Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
The Amazing Bink
Back in February things frankly weren’t looking good for The Bink. Drastic loss of appetite and weight loss brought him to the vet where we learned in addition to a hairball in his stomach the size of a golf ball and an enlarged liver, an X-ray revealed he’d been shot by an asshole with a [...]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Coming To You From 56K-Ville
So the DSL modem went into what turned out to be its death throes last night, its panel of three LEDs raging in a blinky fluttering show of red and orange and green desperation.
I unplugged the thing and let it sit a bit before reconnecting it, but that didn’t help things. Then I pulled out [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in computers, gadgets, updated by Will
Monday, July 30th, 2007
7:49:22 P.M.
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Tonight’s sunset over the Micheltorena ridge.
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
The Laughing Hawk
It started with the territorial alarm calls of a pair of mockingbirds in the tree that grows over into the front yard. Jiggy, the cat most noted for messing with them was inside, so I knew he wasn’t the source of their distress. For once.
Judging from how high up in the boughs the confrontation seemed [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Four’s Company
That HBO’s Entourage survived my post-Suckpranos-finale boycott of the network surprised me. Seriously, John From Cinncinnati suffered my dismissive wrath. Debuting immediately after Tony and family and a plate of onion rings left us forever in limbo I couldn’t change the channel fast enough and vowed never to return no matter how rave the reviews.
And [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in television by Will
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
My World As Seen From Westerly Terrace
My friends and neighbors Cybele & Manny went all-day whalewatching up off the coast of Santa Barbara today and when they asked me to come take their dog Becky for a mid-day outing I told them I’d be happy to do so and walked over to their place shortly after 1 p.m. After hanging out [...]
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Grand, Just Grand
So last night Susan and I loaded up a canteen full of cheap red wine and brought along some bread, cheese, salami and olives to snack on at downtown’s California Plaza off of Grand Avenue before enjoying the Grand Performances presentation of China’s Guandong Modern Dance Company (reviewed nicely by Lewis Segal in today’s L.A. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in art, downtown, photography by Will
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Boldy Going
As you can see from the snap above just as we were about to bike onto the northbound 110 Freeway (no, not really), the IAAL•MAF’s regular Thugsday roll last night was a small affair. Just me, Eric Richardson and Stephen Roullier on a nice nine miler that took us to the top of Radio Hill, [...]
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Dog Day Afternoon
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This is my new favorite picture of Ranger, napping on the library floor appropriately with her ball.
Ranger has an endearing routine when she’s awake and wants to play a little fetch or wall ball (the record of which currently stands at 52). Whenever I get up from my desk, so does she get [...]
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Jawbone Of An Asterisk
It’s getting to the point now where nothing I find in the backyard phases me. While transferring to the greenwaste bin all the old rotting kindling that’s been sitting in the backyard wheelbarrow for years now, I look and there on the ground is a partial jawbone (including a few weirdly shaped teeth) about three [...]
