Archive for May, 2007
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Displaying The Colors
I hung Old Glory off the front porch this morning for the Memorial Day weekend. My first time doing so. The base was pre-existing except for being relocated to the column from the front door frame prior to painting the house last year. Had to improvise the pole from a garden stake that I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in history by Will
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Picture This
Dear Olympus,
The only thing keeping me from unleashing an all-out, multiple-front complaint assault about the pathetic level of customer service you’ve provided me in regards to the broken digital camera I sent you for repairs at the end of April is the fact that I didn’t pay for the unit in limbo. That’s right, said [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in photography, rants by Will
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Friday Afternoon
Out in the backyard this afternoon hanging with some of our animals is a good way to begin the Memorial Day weekend:
Hope yours is safe and sane wherever you may be.
No Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Don’t Trifle With The Eiffel
I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said and better about the Eiffel’Tower other than regardless of all the pictures and footage you’ve seen of it nothing can quite prepare you for how totally massive and dominating it is once you get on under and up in it.
Susan and I voted unanimously not to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Lost Purges The Payroll
Couple days late in tapping my keyboard about the season finale of Lost in large part because of the vast number of characters made dead. I almost can’t count that high. And if the episode’s still sitting on your DVR or VCR tape unwatched, move along because I gotta break down the massive carnage.
Let’s see. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in television by Will
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
A Star Wars Moment
My fellow Blogging.la contributor David Markland is psyched for the Star Wars Celebration beginning this Friday at the L.A. Convention Center, and wrote that he can track his desire to be a filmmaker back to when he saw the film and then the landmark “Making of Star Wars” special that aired on CBS back in [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in flashback, movies, television by Will
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Do You Sea What I Sea
So I haul out the my atlas just now to see a proper spelling of the Tyrrhenian Sea, where the image below of the sun rising over the western coast of Italy was snapped May 12 as we made our way to the port of Civitavecchia and then inland to Rome for the day, and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
There Were Giants In Those Days
Referencing the debate that’s continuing over on Blogging.la in conjunction with my L.A. Times column, L.A. City Nerd points out how the more things change the more they stay the same via this 110-year-old clip, a very short segment made on Spring Street in Los Angeles by Thomas Edison in 1897* showing the thoroughfare all [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
The Man In The White Linen Suit
You might recall my April post detailing the saga of the linen suit my mother purchased for me as an early birthday present.
Well enough with the words, there’s some pixels of the outfit with the blue linen shirt from J. Peterman and the white Johnson & Murphy bucks with me cleaned up and inside [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in clothing, travel by Will
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
A Novel Place
I have Susan and her keen hotel-finding skills to thank for allowing us to discover the remarkable Shakespeare & Company. From our room overlooking the Notre Dame Cathedral, the venerable bookseller was tucked in not so much as a stone’s throw away from us, but we didn’t know anything about it until a walk post [...]
