Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Up & Over
Gotta go over to mom’s in Burbank today to help her with something so I’ve pre-charted a 20-mile course that’s gonna get me upriver over there and then to IKEA to stock up on $2 battery-operated LED light strings for next Christmas, then down to the Supply Sergeant on Victory near Magnolia because I rarely [...]
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Heavenly Coffee
I’ve written before of the single bag of local coffee we purchased at the airport in Kigali on our way out of Rwanda back to Kenya when we visited Africa in 2005 and how it turned out to be the best coffee we’ve ever had. After we’d quickly emptied the bag I tried on several [...]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Night Riding
I think my brainstem mighta gotten a touch o’ the frostbite during the combined 40 miles of cycling that I did last night between 7:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., because I’m up this morning with a killer base-of-the-skull headache perhaps from improperly thawing my cranium out afterwards. In other words, it was COLD last night.
I [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Morning Snap: Wreath Needles & Raindrops
(click to quadruplify)
I’m loving the rain (while at the same time hoping it doesn’t bring about slides in the burn areas), but then again it looks like it’s gonna linger through today and even tomorrow which’ll keep me off my bike and stuck about 50 miles from the 3,000-mile mark I would have passed today [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Fighting For The Write
I had dinner with Mark Burton last night, one of my oldest friends. I pedaled up just ahead of the surprise rain showers to the Versailles restaurant (never bothered to figure out why a Cuban restaurant chain is named after a French palace) on La Cienega just south of Pico. I hadn’t seen him since [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in slice of life by Will
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Quite Possibly The Greatest Movie Soundtrack In The History Of Movie Soundtracks
Am I exaggerating in the headline? Maybe a little, but in watching Charles Burnett’s 1977 Killer of Sheep (IMDB link) last night I was extraordinarily moved throughout this strangely compelling and haunting film about life in mid-1970s Watts — equally so by the evocative music choices that complement it.
If the soundtrack is not available I’m [...]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
A Reflective Quality
Our wonderful tree for Christmas 2007, as decorated this afternoon and seen with its reflection in the glass top of our coffeetable:
Merry Christmas!
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
2nd Street Tunnel/2nd Annual Toy Ride
Here’s a realtime shakycam vidclip I shot entrance-to-exit through the 2nd Street Tunnel as cyclists who had set out from Hollywood made their way to Olvera Street as part of last night’s 2nd Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride:
Flickr photoset of the night here.
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
2899.2
And just like that, with tonight’s ride home from work I’m 100 (point-eight) miles from my revised annual bike mileage goal of 3,000. Wasn’t it just September 20 when I arrived at 2,007? Yes, it was. Did I kick ass this fall? Indeed, I did. Am I already thinking about how far I want [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Historicool
While killing some time waiting for Tuesday night’s downtown bike ride, I rolled around taking snaps of some of the local dramatic landmarkery (click to biggify):
The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
The rear of the Bullocks Wilshire Building with beacon lit.
What I find most interesting about the two buildings is that the department store, opened [...]
