November 2011
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A Minor Accomplishment
After 12 and a half years of living in Los Angeles I am finally taking steps to cut back on my driving habit. Nearly every weekday since I’ve lived in this town I’ve spent on about two hours a day in a car, moving slowly and accomplishing nothing except for increasing my frustration level.
Those two hours in the car allowed me to travel a total of 25 miles each day. There has to be a...
Sentimental Accidents: Life And Death On The West... →
willstegemann:
“Please don’t do this. He’s his best friend.”
My mother was begging my father to not leave the house, to not take me with him and to not do what he said he was going to do when we got out there. I was waiting by the door in my blue and orange Mets jacket hoping that my mother would win this…
Over at my story blog I tell a story about my childhood best pal and what happened...
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Crossing A Line
I feel like I crossed some sort of line with regards to running this week. In the last week I’ve started to use a hydration belt to carry water with me on longer runs. When I plan on being on the move for an hour or more I’ve been bringing some energy gel along with me but the biggest sign that I’m really into this happened this morning when I was disappointed with myself for...
Sentimental Accidents: Visitation →
willstegemann:
Except for the empty closet, the place didn’t look any different than the last time I was there. The furniture was in the same places, the beds were still made from the day we left and the toys had been sitting untouched for weeks. The closet in my room was empty though. My clothes, along with my…
For one night it seemed like everything was going to work out just fine. Of...
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julieklausner:
A bonus track from the HWYW Live Show! Here’s Fred Armisen playing rock music and singing!
Not to brag but I saw this love and it was a lot of fun. Okay, I’m bragging a little. Side note: I spent a part of the night before this show in the hospital and was in rough shape by the time the live podcast rolled around. That said, I made it and had a great time thanks to Fred...
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Running and Goals
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about running, but I’ve been doing it. In an effort to keep myself working towards my goals I like to make them public.
Here are three races I’ll be running and how I hope to finish.
1- December 10th - Santa Monica/Venice 10K: I finished my last 10K in a little over 54 minutes. I’m hoping to get under 53 minutes this time.
2-...
Perspective
12 years ago I got engaged to a girl because I loved her and I thought that was what you did when you were 25 and in love. At the time it felt like I had reached an endpoint but today I understand that it wasn’t. It was a milestone on the road, not the end of a journey. Same goes for the next time I got engaged, and I actually went through with that one.
I might be closer to the end than I...
Well, most of you heard the news already.
douglasmartini:
Community is being pulled from NBC’s mid-season schedule. I don’t have anything funny or hyperbolic to say about it. I’m truly, genuinely gutted and frustrated. Today is a sad, sad day.
Breaking my no .gif rule just this once.
It makes me sad that there won’t be six seasons and a movie but I’m glad we got two and a half weird and wonderful seasons of this...
Sentimental Accidents: Maps and Legends →
willstegemann:
Based on the traffic at that time of night, I figured I had an hour to get the place presentable before she arrived. I was already wearing the nicest shirt and jacket I owned so I just had to make the place look a little less like a single guy’s apartment than it usually looked.
Washing the…
From my story project “Sentimental Accidents” the true story of how my...
Gabriel just brought me two cotton balls and said...
missdisgrace:
“I found some souls for our robots, so they’ll feel guilty when they don’t do what we say.”
This is the best thing ever said on the internet or anywhere else.
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Finishing A Conversation That Only Three of You...
“…I guess my point is that in the moment the whole thing with her brother wasn’t the worst thing. At that time the two things which drove me crazy above everything else were her inability to make a simple decision about where we should eat and the fact that she played that one sad record non stop, years after I had already played it to death. Those things, and not the deeper...
Sentimental Accidents: The Good Doctor →
willstegemann:
My wife and I hadn’t planned on waking up before dawn on a Sunday to run a 10K race but as the sun came up over Santa Monica on that October morning we were stretching our legs and looking for Lisa near the starting line. We did not see her face but somewhere among the thousands of runners she was…
A few words about my friend Lisa. Please take a moment to learn about her.
Fun Size Slackmistress: There is a Light That... →
slackmistress:
I think I knew Lisa for a few months before I knew she was a Neonatologist.
You save babies? I asked.
Sure, she said.
I wouldn’t let it go. You’re a fucking superhero. If I were you, I’d be shouting that from the rooftops.
After that, I always introduced her as “my friend, Dr. Lisa. She…
More about my friend Lisa. I would appreciate it if you’d read this and...
Tidbits from The Girl: Her left foot. →
thegirlblogger:
The shocking news of Lisa (@TriLisaKay) passing away has absolutely floored me.
This woman was flat out amazing.
I had the lovely chance to meet her at Blogger Prom in 2009 and have followed her blog and twitter feeds since then and have so much respect and awe of her determination and…
I second all of these thoughts on Lisa who passed away suddenly this week. She was...
Reigning Sound - Lyin' Girl →
New EP by The Reigning Sound available FREE FOR NOTHING.
Artists Featured on the Next Quentin Tarantino...
daveshumka:
Charlie Obscuro and the Garage Lixxx
The Vaguely Familiars
Crackle, Hiss, and the Beat from Wipeout
The Jingle Jangle Fisticuffs
Smug Chuggley and the Analog Snobs
The Surf Sitar 6
Vroom Noise and the Exotic Brass
Shane “Sugar Shark” Shimmy Shack and the Shoehorned “Sh” Shound
Almost The Who
ProtoTune
If Dracula Had a Band
Can’t wait for this.
