Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I’ve Been Waiting For A Long Time
There aren’t many movies that I’ve waited 26 years to see, but True Confessions is one of them. Released in 1981 starring Roberts De Niro and Duvall apparently to somewhat less-than-critical acclaim and based on the infamous Black Dahlia murder case, for reasons lost to me I never saw it during its run in the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in movies by Will
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Milestone: Worst Birthday Ever
It just dawned on me that a couple days ago was the 10th anniversary of The Worst Birthday Of My Life. Sure, a lot of people have a lot of subjective reasons why a birthday might blow, but I guarantee you that my 33rd sucked in an empirical and impenetrably definitive sense.
Let’s go take a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in flashback, milestones by Will
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Light Writing
Entirely frivolous, but that’s never stopped me, the above is a comp of images made goofing down in the dark basement with an LED light and the long-exposure functions of the new Canon cam that arrived yesterday and that I bought partially as a birthday present to myself and partially in protest to Olympus not [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in gadgets, photography by Will
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Yeah… Some “Courtesy”
Seeing as how Olympus has had my malfunctioning Stylus 710 for more than a month now and it’s been exactly four silent weeks to the day since I wrote them back suggesting Olympus go take a flying leap after the company wrote telling me they considered the damage to be beyond warranty coverage and weren’t [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in gadgets, rants, updated by Will
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Getting A Handle On It
2007 has not seen a lot of me digging up the backyard the way I did in 2006. Last year I undertook a number of projects that resulted in some relatively serious — if mostly surface — excavating, and as some of you might recall I came up with a menagerie of metal and glassware, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
I, The Jury
Looks like the Superior Court of the great state of California just can’t get enough of me. In the mail yesterday came a letter summoning me to jury duty July 9. I last answered the call in January 2006.
No Comments » - Posted in civics by Will
Monday, May 28th, 2007
One Down, One To Go
With today’s 29-miler from Silver Lake through a quiet Memorial Day’d Los Angeles to the national cemetery in Westwood and back I’ve put the first thousand miles of my annual goal behind me and started on the second.
1 Comment » - Posted in biking by Will
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Honoring The Fallen: Walter Freeman, Jr
With my Memorial Day visit today I wasn’t at all disappointed not to initially find any new gravesites in the supposedly at-capacity Los Angeles National Cemetery. In fact I was almost relieved. But I knew that was to be short-lived. Especially when I came down one of the back roads in the northernmost area of [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in happenings by Will
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Listen To The Mockingbirds
It’s that time of year when the mockingbirds settle down in and around, building their nests, laying their eggs and raising their chicks.
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Our cat Jiggy, the youngest and most curious (and unfortunately best hunter) of our feline foursome, seems more than happy to draw their noisy territorial ire — not, as it seems, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Just Keeps Rolling Along
A year ago today Susan, me and our friend Rachel had a weekender in Death Valley and they accompanied me on a day-hike in the Panamint Range to the 10,000-foot mark and then sent me on my way up the rest of the trail to the 11,049-foot summit of Telescope Peak. Breaking campe the next [...]
