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 …
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:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
It took the better part of two days last week to dress the Hollywood Sign up in a fashion statement that read “Save The Peak,” an authorized stunt that is part of an initiative to raise money to purchase a large parcel of nearby hilltop land and prevent its residential development. Yesterday, it came down …