I know it’s said that nobody walks in LA (or alternatively, only nobodies walk in LA). If that were true I’d probably be a great deal happier given that one of the main things that irks me about living in LA is how oblivious people seem to be to other people. This is true, [...]

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I’ve been reading about the anthology Yes Means Yes on Bitch PhD. I think, despite the fact that just yesterday I started (but did not finish) a blog post about my large stack of unfinished projects and books, that I need a copy of this book pronto. I almost ordered it online last [...]

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People sometimes ask me what it is that I like about living in L.A. (usually in conversation where I have just admitted that I thought I’d hate it here when I moved but quickly came to love it). Of course there is one obvious answer. It’s about 68 degrees today and while it [...]

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This morning, while driving through the Sepulveda Pass, I looked up to see what looked like a baby dragon flying overhead.  Big wings, long thin tail.  I suppose, given that this is LA afterall, it is possible that I was looking at some sort of movie prop.  But given the lack of the normal annoyances [...]

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Earlier this week I had what I, upon waking, immediately characterized as a nightmare.  In the dream I woke up and looked out my bedroom window to see a backyard lightly covered in white flecks.  Snow.   Overnight temperatures below freezing.  Somehow in the dream the front of the house and the back were different microclimates [...]

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Sometime between now and whenever I go to vote tomorrow I need to figure out how to vote on the seven propositions on the ballot (as near as I can tell those are the only ones I need to worry about since Prop S doesn’t seem to be on the ballot in Altadena). My [...]

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Yesterday’s LA Times has an article about the effects of police efforts to curb crime in the part of downtown known as skid row. The claim is that since last fall when LAPD increased the number of officers in the area and put an effort into reducing crime downtown the homeless in skid [...]

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