Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Tripping Out: T-Minus Five Days
This time Saturday we’ll be finishing up a three-hour stopover at New York’s JFK (where we’d been thinking about figuring out a way to catch a taxi from the airport to the Empire State Building and back but probably aren’t going to risk it) and getting set to jet the Atlantic to Venice and begin […]
13 Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Not The Nicest Way To Meet Your Neighbors
I’m not sure what time it was yesterday. The sun had dropped behind the Micheltorena Ridge to the west but it wasn’t anywhere near dark yet. I was in the office when I heard Susan say “Oh no!” before I heard what she was saying “Oh no!” about.
Then the screaming outside amped up and I looked […]
5 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood, animals by Will
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Ride Report
My friend Mark, having rebounded from a long night’s birthday partying has posted a comment wanting to know the 411 on how yesterday’s ride went, and not to ignore him nor avoid a chance to ramble about bicycling, here goes.
I’m pretty sure this is my third (maybe fourth) Volvo City of Angels Fun Ride. I […]
4 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Sunday Gonna Be Active!
Tomorrow morning is the City of Angels Fun Ride. Forty-plus miles of police-accompanied (i.e. yelled at ceaselessly by The Man to stay to the right and obey all traffic laws!) bicycling goodness. I’m opting for my Giant road bike (improved this afternoon with two new shoes and a fresh saddle) rather than The Phoenix because […]
3 Comments » - Posted in los angeles, biking by Will
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Chill With The ‘Chella
Ya know, I’m down with this music festival whose name it shares with the valley where it takes place out there happening right now as it does every year. I know there’s a boatload of bands and it’s hot and bottles of water are $20 dollars and the porta-potties are filthy and there’s a whole […]
3 Comments » - Posted in music by Will
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Bestest DMV Experience EVAR!!1111!
So with the job interview and me recalling my childhood insomnia, I totally forgot to give it up about the four-minute visit I paid to the Hawthorne branch of the California Department of Motor Vehicles this morning.
Seeing how I needed to produce proof of a clean driving record for this position I was to apply […]
5 Comments » - Posted in happenings by Will
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Defining Moments: A Project
I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile: create a chrono-log of my memories as a native angeleno. From my earliest on up be it a recollection fuzzy or crystal clear, paragraph to novella in size, mundane or meaningful, it’s important that I attempt a compilation of my memories.
And so we begin with the earliest concrete bit of […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, hiking by Will
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Keeping My Eye To The Keyhole
When I think back upon my vaaaast array of employments, my favorites have involved me being outside. Be it paperboy for the Herald Examiner in Hollywood (or later during high school when my mom was that paper’s Echo Park/Silver Lake/Los Feliz distributor) or a foot messenger walking a beat in Century City (even though it […]
No Comments » - Posted in jobs, updated by Will
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Two Sides To Every Smile
I deviated the route slightly this morning, taking Vermont all the way down to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which I stayed on across to Leimert Park.
At MLK I rolled to a stop before the red light at Normandie and from the sidewalk behind me at my four o’clock walked a petite woman perhaps somewhere in […]
No Comments » - Posted in biking, reality by Will
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Don’t Start Packing Just Yet
It’s being reported that astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that they believe may be potentially habitable with “earth-like temperatures” although the red dwarf it closely orbits is smaller and dimmer and not as hot as our sun.
But…
“The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is […]
