Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The Road To Racetrack, Redux
Begrudgingly canceled due to cold and wet weather that dropped in uninvited during our visit last Thanksgiving, I am excited to announce that Susan and I will be returning to Death Valley in early April not only so I can finally fulfill the 9-years-old dream of biking the 28 miles of bad-ass road from Ubehebe [...]
No Comments » - Posted in adventure, biking, travel by Will
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
And Now A Word About An Adamantly Incorrect Commenter
You might have checked out my post earlier this week on LA Metblogs cumbersomely titled “89 Snaps Of People I Passed While Biking This Morning On The Strand Between Hermosa Beach And The Ballona Creek Bridge.”
If not, in a nutshell, I had my sunglasses digicam on while biking from Hermosa Beach back to work [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in encounters, media, photography by Will
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Morning Snaps: Yard Flora
These five cactus pads were rescued as tiny sprouts a from a single dying pad (its remains visible on the right side of the pot) that had disconnected from the main plant. I’m particularly fond of the exulting “arms” the pad in the middle has grown.
After Saturday’s rains, this tiny forest of mushrooms sprang up [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Will Campbell Goes To City Hall
When it was announced that LAPD Chief Charles Beck was to be in attendance at this week’s City Council Transportation Committee meeting Wednesday, I would have bet good money that he wouldn’t show. Nothing against Beck, it’s just that in the recent past there have been blow-offs by the department to requests by the committee [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, adventure, biking, crime, downtown, government by Will
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Stray Dog Chronicles: One That Got Away
It’s been awhile since I had a stray animal encounter as intense and involved as this one — the last being the relatively desperate one with Acorn the Jindo by the Galen Center at USC back in July of last year. That one had a far more satisfying ending than this morning’s, but this one [...]
No Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals by Will
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Purrfect
Mainly this was an impromptu test of my nonvideo-capable iPhone 3G’s UStream video app that I’ve had for awhile and never used, and with it I managed to capture our Pumpkin’s distinctively odd and adorably unique purr. He even seems to ask a question near the end:
No Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Ol’ Grandad
It was back in April of last year that I got the surprise of a lifetime via email from my daughter who shared that I had been a grandfather for several weeks. “Aiden Kristopher Coy Campbell,” she wrote, “was born March 20, 2009 at 7:25 a.m.”
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hurt at [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, family by Will
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Prison Break
In the small bathroom off our second bedroom, is a window. It’s about, I dunno… maybe a foot, foot-and-a-half wide; two, three feet tall. It opens outward, so the screen’s on the inside.
At some point in the 104-year-old house’s history when the sketchiness of the neighborhood may have been the factor that led to the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in DIY, home economics by Will
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Sweet Serenade
I practically skidded to a stop when I heard them last night, because I’m the type of guy who while biking home in the darkness of Ballona Creek will do that kind of thing in order to listen to and appreciate the music of the night as sung by some unseen frogs somewhere nearby.
They’re very [...]
No Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Do I Make You Horny, Baby!?
I ask because I certainly got some guy in the Lexura coupe behind me all hot and bothered. Admittedly I was daydreaming southbound on Madison and missed the red turning to green in front of Sony Pictures in Culver City, hotbed of a high-speed transit corridor that it is.
Of course, I realized my absentmindedness a [...]
