Archive for December, 2006
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
So Far Yet So Close
As the year progressed and rolled with The Phoenix more and more I found myself harboring stronger delusions of posting a 2,000-mile cycling year — my first since 2003.
Certainly my involvement with the notorious and fictional IAAL/MAF bike gang and the mileage I accrued from our regular ridings during the summer helped stoke my confidence, but then came the [...]
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Carroll Avenue Is A Buncha Humbugs
Susan was in the mood for some Christmas decoration. Candy Cane Lane in Woodland Hills was too far. So I suggeted Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, but Susan wasn’t up for that trek either so we wound up hopping nto the truck and making a meandering loop beginning with the above house one block over [...]
No Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Cinco Cosas Que Usted No Sabe Probablemente Sobre Mi
I wasn’t invited to this meme party but I saw Cybele was and so was Sean too so without explanation or my usually extrapolation I’m chronologically crashing this “Five Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Me” thing:
1) My nickname as a baby pretty much up until I hit double digits was “twig.”
2) Dad? At 5 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Memes, too much information by Will
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
To A “Tee”
Back last summer the CBS2 website put out a call for its visitors to “Show Us Your Tees,” and I obliged by taking a photo of my torso bearing my favorite shirt and in my email included the following background:
Attached please find my very favorite T-shirt, which qualifies not only from a local cultural perspective [...]
No Comments » - Posted in internet, travel by Will
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Lost & Found
So I made good on my plan to mass transport myself to work today, and got a slightly slow start, boarding the No. 4 MTA bus on Sunset Boulevard at 7:10 a.m. where I took the above snap of my $3 all-day ticket and then promptly lost it. Seriously, it just vanished after I put [...]
No Comments » - Posted in los angeles, travel by Will
Monday, December 18th, 2006
It’s Gonna Be A Pic ‘N Save Christmas!
At a place of my employment in another life long ago, there worked a fellow named Mark who I remember most for his exceptional and sarcastic humor. Back during that time there was a chain of stores now called Big Lots but then called Pic ‘N Save and the tagline that appeared on all their [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in happiness by Will
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
After The Fall
I made good on one of today’s resolution… certainly the most labor intensive one: the sweeping/raking of the back yard.
Here’s the last load, the third time I’d filled up this 30-gallon trash can:
That’s a lotta leaves — especially when considering that I did it all before five days ago.
One might read this and wonder why [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Love is…
…going up in there with nothing but a paper towel and a prayer to grab and pull undigested and unknown lengths of string stuck dangling out of the back end of your string-eating pup.
Today’s was about eight inches long. Lovely — and shut up! If I can do it without hurling you can read about [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Will
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
And For My Next Tricks
Now that we’re on the downhill side of the last month of 2006, it’s time for a no-muss no-fuss look at my resolves for the coming new year:
To conversate in Spanish
To comprehend Flash and build me a new-fangled website with it
To continue to pound the pavement of my neighborhoods and build a catalog of imagery
To [...]
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Conspicuous Consumerism
Not that this post will register even so much as a distant blip from the far outer banks of any of the great blog lakes, but one never knows what rings of what pebble dropped into its waters might resonate out far enough to register. So at the potential risk of this post getting [...]
