Will The Banger Of The Drums Please Fucking Die
Or at least mix up the goddam ryhthm, you asshole. UPDATE (11.03): It continued pretty much unabated until past 8:30 p.m. when either the cuss-worthy percussionist finally stopped. Or was stopped.
May I Present: El Naranja!
I’ve been mum about the death of 8Ball since writing about her abrupt demise early last month. But when she suffered that fatal frame fracture October 7, I slowly and gingerly rode her home from Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook that afternoon with a heavy heart and was pretty bummed after that. Sure, I hauled out …
Happy Halloween: Thinking Outside The Pumpkin
A best-ever awesome trick-or-treater turnout under wonderful weather, and bonus: my extensive and tangled serpentine chains of extension cords didn’t blow the power out or catch anything on fire! But now a word about my favorite jack o’ lantern (click it for the bigger picture): Totally improvised. I’m not sure what species of pumpkin but …
Vandalizing The Vandalism
After discovering yesterday morning that our garage door was one of the many hit in the neighborhood as part of Wednesday night’s tagging attack, I was successful in removing the smaller black tag with a bottle of graffiti remover we had, but the larger and infinitely more retarded silver tag wasn’t going to surrender so …
A Tree Grows In Cactushenge
I have two face-palming habits as a greenthumber. One: I will pretty much plunk any bit of severed succulent into a patch of dirt to see if it’ll grow (and most of the time, it will). And two: I will plant found seeds in pots in no organized manner and without making any record. Illustrating …
Of Prowling Trespassers & Punk Taggers
Wow. This morning was a double whammy full of assholes. At 5:20 a.m., Ranger started barking her “this is for real” bark and sure enough after bolting from bed and looking out the bedroom window there was a shady looking creep casually walking the brick walk on the north side of the house like he …
Orb Weaver Can Haz Termites
A short spell of light rain yesterday was enough to disturb a subterranean termite nest on our property and bring its population to the surface (click image for the bigger picture): To the uninitiated, it can be a bit disconcerting to see a termite swarm suddenly flying about or moving along the ground seemingly from …