Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 12th, 2007
10 Percent Down, 90 To Go
Gotta tell ya, it was tough. What with the winds last night and this sinus infection, I was in and out of sleep all night. And when I finally woke up to get up (which I usually do somewhere in between 5 and 5:30 a.m.) the clock read a totally sprung-forward 6:21, which meant no two-plus laidback [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
One Bridge Burned
UPDATE (03.12 - 07:14 a.m.): A couple commenters to my original Blogging.la post on this matter have opted to be patronizing or antagonistic in their responses, either intimating that I’m a hypocrite or casting dispersions about my age. One is a fellow Midnight Ridazz supporter who knows me from my participation in those mass biking events. The [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood, updated by Will
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
My Own Private “Bike To Work” Week
The city’s annual Bike To Work Week usually takes place sometime in May, but I’m running my own personal version beginning tomorrow and cycling to work every day, in part because this might be the last week of my El Segundo gig (technically the contract is up Friday, but might be extended), and also because [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
But Now I’m Found
This easily dates back to 2004. Gawd, maybe even ‘03. One of my favorite occasional stops along the internest then and now is the website of Found Magazine, and way back then they put out information that they were planning a book to be filled strictly with found Polaroid images submitted by readers. I didn’t [...]
No Comments » - Posted in books by Will
Friday, March 9th, 2007
The Irony Of His Last Name Is Not Lost On Me
It was brought to my attention via BoingBoing.net that a Toronto city councilman named Rob Ford had this to say about cycling and cyclists that appeared in a Toronto Star article about the city’s decay and debt:
“I can’t support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, letters by Will
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
For Shame
It’s easy to rationalize not voting. You can couch your apathy in disenchantment with the candidates and issues or disenfranchisement from the political process. You can argue that your one vote does not make a whole helluva lot of difference. You can blame the traffic or a lack of parking at your polling place. You can even say it’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in politics by Will
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Rats Are An Outside Toy, Ranger
Well, a late-breaking and omni-frustrating relapse this morning of the residual post-marathon equilibrium/dizziness/temp issues this morning made me decide it was a wiser thing to stay home rather than to risk operating a motor vehicle through rush-hour traffic.
Note: It probably didn’t help that I had two gin/tonix and a beer on an empty stomach [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, gatherings by Will
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Hey I Made The Cut!
A couple posts ago I mentioned that on the subway ride up to Universal City between the bike tour and the marathon, I spoke with a Daily News reporter. Turns out some of my babblings made it into staffer Billy Witz’ marathon day report:
It was an interesting day, too, for Will Campbell of Silver Lake. And a long [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, news by Will
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Marathumbs
Marathonfoto.com is the organization that stations photogs at points along the course to grab pix of every participant as they pass by. That’s a lotta lotta shutter clicks. So far, according to its website, identification of only 39% of all the images taken has been completed, which means there might be some more of me [...]
No Comments » - Posted in sports, updated by Will
Monday, March 5th, 2007
A Long Night’s Journey Into Day… In Pictures
I won’t verbatim the post I just tossed up on Blogging.la. I’ll leave it at I’m better than this time yesterday, but still recovering from some odd repercussions my body’s experiencing. So while that continues (hopefully at a diminishing level), allow me to point you to the Flickr photoset of images from the day’s events.
