http://www.wildbell.com sic • \’sik\ adverb [Latin] (circa 1859): intentionally so written — used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it is exactly as printed or to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original (Ex. Tom said he seed [sic] it all). Fri, 16 May 2008 21:09:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was Monday when my friend and networker extraordinaire Joel emailed me out of the blue asking if I could come give a talk to his Cub Scouts troop Thursday night about endangered animals. I barely hesitated to say sure, and only after I signed on did I wonder what ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/16/ladybugs-ladybugs/ To the person who left the still-cold, three-quarters-full, 40-ounce bottle of Cobra Malt Liquor that I found in the plastic bag on the walkway below our porch, I'm pretty sure -- or at least hoping -- that you probably knew our deceased tenant Joe and perhaps stopped by this morning ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/16/grievers-take-note/ The Hollywood Burrito Project made, packed, carried and delivered fresh and hot burritos to 30 homeless people on the streets of Hollywood. http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/14/thirty/   The desk is cleared, the day is done and there's a bike to ride home. The relief and satisfaction in putting another issue of my magazine to bed is grand. Too bad it only lasts until about tomorrow morning and then it's back at it. http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/13/ahhhhh/ Susan noticed it sometime over the weekend, but I discovered the fungus among us in my morning spritzing of the side yard this morning. Having popped up between a couple walkway bricks it's almost half the size of one... sucker's huge (click to quadrify):   http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/13/shroom-to-grow/ With our tenant Joe's unexpected and sudden demise almost two weeks ago and the subsequent cleaning out of his belongings being completed by his brother yesterday I finally got a chance to get up there and take a good look around. Susan I had initially planned on cleaning it up and ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/11/first-look-upstairs/ It's disgusting that I went into the office yesterday at 2 p.m. to get caught up on work I'd been putting off until the last minute, and didn't emerge to come home until 6:35 a.m. this morning. That's right: 16.5 hours. No sleep, unless you count the 45 minute pass-out ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/11/finding-the-bright-side/ Back in early April I turned my backyard spotlight on the bud that had sprouted from a one of three dismembered cactus pads that I'd found last summer and thunked into some soil. Immediately after that first post there was some drama I never reported about. See, I moved the pot ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/10/cactus-pad-update/ If straight-up, no-frills urban cycling is a drug, then I'd liken it to marijuana, not only because a large segment of so-called "society" wants to keep it stigmatized and its purveyors negatively stereotyped, but also because of late radical anarchistic bike rides have begun to take place because apparently the ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/10/im-too-old-for-such-things/ So progress continues with our deceased tenant's next of kin clearing his property out of the upstairs apartment. I came home tonight to find what very well may be the dearly departed's death bed discarded with a flagrant lack of regard or responsibility in front of the house (along with ... http://www.wildbell.com/2008/05/09/no-really-just-put-that-anywhere/