So I’ll shed my usual coating of protective caution and say that I think I rocked the second-round interview for the content manager gig in Hollywood that I’m vying for. If I’m wrong then so be it, but I think I hit it off with the marketing director who struck me as a cool guy …
Get home from a long day to my baby who welcomed me with open arms and dogs that were happy to see me and there was a package in the mail that Susan couldn’t wait for me to open. Inside was a very pleasant surprise: A bird of our very own — from the “Bird …
Day before yesterday I was looking at the approaching anniversary of my 13th straight month away from fulltime employment. Yesterday, after a sluggish commute across town to the city of El Segundo and first submitting to a drug screen and a battery of paperwork and information, I took a seat — albeit a short-term one …
And just like that I’m about to re-enter the realm of the gainfully employed. Granted, it’s a temporary copy-editing gig with a four-to-six week window, but it is a gig nonetheless and one for which I’m tremendously grateful — and the finite time frame makes the 20-mile commute through the thick of the city that …
In mentioning that I got mentioned in Sunday’s L.A. Times I rhetorically asked if it was greedy of me to want credit for the photo of mine used to illustrate the item. Yesterday I decided it wasn’t and wrote the Times’ readers’ representative: I was initially inclined not to make an inquiry because I appreciated …
An email came in yesterday from an editor at one of the local TV station’s news outfits. It salutated with “Hello Mr. Bell,” but other than that ringing error it was a very pleasant note stating that the writer and some colleagues read and enjoyed my Blogging.la interview with the anonymous artist I call the …
I don’t often venture this blog’s commentary/observations into the international realm often, and I know the spelling is different and all, but could the last name of Iraq’s president — Talabani — be any more ironic?