To Hell With L.A. Times And All Their Telemarketers Wherever They Are!

Phone rings yesterday and it’s a young man from Bangalore, India or Mogadishu, Somalia or Reykjavik, Iceland or Whogives, Aturdistan calling asking if they may speak to a “Mr. or Mrs. McLain.” With McLain being Susan’s maiden moniker I tell them honestly and matter of factly that there is no one here at this number …

Couple From DV

I’m trying to sort through the shots from the Death Valley trip Susan and I and our friend Rachel took over Memorial Weekend. In the meantime here’s a couple of Rachel’s that she sent; the first taken in the entryway of one of the park’s 120-something-year-old kilns and the second one of me rolling down …

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” …