Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Dawgz
I’d love to fib and say Ranger and Shadow have grown to become best buds, but that hasn’t happened in the year-plus they’ve been together and probably won’t. Shadow at 13 is tolerant of the rambuctious 16-month-old Ranger but there’s no love lost and more often than not they keep to their separate corners. On [...]
No Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Bench Warming
I can’t remember if I first spotted it Monday or Tuesday this week, but on one of those days while bike commuting to work south on Redondo Avenue in between Pico and Venice boulevards I spied a discarded wooden bench curbside. The first time it was upright and the next day it was turned [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in adventure, slice of life by Will
Friday, September 21st, 2007
A Simple Truth
Sorry for the upside downishness of the image, I snapped this on the fly after catching it out of the corner of my eye (click to triplify):
It’s a manhole cover I passed on Jefferson just north of Rodeo Road near the designated community of Cameo Plaza, and it reads:
City of L.A.
Made In Mexico
I find that [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in los angeles by Will
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Moment of 2th
2th? As in 2thousand-and-seven:
I’m not sure why I’m going all Zoolander with my lips or what button I pushed on the cam for the image to come out all black-and-white, but there it is and I am: pedaling the first few feet past the intersection of Cota and Ocean Drive in Culver City at 8:49 [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Does A Milestone Passed Alone In The City Make Any Sound?
While I can’t pinpoint it to an exact measurement, by my calculation I figure by the end of my bike business today give or take a tenth (or a couple) miles I’ll have 11.6 to go tomorrow morning to reach the not-as-elusive-as-I-thought 2,007th mile for the year.
And while I also can’t specify the exact degrees [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Momentousness
Having on Friday willfully sacrificed my work commute and that night’s Midnight Ridazz so as to partake with Susan in that not-often-enough summer ritual known as the Hollywood Bowl, I nonetheless deprived myself of adding some 60 biking miles to my annual totals and putting me within a couple commutes of catching and passing my [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The Pruning
Well we thought the time had come, but it turns out after a re-read of the instructions we were actually way overdue in taking the next step with the most advanced of the four avocado seedlings we’d been nurturing in the kitchen windowsill since last month.
click to doublify
Whereas we thought we were supposed to let [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in nature by Will
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Bowl-dly Go
click to quadrupilate
Yeah, we had kick-ass seats for a kick-ass Pink Martini concert tonight at the Hollywood Bowl.
2 Comments » - Posted in happenings by Will
Friday, September 14th, 2007
We Interrupt This Bike Blog For…
It ain’t often but occasionally there’s a perk to being a contributionalist with the Metroblogging empire, and last night rose up the opportunity from Blogging.la Captain David Markland to take my wife to a couple of terrace seats at the Hollywood Bowl to see the famed venue recreated as the legenndary Cocoanut Grove nightclub with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in happenings by Will
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Keeping Driving On The Downlow
I know this stuff bores the shiz out of 98.665% of you visitors here, but it’s how I roll literally and figuratively. And in the first eight days of my new gig I’ve driven three times, biked 4.5 times and bused 0.5 times (those point-fivers are from my mixed-use commute yesterday when I biked in, [...]
