Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Yeah Well The Sidewalks Are For Idiots!
There’s a part of me that’s really pissed and a part of me that’s really glad I didn’t understand what the guy yelled at us.
As Eric, Michael, Mack, Stephen, Ingrid and I in all our laidback IAAL•MAFness rolled west on 11th Street across Broadway sometime around 9 p.m. last night, a muddled bellow from behind [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in biking, idiots by Will
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Sadly Ironic
With some time to kill before meeting up with the iaal•maf near LaFayette Park for a downtown art ride followed by some barbecue and beers at Spring Street Smokehouse I rolled around the way a bit, snapping
I’ve long admired the Bullocks Wilshire building and equally appreciated the Southwestern School of Law for taking [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in history, landmarks by Will
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Behold: The Yellow-Breasted Splash’n Dasher
In my webcammings of late I’ve been pointing the camera through a window out into the side garden at a makeshift birdbath that I set up awhile ago during some particularly nasty hot and dry spell. To my consterned surprise the effort went entirely ignored for a few weeks by what turned out to be [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Snow Way!
This crystal clear morning provided a nice vista from my office of the distant San Gabriels dusted with some of that mythical white stuff (click to biggify):
2 Comments » - Posted in weather by Will
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
A New In Old
If you’ve read this blog for any length you know I get a kick out of digging things up out of the backyard, which is a steady supplier of stuff — most of it as worthless as it is intriguing. Be it marbles, figurines, opossum jawbones, World War II era German army helmets, whiskey bottles [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, history by Will
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
“That’s Why I Hate Cyclists”
Lawd knows I don’t spare the rod when it comes to ranting about the level of craptasticity I encounter among drivers from the saddle of my bike. I have the same reaction when I’m impeded by lane-hogging joggers and walkers I’ve met both on the L.A. River Bikeway and much closer to home on the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
The Other Side Of The World
Occasionally I’ll scroll back through the time machine that is my photo archive and in this case I ended up all the way back to early 2004 before slingshotting back forward to the summer of 2005 and our Africa trip, in particular this shot taken on our last morning in Zanzibar when I waded out [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in flashback, photography, travel by Will
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Over Before It Got Started
Snap of the storm breaking up over LAX and the Palos Verdes Peninsula as seen from my office window yesterday at 11:42 a.m. (click to quadruplicate).
No Comments » - Posted in weather by Will
Friday, December 7th, 2007
From Out Of The Blue
I’m not going to do much explaining here largely because I am still too blown away to translate my feelings. In my inbox yesterday was a note with the subject line “Response To Review” that read as follows:
Dear Will Campbell . . .
I’ve just read you most interesting comments on your website, in which [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in books, letters by Will
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
20-Picture Project: 20 (Actually 23) Stops
It was simple: Wherever I had to stop my bike during my ride home from work last night I pulled out the cam and snapped a pic, occasionally two. Sometimes I tried to find something even moderately compelling, sometimes I just pointed and shot and moved on.
Viewable here.
