Courtesy my blogpal and 2008 Trivia Bowl teammate Ed Padgett’s blog, I just got my first sense of what tonight’s event at KABC studios is going to be like, via this Youtube post from 2006’s bowl: All I gotta say is what the hell did I get myself into?
Westbound on Venice Boulevard I just biked across La Cienega Boulevard.
Ready to show it off and begin getting familiar with my new iPhone, I came home Wednesday evening triumphant against the lethargic salesborg force at the Culver City AT&T store whose entire lack of urgency or expediency brought about a 65-minute bout of standing around until my name was called (while the apparent supervisor busied …
So it wasn’t until this morning that I noticed the only disturbance as a result of yesterday’s 5.4 earthquake. Apparently the shaking was enough to topple some artifacts on bookshelf display in the study, namely the baton bestowed on me for my heroic efforts stemming from membership on the Sparkletts Drinking Water team that ran …
Los Angeles just experienced what news reports are calling a 5.8/5.1/5.6/5.4-magnitude earthquake centered in the Chino Hills area of the region, which is about 40 miles away from where I’m at in Westchester, which is a couple miles north from LAX. In my entire life as a SoCal native, whose earthquake experiences go back to …
On the windowsill in the kitchen I’ve been keeping one ripening passion fruit pulled from the side of the Ballona Creek Bikeway and a bowl full of loquat seeds from the fruits I’ve eaten off the portion of the neighbor’s tree that hangs in our yard and wondering what the hell was I going to …
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Pretty productive morning. Got a package sent off to the winning eBay bidder in Virginia — his prize a pair of Justin camel/elkskin boots I’ve had for 20 years and worn maybe four times during that period. Got a haircut, while Susan got our grocery shopping done. Went to see a matinee of “Indiana Jones” …