Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
How’d He Do That?
So a couple days ago I decided to have some e-fun for Halloween. Specifically, I built a mock L.A. Times web page with a news feature headlined “Legend of the haunted Griffith Park picnic table” that I posted and linked to from Blogging.la:
[click here to go to the complete story]
It’s not my first time with […]
5 Comments » - Posted in make believe, mischief, writing, internet by Will
Monday, October 30th, 2006
One Is Fun, But Two In A Row Is A Streak, Baby!
Two words: Raiders Football.
[sound of crickets chirping]
Wow, do I know how to clear a blog or what!?
On those rare occasions I find people willing and eager to discuss football, I’m usually asked what my fave team is and then they follow up wondering how I can still love the Silver & Black after they skipped […]
1 Comment » - Posted in sports by Will
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Carving Party
Susan and I aren’t frequent party givers… in fact the last time we had people over to the house for an organized thing was our post-wedding reception in June 2005. So when Susan said she wanted us to host a pumpkin carving party I was all for it, especially when she decided that the menu […]
No Comments » - Posted in gatherings by Will
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Dead Can Dance
Last year my sweetie and I experienced Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” celebration for the first time. For this year’s festivities we decked ourself out muertos-style.
Flickr photoset from the evening is here.
2 Comments » - Posted in gatherings, spirituality by Will
Friday, October 27th, 2006
Night & Day
At the request of reader Paul to show our backyard vista in the daytime I went out this morning and just before 8:30 a.m. snapped this shot of it from the same vantage point as the ones taken a couple nights ago and seen in my previous post:
In the daylight I was very pleasantly surprised […]
3 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Cleared For Landing… Or Take-Off
The owners of the property two doors north of us just unblocked our view from the backyard by cutting down two large trees from their front yard, leaving Sunset Boulevard looking like a runway for any flights of fancy I might wish to take:
[Larger sizes here and here]
3 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Charmed, I’m Sure
I’m having some because I’m a caffeine addict, but I certainly don’t need any coffee right now. The remnants of the adrenaline that rushed through my system at 6:17 this morning is enough to keep me w-i-d-e awake. That’s when The Phoenix suffered a spectacular blowout of its rear innertube. In and of itself a […]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Picture Perfect
When false accusations of child abuse and abandonment by my ex-wife led to things falling apart and I opted to quit fighting and instead completely remove myself from my daughter’s life in the summer of 2000 after receiving a letter from her in which she was prompted to write horrible and hateful things to me, […]
3 Comments » - Posted in family, history by Will
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Don’t Ride Angry
Sent out another batch of rezooms to another batch of companies looking for people half as talented and three times as cheap as I am — that’s the way to look at it, eh? I’m sure I’ll find the ideal job that way! Then I got on my bike and headed out for Samy’s Camera […]
