after their breakfast. Certainly it is a simple task involving some hot water, a touch of soap, a scrub brush, some scrubbing. It is a chore I do in the morning [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in milestones, writing by Will
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Catching Up
Even if I have nothing of importance to say, I really dislike letting the blog stagnate, and rare is it that I go so many days without slapping something up — a photo or a flashback entry. Anything. So howsabout some bulletpoints that fill in the blanks and myabe look forward a bit:
Films watched: All [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in tidbits by Will
Friday, August 25th, 2006
What Lies Beneath
Early on into last night’s weekly bike boogie my crap pre-ride eating habits (or rather lack-of-eating habits) caught up with me and my blood/sugar level nosedived only a couple miles into the 17-miler that took us throught the dankiest and stankiest parts of Vernon, Maywood, and other parts previously unexplored. Plus I was an idiot [...]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Yep We’re Gentrifyin’
Could Susan and I have been painted with a more precise brush? In a sidebar to David Zanhiser’s reportedly exhaustive and outstanding piece on gentrification in this week’s L.A. Weekly (I’ve yet to read it) we get pegged on of all things… subtrim:
Subtrim.When a newly purchased house gets painted, some exacting buyers go the extra [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
The Joys Of Webcamming
I got my hair cut today. Other than come home and rinse it out, I had no idea how severely short it now is until I saw an older webcam snap from earlier today. So I promptly assumed as similar a post and did a before-and after:
Feels about five pounds lighter.
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
It’s Not Just A Walk It’s An Adventure
This past Monday I started taking Ranger out for short walks — end of the block and back jobs — just to begin getting her acclimated to both the neighborhood and life on the leash. She dealt with both pretty well, but I noticed practically right away that she’s very skitish when it comes to [...]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Well Lookee What I Found!
Despite my efforts I could uncover neither the original column nor the photograph assignment referenced in the previous post.
But I did find this long-lost relic of me and Sparkletts Water making friends in Atwater Village on my route back in 1990, taken by a customer of mine on Brunswick just south of Los Feliz Boulevard:
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Best Of The Worst
With the pending release of a new video game called Bad Day L.A. in which the city gets tsunami’d, earthquaked, meteor’d along with other natural and unnatural disasters, Mack Reed over at L.A. Voice is echoing L.A. City Nerd in wondering and cataloguing what’s perhaps the definitive worst day in L.A.’s history.
From my perspective I’d [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in los angeles, recollections by Will
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
The Great Escaper
I’ve been feeling guilty about Buster the tortoise who hasn’t gotten near enough porch/outdoor time this summer. What with our vacation and now painting the house (and the fact that frankly Buster’s low-maintenance aspects make it easy to forget about her) she just hasn’t gotten out and about all that often of late.
So yesterday in [...]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Radio Killed The Radio Star
There’s been a lot of anger and frustration among country-western music fans over the sudden switch of their flagship station KZLA last week to a more contemporary urban dance music format. Even though I’ve never once in my life listened to the station I can certainly feel their pain and relate to their cries of [...]
