I applied for a job yesterday, one I’d reeaaaaaaalllllly like to have. So I did the application process up right. Really gave it my all: Started a cover letter from scratch and tailored it Dusted off some old tearsheets, scanned ’em in and made them into nice professional PDFs Polished my resume Proofed everything three …
So a couple days ago I decided to have some e-fun for Halloween. Specifically, I built a mock L.A. Times web page with a news feature headlined “Legend of the haunted Griffith Park picnic table” that I posted and linked to from Blogging.la: [click here to go to the complete story] It’s not my first …
Two words: Raiders Football. [sound of crickets chirping] Wow, do I know how to clear a blog or what!? On those rare occasions I find people willing and eager to discuss football, I’m usually asked what my fave team is and then they follow up wondering how I can still love the Silver & Black …
Susan and I aren’t frequent party givers… in fact the last time we had people over to the house for an organized thing was our post-wedding reception in June 2005. So when Susan said she wanted us to host a pumpkin carving party I was all for it, especially when she decided that the menu …
Last year my sweetie and I experienced Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” celebration for the first time. For this year’s festivities we decked ourself out muertos-style. Flickr photoset from the evening is here.
At the request of reader Paul to show our backyard vista in the daytime I went out this morning and just before 8:30 a.m. snapped this shot of it from the same vantage point as the ones taken a couple nights ago and seen in my previous post: In the daylight I was very pleasantly …
The owners of the property two doors north of us just unblocked our view from the backyard by cutting down two large trees from their front yard, leaving Sunset Boulevard looking like a runway for any flights of fancy I might wish to take: [Larger sizes here and here]