A Place In The Sun
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):
Treecycling
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 …
Forgive Them Father For They Know Not What They Do
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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Mid-Afternoon Moon
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.
Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill
Until the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill came out last year (and with it glowing enough reviews to get me to add it to my Netflx queue) I hadn’t ever heard of Mark Bittner and his personal mission to care for and feed the conures that are thriving around San Francisco’s North Beach …
The Eyes Have It
Some people go drink when they can’t get words out of their head and onto the page (or screen). Me? Well, when I took a spin around my writer’s block today, I kept on going right past the corner bar and instead made a sharp left down an alley of artistic expression where an idea …
Just A Thought Before I Go (To Bed)
I was surprisingly indifferent — even siding with the underdogs throughout most of it. But wow what an awesome game. I’ve seen a lot of football but I’ve never seen such a clutch performance in such a clutch game as Texas Quarterback Vince Young’s at the Rose Bowl leading the Longhorns to a 41-38 come …