Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Density’s Team
Just gotta post this for the record and posterity, but last night’s Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals was one of the oddest most phenomenal I’ve ever seen. Traveling to the southwest with a dominating 5-0 record (and already being compared to the 1985 Super Bowl-winning Bears) to play [...]
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
The This Is My Life Ride
Sitting here this morning frustrated and depressed and wondering why, after what I felt was an excellent interview last week, I hadn’t gotten a call from the company with a job offer, I cracked open the Gmaps Pedometer website and started looking back over my life via the places where I’ve lived it.
Next thing I [...]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Silver Lake Gothic
9:57 a.m.
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
From Tragedy Comes Triumph
Today marks the 13th anniversary of a suicide in the valley that led me to begin this column for the Pierce College Roundup like this:
Evelyn Ruth Billings made a lot of people late to work October 12.
Because of her, the two right lanes of the southbound San Diego Freeway were closed for nearly three hours. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in writing by Will
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
New Pair ‘O Shoes
a perf’d front tire sidewall led to a herniating innertube that gave me back-to-back flats last Friday and almost kept me from participating in the awesome RIDE-Arc ride that evening. I managed to plug the hole the tube was poking through and enjoy the ride, but I knew that with more than 1,400 miles on [...]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Another One Bites The Dust
Growing up L.A. I don’t know if one ever gets accustomed to things going away, but I think a certain immunity against loss builds up over the long term. The Herald Examiner, C.C. Brown’s, Steve Garvey, Jay’s Jayburgers, the old Chinese Theater box office are just a few on my RIP list. All of them [...]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
See, I’m One Of Those People…
Not sure if the tragic story made it beyond Southern California, but a piece that’s gotten understandly heavy play this last couple days is the manhunt for the person wanted in the Sept. 24 murder of a 3-year-old girl. Authorities went wide and hard with their call for public assistance in his apprehension by stating [...]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
Got To The Getty Villa
A good day today. Last week I did my occasional check of the Getty website to find some not-easy-to-get tickets were available for today. So I got em and mom and I enjoyed a Columbus Day outing to the freshly redone oceanside landmark, which afterward included a stop at the nearby stretch beach she used [...]
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Hey! Beer! Man!
My friend and biking bud Steve today sent me a pic he snapped of me hoisting a thirsty-two ouncer of Kirin at Joy Mart in Little Tokyo after our regular Thursday night bike ride:
And dang was it good to the last drop.
By way of catching up, here are links to photo sets and videoclips of [...]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The Incident In The Kitchen With The Cilantro Dressing
Trader Joe’s sells this kickass lowfat cilantro dressing. I love cilantro dressing. So when I got home from my regular Wednesday night L.A. River/Griffith Park bike ride and went into the kitchen to whip up a turkey sammich with onion and lettuce so as to better await the much anticipated premiere of the new season [...]
