Defining Moments – Page 4

Unhooked! Or How I Greatly Improved And Perhaps Even Saved A Gull’s Life Today

by Willadventure, animals, Defining Moments 10/20/200904/26/2023Comments are Disabled

UPDATED (November 28, 2020): So eleven full years after this encounter, something extraordinary has happened concerning the videos I posted about it over on YouTube. Seemingly out of nowhere those clips that I hung up over at my quiet little YouTube channel have for reasons beyond my understanding suddenly found their way onto the screens …

The Dude Arrives

by WillDefining Moments, music 10/04/2009Comments are Disabled

Last March at Disney Concert Hall I considered it a once-in-my-lifetime event to hear my favorite symphony, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” played live. After all, I’d been waiting for that since I was 12. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, in attendance with my wife and mother among 18,000 others in the capacity crowd, under a …

Threat Successfully Diffused Defused

by Willbiking, crime, Defining Moments, disgraceful, gadgets, idiots, unfathomable 07/15/200907/16/2009Comments are Disabled

I’m southbound on La Brea, pedaling in the curb lane. There’s a parked car between me and Wilshire Boulevard so I work my way to the left edge of the lane and as I get there a sedan in the center lane passes me and I see there are four males in it — all …

Disappointmentland

by WillDefining Moments, family, happenings, nostalgia 02/01/200902/02/2009Comments are Disabled

Forty years ago this summer my Aunt Frieda, Uncle Jack and cousins Margaret, Laura and Allan came out to visit my mom and me from Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were living in a two-bedroom apartment in a building on the corner of Hamilton Drive and Gregory Way in Beverly Hills, and being 5 years old I …

Inauguride

by Willbiking, Defining Moments, gatherings, happenings, history, politics 01/20/200901/20/2009Comments are Disabled

I biked downtown this morning to L.A. Live. Grand plans had me getting down there at 6 a.m. for breakfast at the Pantry and then hanging out until Obama gave his first speech as the 44th President of the United States of America. What actually happened was that I left the house around 8: 15 …

I Do Hereby Resolve To: Bike Every Day

by Willbiking, Defining Moments, timelapse 01/01/200901/02/2009Comments are Disabled

So in terms of resolvolutions for the new year, in regards to my bicyclingz I’ve decided not to peg a 2009 finish line to any specific number. Instead, my goal for the new year is simply to Bike Every Day — whether it’s one mile or 100 — and see how far it takes me …

Oh Jerusalem Cricket!

by Willanimals, Defining Moments, nature 10/25/200810/25/2008Comments are Disabled

Up until a few moments before this picture was taken on Santa Cruz Island in 2004, if you’d said I’d ever get this close to a Jerusalem cricket aka potato bug without having to be physically restrained and sedated, I would’ve punched you in the arm and said you were nutso. But there I am. …