Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Tonight We Dine At Applebees!
I was pleased a couple days ago to find a comment to my post on Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction from my cross-country friend Timothy Hughes who was enthused to find what’s become a rare film review from me, and expressed interest in hearing what I might have to say about 300, which Susan and I saw a couple weeks ago […]
4 Comments » - Posted in movies by Will
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Frontyard Flower
I may not have time to stop and smell the flowers whenever I want but I can always spare a second and snap their picture (click image to go big):
I love the wrinkled-paper look of the delicate petals and I don’t care who knows it.
1 Comment » - Posted in nature by Will
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Frequent Flier Smiles
Tony Pierce just posted on LAist about photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter being on a flight to Miami and another passenger onboard just happened to be Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who obliged the popular shutterbug by posing for a couple pix (here and here).
Wow. One could come up with several reasons why Villaraigosa’s smile is so fake (tired, […]
No Comments » - Posted in photography, politics by Will
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Me & Monty II
My ballpoint pen of choice for some 20 years has been the Montblanc Meisterstuck. I don’t mean I load up on pallets of them every five years, like so many disposable Bics. I mean that in 20 years this is the pen I’ve carried with me and used for writing purposes great and small. Yes, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in history by Will
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
On The Internut No Proof Is Incontrovertible
You knew it was inevitable that someone would take an issue, right? In this case it was some guy whose YouTube screenname is Dink65. And his issue is with the post I made there of a short clip you might have watched of my first attempt up Fargo Street this past Sunday. In the video […]
No Comments » - Posted in updated, biking, internet by Will
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
The Real Will Ferrell Just Stood Up
Since I just mini-ranted about 24 in my previous post, I want to take part of my lunch hour to mini-rave about the absolutely marvelous Stranger Than Fiction that apparently came and went last year just long enough for me to read a brief good review in Entertainment Weekly or the L.A. Weekly and put it on my Netflix […]
5 Comments » - Posted in movies by Will
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
“24″ Rhymes With Bore
At the risk of damaging any tenuous perception that I have an intellect, my must-see-TV list consists of the following programs:
24
American Idol
Lost
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
Survivor
Susan and I were both into Heroes pretty diligently, but then it went on a lengthy mid-season hiatus around Christmas only to come back rather sluggishly which waned my enthusiasm big time and I missed the […]
No Comments » - Posted in television by Will
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Of Hills & Goodbyes
Agh. Fact is I was psyched out before I even left the house to bike over to the Fargo Street Hill Climb. I was breathing hard and adrenalating right here by my desk. Sure, there were a lot of reasons why I should succeed: I was lighter and in better condition than when I attempted […]
5 Comments » - Posted in gatherings, biking by Will
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Treemail
To: thetree@nextdoor.com
From: wildbell@gmail.com
Subject: Inquiring neighbors wanna know…
What gives, eh? It’s spring. Not fall. Not winter. SPRING. Please make a note of it, and stop with the excessive shedding, will ya!? The gardeners cleaned up after you Friday of last week and look (below and clickable) at what I had to sweep up today eight days […]
No Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Adrenalinity
Got two things cooking this weekend – both on Sunday actually — that are intense enough so that whenever I so much as glance at them mentally I’m rewarded with strong shots of adrenaline jetting into my system giving me that combination fight/flee excited/terrified feeling.
The first is the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb, one of the most unique cycling events in the entire […]
