Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Iron Man: There Will Be Cheese
So my main beef — quite literally — with Iron Man derives in the first couple scenes when Tony Stark is safely back on U.S. soil after having been held prisoner by terrorists for long enough to McGuyver Iron Man 1.0 and kick their collective holy-waring ass. The first thing he does is turn to [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in movies by Will
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Moth RAH!
Here I go again celebrating the littler things such as this moth willing to let my camera get surprisingly close to it while sunning itself on the leaf of an avocado seedling.
1 Comment » - Posted in nature by Will
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
‘Quat You Talkin’ About?
The loquat tree in the neighboring yard has branches that grow over the fence into ours.
Before we banned our gardening crew from the backyard because they proved lax in closing the gates, they used to strip the branches bare of the over-abundance of fruit. Now there’s enough for me… and the squirrels and birds and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, food by Will
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Saturday 1:26 a.m.
Post RIDE-Arc ride, rolling back home solo I had to stop at the bright lifelessness of Chris Burden’s “Urban Lights” installation outside the L.A. County Museum of Art (click to humongify).
It may seem odd to some, but those late hours are some of the most enjoyable to be on a bike in the city.
2 Comments » - Posted in art, biking, night by Will
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Filling A Desktop Void
I’ve been dealing with some things you know about — like the death of our upstairs neighbor — and some work-related things you don’t. And I’m just gonna keep that boring crap to myself.
But on the office front, I opened a desk drawer that I hadn’t in awhile and found a frame I’d purchased not [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in family by Will
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
How Seen Is My Valley
I’ve only been to the 5,475-foot-high Dante’s View in Death Valley once (in 2002) but it is a spectacular place in a park full of spectacles that leaves an indelible impression. One not quite as indelible as the national park’s 11,049-foot Telescope Peak that I summited in 2006, but enough so that when I saw [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in landmarks, outdoors, photography, travel by Will
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
First Maggie Bloom
The troubling wiltedness of the young magnolia tree in the parkway in front of our house hasn’t kept it from producing a crop of blossoms, the first of which I found popped open this morning (click to triplify):
