Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Flashback: Black Rhino Of The Ngorongoro
For no reason this morning I opened up a folder on my computer containing the thousands upon thousand of images from our African honeymoon that began four years ago next month. This is the first photo I clicked on of a solitary black rhino backdropped by the jawdropping vastness and grandeur of a mist-shrouded Ngorongoro [...]
No Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals, flashback, travel by Will
Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Tickets I Did Not Get On The Way To Work Today
In light of the citation I received Friday evening in Larchmont Village I decided to show you what a flagrant lawbreaker I am on a daily basis by reviewing and cataloging every single one of the citeable offenses I committed on my 14.5-mile commute to work this fine Monday morning.
And while the haters will see [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Beetle & The Blossom
Just me, a magnolia blossom and a hungry green June beetle on a Sunday morning in Silver Lake with me perched somewhat precariously atop our garage to get the shots and quick video that make up this Flickr photoset.
No Comments » - Posted in nature, neighborhood by Will
Friday, June 26th, 2009
My Farrah Post on LA Metblogs Got Some Cyber-Ink In New York Magazine!
Fellow LA Metblogger David Markland just hipped me to the fact that my post there yesterday remembering when I met Farrah Fawcett, was deemed worthy of inclusion in New York Magazine’s Daily Intel column featuring an online roundup under the headline of “Farrah Fawcett’s Touching Tributes.” Neato!
5 Comments » - Posted in celebrity, internet by Will
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Paying My Dues
I knew I was going to get a ticket when the cop hit his siren’s squawky chirpy thing not once but twice from behind me, in addition to the fact that he’d lit up the rooftop lights of his prowler — and despite the fact that before the second blarp! I’d already pulled over to [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in biking, crime by Will
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Mourning Has Broken
Literally no sooner had my reminiscing post recalling the day I “met” Farrah Fawcett gone live at L.A. Metblogs when news started trickling in about Michael Jackson.
To say goodbye to one adored icon of my youth — in essence my Marilyn Monroe — was tough enough. But on the same day for a cherished voice [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in celebrity, unfathomable by Will
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Looks Like Bink’s Got Some Company
Our cat Bink is somewhere approaching his fourth month of self-imposed outdoor exile — this despite our best failed efforts to trap him a couple weekends ago utilizing the old baited-crate-balanced-on-a-stick-tied-with-string routine.
He knows where home is and sticks close by and we see him pretty regularly either live or pixelized when his image gets captured [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Bullet Time
I’d heard the first two, but it was when the third one sounded that I came awake as if shot from a gun myself. Then came the fourth round. All of them in quick succession. But the fifth took just a split second longer. As if the shooter hesitated thinking maybe four was enough, or [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in crime by Will
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
It Was A Bike-Fixin’ Sunday!
I did a bit o’ the Bike Kitchen thing this morning, in the comfort of my frontyard.
It’s going to be interesting to see how different the bike rides all reconfigured. Not just with the new seat and tires and bottom bracket, but some dimensional stuff as well. Nothing major, but I’ve gone up to a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in DIY, biking by Will
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
There’s A Sunflower In There Somewhere
The largest of our batch of sunflowers is almost four feet tall and it looks like there might be the makings of a wee flower emerging. Or it could just be more leaves (click for Flickr page).
