Armed with a magic “pre-approved” industry invite to all the seizure-inducing gaming goodness that is the E3 Expo provided to me by one of the bloggers at the Golden Gopher get-together Tuesday I wa very much looking forward to checking out the action. I was hoping to go yesterday, but the trip to the dentist …
Let me make one thing clear. I would rather do almost anything than go to the dentist. Not necessarily because I’m phobic to the pain they give or the instruments of torture they use, but because since the repairs I had to endure after my motorcycle accident coming up on 12 years ago my chompers …
My baby ordered a new media cabinet for the livingroom that was delivered yesterday, weighing some 200 pounds. The furniture we had everything hooked up on before was actually a combination of two TV stands stacked one upon the other, one I bought from IKEA for my old apartment and another that I purchased when …
Susan and I had a full day planned yesterday… or at least a partially full day. We were all signed up to help beautify Silver Lake as part of the citywide Big Sunday volunteering project, but a phone call from her boss before 8 a.m. — on a damn Sunday! — instead diverted her into …
Films that suck make me mad. I mean physically mad. Mad like “I wish I had Blank. T. Blank’s blankityblank phone number and/or address so I could aggressively insert myself into their life and tell them how much they and their movie blew until the police show up and arrest me for assault and maybe …
Mi hermano de los diarios electronicos, Rodger Jacobs, not content to just take the question “What do you covet?” posed by blogging birthday gal Adrienne Crew and run with it solo has instead seen fit to turn it into a meme and tag me with it. Helpless to resist, I can do nothing but answer …
Two Mays ago Susan and I pitched in and picked up trash along the L.A. River: May 1, 2004 — As planned, but a little later than expected, Susan and I made it over to the Friends of the Los Angeles River’s annual clean-up at the Los Feliz station (one of 10 stretching from the …