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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Upgraded
Four years ago, I was in a Best Buy at the Westminster Mall in Huntington Beach, buying a Hewlett Packard laptop. Four years later, my laptop had undergone international travel several times, two harddrive meltdowns and a burned-out backlight. Because of the last item on the list, my poor HP was officially declared deceased by […]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
SNOW!
During the fires this year, my local city hall sent updates via text messages to let residents know what roads were closed, the status of all the blazes and other fire-related information. Imagine my surprise when just three days earlier, I started getting local government messages about all the snow clogging up the 14 Freeway […]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
The Americana
The once bedroom community of Glendale has recently been jolted out of its sleepy state with a splashy new outdoor mall centered squarely in the middle of Brand Blvd. known as the Americana. Some call the structure an ostentatious eye sore. The developers of the Americana, Caruso Affiliates have determined to make the out door […]
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Be My Friend
I’ve found myself here again.
The place we vowed never to return. Somehow it happened.
The exit map on my palm is smeared with your cryptic words
I can’t decipher them now.
How did we lose each other, Al? We were going along so famously. Where are you now?
Be my friend, Al.
I’m calling for you — why aren’t you […]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Winy Month
If there’s one thing I lack, then it’s a memory for alcohol. I just can’t remember the names, mixes, glasses or fruit that adorn the liquored liquids. It’s not because I overdrink, but rather, it’s that I just can’t bother. Nonetheless, November proved to be a month in which I wandered through several scenes across Los […]
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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 […]