My dog Shadow is on her way to being 12 years old. I found her on Labor Day of 1994 at Lake Balboa where she had been abandoned. She was perhaps eight weeks old. I was eight weeks past my near-fatal motorcycle accident and still in the midst of being put back together again. Physically …
“Dont think about all those things you fear, Just be glad to be here.” — From “Hayling” by FC Kahuna And with that tripsonic tonic flowing out of my iPod and into my ears I rolled on The Phoenix over to the post office to mail a couple things and pick up a bunch of …
Checking email this evening I just found a notification from Cafepress telling me that I just made a sale — my first! — of one of my 2006 calendars I’ve been hawking here for the last couple weeks or so. It was purchased by a Janet Z. who resides somewhere up in the great state …
It was a lazy day of watching playoff football for me and hanging out outside for the cats, such as The Jig below (click to biggify):
A couple days ago on blogging.la I posted what’s become an annual rant around this time of year about asshat neighbors who just put their Christmas trees out with the trash cans and then just leave them out there after they aren’t picked up: I know this has been covered elsewhere (Councilman Eric Garcetti’s blog …
On the way back from lunch yesterday I’m listening to a short report on NPR about several red-state NBC affiliates refusing to air a new midseason replacement show called “The Book of Daniel” (which I’m just now recalling aired last night and thus I missed it, dammit), primarily because of its irreverent depiction of Jesus …
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Out in the backyard around 4 p.m. trying (and failing) to get pictures of a pair of beautiful red-tailed hawks circling the skies over the house, I ended up hauling in his relatively speaking slower-moving object.