L.A. Anatomía

I read somewhere today that Americans drove less than 12 billion miles or something this month than they did last year. Holy crap! 12 BILLION MILES! That’s a lot of not driving!

Question: Do you feel like you see more people on the streets doing the alternative driving deal? I know that I know of more people who carpool. I know that I know I see more bicyclists and persons waiting for the bus than I used to, but this is northern Los Angeles. I don’t attempt to classify our habits as the habits of an entire metropolis.

Your input?

A while back, I posted about the deeply dark times at the LA Times newspaper, and I also posted a link to the website of an anonymous journalist. This anonymous journalist, who is a staffer at the Times, has taken it upon him or herself to log about the destruction of a once great newspaper at the hands of great real estate entrepreneur — Sam Zell.

The blog, which is excellent, is: www.tellzell.com

Here’s what I noticed: For the last couple days at my “real job,” any time I tried to access TellZell, the browser would say it couldn’t be done, as if the site was taken down or as if I was clicking on a broken link. However, when I tried to access the site a few days later on my personal computer, there it was! Still spitting out written bullets at the owners of the Tribune.

So, here’s my question for you worker bees, wherever you are, can you access the TellZell site at work? Or are employers purposely filtering out any revolutionary content that might give their employees a mind to take to the internet and talk?