Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Two-Game Win Streak
Pardon me while I take a moment celebrate my Raiders. Last week Oakland finally snapped what had become an 11-game losing streak by beating the Cleveland Browns 26-24. This week they topped Miami 35-17 for their first back-to-back victories since I don’t know when. They looked like an actual football team! Receiver Jerry Porter […]
3 Comments » - Posted in sports by Will
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Sunday Morning Snapshot: A ‘Simmon & Two ‘Maters
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One of the components of my weekly backyard tidying is to bust out the rake and comb the grounds. Inevitably I find another further proof our backyard was treated as a landfill in the form of a half-dozen more pieces of broken glass, a buried ball or bone courtesy Ranger, and other […]
No Comments » - Posted in photography by Will
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Back Home Safe & Sutured
I never cease to be amazed at the toughness of animals. Bink dropped half his weight on his way to the threshold of death’s door last March and comes rebounding back as if it was nothing.
Jiggy basically filets himself and manages to mask the seriousness of the wound. Certainly it wasn’t deep, but it wasn’t […]
3 Comments » - Posted in health, animals by Will
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
We Interrupt This Saturday For A Minor Emergency
Not so much an emergency as a veterinary visit that was certainly due. See, our youngest cat Jiggy came in on Monday night with a wound on his flank just behind the right front leg that we couldn’t really get a good luck at because he wouldn’t let us. But three things were obvious: he […]
2 Comments » - Posted in updated, health, animals by Will
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Bus, Bikes & Trains Oh Boy!
Tomorrow should be a fun day of discovery. After learning of the Second Annual L.A. Archives Bazaar at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino on Saturday, I pitched the idea to Susan earlier of taking all that history in and going multi-modal in getting there — by bus, train and bike. And I […]
3 Comments » - Posted in happenings, adventure, biking by Will
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Bionic Rhymes With Moronic
As with every fall TV season I usually get all revved up about a show. Last year it was “Heroes,” and this time around it was “The Bionic Woman,” which NBC went to such serious lengths to hype. Sure enough the biggity bigbig debut was last night and I bought into the massive build-up enough […]
No Comments » - Posted in television by Will
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
FloorCam Is Rolling
If by chance one looks to the right and sees the two tiny webcam image thumbnails there, one might wonder with absolute validity why oh why are we contributing to the clogging the internest with an image of some hardwood floor and a rug.
Well, the situation is this. Our beloved Ranger has returned […]
4 Comments » - Posted in updated, animals by Will
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Morning Moonie
Short uncropped series I made of the setting over the Santa Monicas is here on Flickr.
2 Comments » - Posted in nature by Will
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
First One’s In The Can
I shipped my first issue today. Just after lunch and after triple checking the final against some last-minute corrections — a missing comma here, the wrong headline for my editor’s column in the table of contents there — I signed off on it and away to the printer it went to become Vol. 7, Issue […]
3 Comments » - Posted in jobs by Will
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Sirius-ly
I guess I owe Sirius Satellite Radio an apology. It wasn’t them that sucked supreme so much as it was the do-the-least-amount-of-work installers at Circuit Shitty who put the unit into my truck way back after my baybee got it for me for Christmas 2004.
I first wrote about them some three months after that in […]
