Well, we’re back from our boomerang trip across to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The traveling was easy and uneventful and on-time and while we were there we enjoyed an excellent unconventional “southern boil” feast for Thanksgiving with Susan’s folks who are within a stonecrab’s throw of a magnificent stretch of white sand and surf that’s …
Susan and I are packed up and ready to head out waaaaaaay early Wednesday (6 a.m. flight) for a good old-fashioned “southern boil” Thanksgiving with her folks in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Be back Friday.
Ranger and I had our afternoon backyard fetch caught on tape.
Putting aside that it’s not even “officially” the holiday season yet, and also putting aside that every other night of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Festival of Lights cyclists are categorically banned from enjoying the public light show, last night was the one-night-only bone thrown by LADWP and city officials to us …
So yesterday Susan and I head downtown to the Laemmle theaters on Fig north of Fourth to catch a matinee of “Casino Royale.” Unaccustomed to such gridlock-less convenience, we found ourselves with more than a half-hour before showtime and so went for a brief exploration of the Marriott Hotel, which sits atop the subterranean theaterplex. …
Above in my hands I hold a book I’ve had in my possession for more than seven years. Scanning my bookshelf a few days ago for something new to read — in English— I spied it jammed in between a biography of Theodore Roosevelt and a book of poetry and essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson …
I won’t go into the reasons behind my long-distance fanaticism other than it was a combination of my mother being an alum and my unconditional love of Coach Bear Bryant that made me a University of Alabama football fan from an early age, and that explains why if there’s one game each football season you …