Hey Ebbets!

I got my latest Ebbets Field Flannels catalog in the mail Wednesday night and yesterday before I got the good news about landing the job I was thumbing through it and I said to myself that if I got the gig I’d reward myself on my first pay day by taking advantage of an available …

Outta Site

So my webhosting provider encountered some serious technical difficulties that pretty much left wildbell.com offline from around midnight to just a short while ago. Longest outage in the six years I’ve been with Dreamhost. Fun stuff, but hopefully we’re back up and running steady — and at least there was one occupant in the house …

I’m Wanted

You remember that Monster.com commercial from a few years ago, the one where people danced in abject euphoria to ELO’s “Do Ya, Do Ya Want My Love?” when they got new jobs? I always wanted to do that. You know that gig I interviewed for last week, the one I was really hoping to get? …

Sunset Junk Shun

If there’s one moment that shows my hip quotient to be less than zero when divided by one while also calling into question my credentials as a native angeleno it occured in the run-up to the long-running  Sunset Junction streetfair in 2001 when a fellow coworker at the time — who was so hip her …

Timelapsification

Oh, it’s on! I got home around 6 p.m. to find one of the San Pedro cactus night-blooming blossoms just itchin’ to open up and I rushrushrushed to get everything set up to capture it in all its glory, which my blogbud Julia asked in the comments of my first attempt if I’d actually taken …

Mid-Day Movie

Recorded yesterday, I apologize that it’s a 16-megabiscuit file but that’s what happens when you add music and slo-mo and stuff. The Dust Ball Era Featuring Ranger Click here for video Or if the higher rez ain’t worth the increased hez, here’s the YouTube link.