Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
The Trap Is Set
Well, everything’s in place to catch a petty thief. I have a “dummy” Sunday paper ready with which to get up early and bait the trap, I have the DV cam aimed in the right direction and I have the software set (fingers crossed) to automatically record Quicktime movies whenever the motion sensor is tripped. […]
4 Comments » - Posted in adventure, updated by Will
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
The Secret Garden
I first learned about the art garden of Silver Lake’s Alberto Hernandez when I read about it in the L.A. Weekly back in 2004 and then again in an L.A. Times feature that came out around the time of Quinceañera last year thanks to the garden’s use as a location in that film.
After seeing the […]
No Comments » - Posted in neighborhood, art by Will
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Must Be Something In The Water
Coming home from an afternoon visit to my mom’s in Burbank I found this “growing” up out of the L.A. River Bikeway near its north entrance off Victory Boulevard in Griffith Park (click to enlarge):
Funny, it wasn’t there Tuesday!
4 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, June 29th, 2007
If You Kain’t Paint It — Duck It!
With some 2,600 miles logged on The Phoenix since I first started riding her at the beginning of last year, it was inevitable that the rattle-can paintjob with which I renewed her would eventually show signs of decay — accelerated by the unavoidable drops, scrapes and other such points of impact she was bound […]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, June 29th, 2007
On Your Marks, People!
I’ve begun the process of orchestrating and augmentating the promotional materials and logistications for the semi-notorious and entirely fictional IAAL•MAF bike conglomeration’s fifth spinviational duly dubbed the “Serenity Now” ride:
T’will be a casual roll July 22, beginning at noon from Travel Town in Griffith Park. From there the ride will traverse to the L.A. River […]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, June 29th, 2007
L.A. Bloggers Live
Odd as it might be to some that deciding how I’m getting to an event would help me figure out what I was going to do once I got there, that’s how things worked out for last night’s inaugural L.A. Bloggers Live at Tangier in Los Feliz Village.
Neil from Citizen of the Month
In the […]
12 Comments » - Posted in gatherings, writing by Will
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Beeing There
As I wrote in yesterday’s post about the long-horned digger bees I discovered now residing in our side yard, I’d check in on the remaining males aerially competing for the affections of an as-yet-unseen female somewhere in the vicinity, to see what a second round of activity might hold. The answer is: plenty.
And this time, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in nature, animals by Will
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Seeing Is Bee-lieving
I noticed it this morning, perhaps a dozen or so bees flitting about seemingly chasing each other over a small corner of the side yard where the African violets had bloomed earlier in the spring.
But these didn’t seem like your ordinary honey bees, no. There was something different about the way they moved and hovered […]
5 Comments » - Posted in nature, animals by Will
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
For Whom The Bell Tolls
With all my excavatin’ yesterday I overlooked this tiny little find until doing my daily fig sweep and poop scoop this morning. Even though the threads inside indicate it screwed onto something , it looks decidedly bell enough that it just might make a nice new icon for wildbell.com.
No Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
BowlCam: Chow Time
Sixty entirely mindless seconds of Pepper having a mid-day snack — but good audio crunch n’ munch action:
Alternate LOLCATS title: IM N YER BOWL MUNCHIN YER WHISKAZ
