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 …

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.  

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

Interesting The Way Things Resolve

So there’s a Blogging.la get together at the buzz-inducing new Seven Grand bar downtown and on Thursday I’m scheduled to be one of the readers at the L.A. Bloggers Live gathering in Los Feliz Village… the latter being something I oh-what-the-hell’d and signed on to go from spectator to participant in the throes of  a …

iDont

Man but the hype for Apple’s new iPhone is getting feverish. There’s the obligatory package of articles in today’s L.A. Times, one examining how the costly device — if successful — might alter the course of history rivers time communications cellphones and the other giving tips on how to get your hands on one when …

There’s A Reason It’s Called Viral…

I credit/blame Julia for pointing me from her blog to the “Dramatic Chimpmunk” clip (beside-the-point point of zoological order: it’s a prairie dog, not a chimpmunk) that’s been making the rounds and rounds on the internut and being watched in numerous variations on YouTube by millions. I have only but myself to blame for contributing …

A Word About Bink

Has it been since mid-April that I last wrote about our Bink and the health troubles that originally manifested February and led to the discovery of his unrelated shrapnel wound in March? Time man, jeez: zoom! Anyway,  I’m long overdue with a status report and it’s all good thanks to our trust in his toughness …