Archive for August, 2006
Sunday, August 20th, 2006
I’m Finished Venting
Back in May I posted about having an inspector call to examine what turned out to be the unapprovable installation of the venting pipes leading from the new water heaters put in earlier that month. I had grand plans of making it a DIY job instead of attempting to get the negligent plumbing company in [...]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
No Bull
So in this case, my shaky practice of adding unknown films to my Netflix list based on some positive reviews paid off. Susan and I spun The Matador last night. Starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis as Kinnear’s wife the film came and went in 2005 and it’s too bad because it [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in movies by Will
Friday, August 18th, 2006
Quick Hit: Justice Fatigue
In reading the story of the suspect arrested in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case in yesterday’s L.A. Times I turn to the inside and find a picture of a woman placing a note at the Georgia burial place of JonBenet’s mom Patsy (who died in June of this year from ovarian cancer). The note reportedly [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in idiots by Will
Friday, August 18th, 2006
A Cool Thousand
With tonight’s edition of our weekly Thursday evening downtowner ride, my odomoter clicked passed 1,000 miles for this year. No way will I top my record year of 2,644 registered in 2003 (which was made up mostly of all the training for and riding of my 475-mile trek from San Francisco to Santa Clarita), but [...]
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Doom Unto Others
Tuesday afternoon I get on my bike and roll over to Samy’s Camera on Fairfax because I’ve been long overdue in replinishing various lens caps and covers and such that have been since sacrificed to the lens cap gods and gone for some time. On my list is a 58mm cover for the big [...]
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
Oops I Did It Again
Those of long-suffering readers know that when an incident such as yesterday’s nearby noisemakers transpires I’m pretty much entirely incapable of not stepping to the trangressors with some sort of written response:
August 14, 2006
To: Those responsible for the noise yesterday
I can’t and won’t speak for my fellow neighbors who live even closer to you, [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood, rants by Will
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Putting The “Ca-Ca” in Cacophony
Here we go. Dogs get fleas. I get neighbors. More specifically rowdy craptastic decibel-loving punktard jackholes who repeatedly demonstrate their rank ability to disrespect anything but their own selfishly skewed perception of themselves at the centers of their own fucked up universes. This time I happen to be two houses south of that center.
It’s apparently [...]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2006
In Lieu Of Being Redundant…
Rather than cross-post it all over again here, let me just point you to my entry today on Blogging.la, which elaborates all about me and Daryl Hannah and last night’s Midnight Ridazz bike ride.
Plus here’s a shot my friend and fellow IAAL•MAF’er Stephen Roullier snapped of me repairing a flat I got before the ride:
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
iShouldn’t Have But iDid
Since the word count on my last freelance gig generated me a few additional ducats, iRewarded myself with an iPod Shuffle and the wonder is what took me so long. Part of the reason is that recently they went from above a hundie down to around sixty bucks. The other part is that it’s not [...]
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Miles ‘N Miles
Well our weekly IAAL•MAF Thursday evening downtowner ride was a rousing success. By rousing I mean that with my having dubbed it the “Trespassers Ride” and routed the thing over 14.5 miles with the goal to travel unauthorized upon a distinct variety of landmarks all around the civic center, we succeeded in getting yelled “No [...]
