Archive for December, 2006
Friday, December 15th, 2006
A Day Of Discovery
So I’ll shed my usual coating of protective caution and say that I think I rocked the second-round interview for the content manager gig in Hollywood that I’m vying for. If I’m wrong then so be it, but I think I hit it off with the marketing director who struck me as a cool guy [...]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Message For You Sir!
Get home from a long day to my baby who welcomed me with open arms and dogs that were happy to see me and there was a package in the mail that Susan couldn’t wait for me to open. Inside was a very pleasant surprise:
A bird of our very own — from the “Bird Man” [...]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Nothing If Not Adaptable
Day before yesterday I was looking at the approaching anniversary of my 13th straight month away from fulltime employment. Yesterday, after a sluggish commute across town to the city of El Segundo and first submitting to a drug screen and a battery of paperwork and information, I took a seat — albeit a short-term one [...]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
From Nothin’ To Something
And just like that I’m about to re-enter the realm of the gainfully employed. Granted, it’s a temporary copy-editing gig with a four-to-six week window, but it is a gig nonetheless and one for which I’m tremendously grateful — and the finite time frame makes the 20-mile commute through the thick of the city that [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in commerce by Will
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Credit Where It’s Due
In mentioning that I got mentioned in Sunday’s L.A. Times I rhetorically asked if it was greedy of me to want credit for the photo of mine used to illustrate the item. Yesterday I decided it wasn’t and wrote the Times’ readers’ representative:
I was initially inclined not to make an inquiry because I appreciated the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in photography by Will
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Want Something Done Get Someone Else To Do It
An email came in yesterday from an editor at one of the local TV station’s news outfits. It salutated with “Hello Mr. Bell,” but other than that ringing error it was a very pleasant note stating that the writer and some colleagues read and enjoyed my Blogging.la interview with the anonymous artist I call the [...]
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
Name Game
I don’t often venture this blog’s commentary/observations into the international realm often, and I know the spelling is different and all, but could the last name of Iraq’s president — Talabani — be any more ironic?
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
The L.A. Times Gives Me Some Love
Word got back via Andrew at Liquid Premium, who emailed me with the news that the L.A. Times shined a light on my interview on Blogging.la this past week with the unknown artist responsible for the growing number of wooden birds hanging from wires over intersections throughout the city (and beyond in Santa Barbara, San [...]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Punks Don’t Rawk
Been meaning to blog about a slice-o-life snapshot I encountered Friday afternoon coming back from grocery getting at the Vons at Virgil and Sunset just south of Los Feliz Village. After exiting the market’s parking lot I headed south on Virgil to Fountain where I got in the left turn lane and waited for the [...]
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Playing Hardball
I’ve had checking and Visa accounts with BofA going back to 2000 or 2001. I’ve heard horror stories about how horrible such a huge banking institution can foul up, but with me I’ve had no complaints. I’ve had to utilize my overdraft protection on occasion, but I’ve never been late with a credit card payment. [...]
