Archive for November, 2008
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
LAFD
The Los Angeles Fire Department was obviously very busy this last month with the numerous wild fires made all the more dangerous by dry and hot weather as well as really fast winds. And it was this week, in a seminar that I attended near Santa Monica, that I learned a little something about LAFD […]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Yay Recession?
Monday Morning gas was $2.05
Monday Afternoon gas was $1.99
Tuesday, gas was $1.95
From this, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can really tell the state of the world economy by gas prices. The faster they fall, the worse they must be. Not more than four months ago, I needed $70 to fill my gas tank. […]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
Well, I guess not that strange, but the truth is that I never really knew where Pacific Palisades was before. What is Pacific Palisades? Of course, I knew the name. My friends and I knew it existed. But we guessed in other areas and not exactly where it actually was — north of Los Angeles […]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Night for the Damned
Whew! I was wondering what to write about when I suddenly realized that the perfect story had fallen into my hands. How could I not have known? Am I such a self-involved Angeleno that I missed what was right in front of my face?
Speaking of what’s in front of your face, what is up with […]
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Another Addendum
On the Hollywood Tower of Terror ride in California Adventure, I sat in my seat, with a seatbelt around my waist, and secured my purse around my shoulders. While the ride shot up and down, I remember noting how my purse rose in the air and seemed to fall at the same rate as my […]
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Fake Out
On a related great Shake Out sidenote, the news was misunderstood by a couple of my out-of-country, non-English speaking relatives last night. They thought Los Angeles was really hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and called up to make sure everything was ok.
In really important news, USC professor Carol Muske-Dukes is the new California poet […]
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Shake, Rattle and Roll
With all the goings-on of the last couple of weeks–the election, prop 8, the economy, the season finale of Mad Men–I somehow missed the big Shake Out. The facts are this: At 10 AM this morning, millions of Californians participated in a 7.8 magnitude-earthquake drill. According to seismologists, the San Andreas Fault, which is that […]
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Remember Dreams Really Do Come True :-)
Disneyland is definitely an experience that many a Los Angeleno has loved or endured. During my childhood, I’m sure that I went every three or four years. I remember loving the rides, especially Space Mountain. I remember playing games to cut lines and cheat crowds. I remember dehydrating in the midst of a summer heat, […]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
My sex is on Fire for you , Allen Ginsberg: I
I pick my brain
Rumage through trash thoughts
for a satisfying morsel, a deep adjective.
“Spare phrases? Got any phrases to spare?”
They race through the mind and cramp when I pick up a pen
It just drips ink
Blots on the page
In obscure and obtuse ways
What does it look like to you, Al?
Word bank-empty
memories - liquidated
assets- frozen
Is this what it’s […]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Electoral Teeter Totter
According to the LA Times, Los Angeles county:
voted in overwhelming numbers for a Democratic candidate
agreed by a nose that same-sex unions were unconstitutional and that forcing doctors to notify parents of their underage teen’s choice to have an abortion was just a bad idea
believed, by more than 30%, that farm animals, specifically chickens, had the right […]