Archive for October, 2009
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
A Spooky Tale Just In Time For Halloween
Preface: Back in August my friend and fellow Metblogs contributor, David Markland (also the creator of the excellent Creepy LA website), told me he was aiming to pull some storytellers together for an event to take place around Halloween and wanted to know if I’d be interested in participating. I said absolutely in part because [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in fiction by Will
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Yummy Rhymes With Dummy
Since I haven’t had the opportunity to do much worth noting, such as saving any wildlife in distress this week (not counting three ants in my office that — yes, don’t laugh — I actually caught up and transported down to a planter in the building’s courtyard), here’s a post in which I go with [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, idiots by Will
Monday, October 26th, 2009
First Look: Our Sliiiiiither Lake Spooky Yard
Happy Halloweek!
In between my regular weekend chores, No. 1 Alabama baaaaarely holding on to beat Tennessee, and an ongoing mental cage match that pitted my flyweight creativity against some heavyweight procrastinatory frustrations battling it out as I tried to write a spooky tale to tell Sunday night at a storytelling event I’d been invited to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in seasonal by Will
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Springtime In Fall
(click image for the bigger picture)
A couple days of rains last week followed by some dewy mornings giving way to warm afternoons have startled the grasses from their seasonal subsoil slumber and sent them shooting up at the skies and sun so that they now blanket sections of the previously barren backyard a brilliant emerald [...]
No Comments » - Posted in nature, seasonal by Will
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Tendering Kindness
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s gull encounter and the amazing reaction it subsequently generated both here and at the post I made about it over at LA Metblogs, I just need to say how deeply moved I am by the outpouring of kind words and appreciation.
That things played out as they did — and so [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals, updated by Will
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Unhooked! Or How I Greatly Improved And Perhaps Even Saved A Gull’s Life Today
It was supposed to be a few serene and sunshiny moments this morning spent before work on the north bank of Ballona Creek tossing old bread that Susan had disposed of in the trash can to the pigeons, ducks, coots, gulls and crows seemingly ever-present by the Centinela overpass. And as you can see from [...]
32 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, adventure, animals by Will
Monday, October 19th, 2009
If This Wall Could Talk
I had my biannual visit to the dentist this morning, his Miracle Mile office of which is conveniently located only a couple blocks from a freshly installed exhibit featuring sections of the Berlin Wall and commemorating the 20th anniversary of its fall.
So of course afterwards I deviated from my normal home-dentist-work route to go back [...]
No Comments » - Posted in art, history by Will
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Putting The “Go” In San Diego
Despite a restless night of little sleep I got up this morning, shook off the fatigue and got on my bike from my location in San Diego’s Mission Valley for a bit of a destination-unknown ride. Roughly 24 miles later (granted, just a drop in the gridscape bucket), I do hereby declare this city to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in adventure, animals, biking by Will
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
New Territory
In all of the 15,000-plus miles my bikes and I have logged this last 33-ish months, most of it has been inside Los Angeles. In fact, the furthest urban environment I’ve pedaled from home is Newport Beach last December (for a work-related event). Other than that Long Beach, during a recreational roundtripper done for the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in adventure, biking, travel by Will
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Drops
A two-minute timelapse (perhaps 115 seconds too long), condensing about 30 minutes of rain action against my Westchester office window this afternoon.
