0706 Hours: First!

I took a nice spin around the Silver Lake reservoir with fellow bloggers Mack Reed and Sean Bonner this eeeeeaaaaarly morning, meeting at 6 a.m. (yikes but Mack’s the early rising man!) in the parking lot next to Spaceland for a clockwise cruise a couple times around the water to help get Sean back in …

I Scream You Scream

When I was a teen growing up in Hollywood, the place I wanted to go everyday during the summer was the Fosters Freeze that was on the eastside of La Brea a few blocks south of Fountain for a large chocolate-dipped vanilla cone. Looooooooved them. More often then not I’d wind up at the ice …

What’s In A Name

I’m moderately seriously thinking about nicking myself and going by “Dub” instead of “Will”… if not in person than in whatever print and online bylines I manage to generate. Now before you go rolling your eyes (I know: too late) it’s not like I’m gonna call myself “Rock” or “Bear” or “Boss” or “The Edge” …

Vote Early! Vote Often!

So a couple days ago an email arrived from a Silver Lake neighbor signed only with “Teeeeem” who wrote about enjoying the photos on my Flickr site and suggested I submit images to be considered for this upcoming exhibition at the next L.A. County Fair, sponsored by the Shed Research Institute. The cool thing about …

An Inspector Calls

You might recall my post from the end of April in which one of the waterheaters broke and we almost got super ripped off before getting a much better deal through Home Depot only then to get moderately ripped off with extras added to the bill by the plumbing company that showed up to do …