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Anti-HOA Yard of the day: No lawn all drought tolerant plants
Just what we need in the land of uber water using St Augustine lawns, a homeowner that rips it out and puts in native and Mediterranean type plants that thrive in our wet winter dry summer climate. Good thing they don’t live in Orange or Glendale where those sorts of actions are frowned upon and a... »
Meter FAIL Should Not Be a Parking FAIL
Today’s LA Times story about Councilman Tom LaBonge’s recent motion to clarify the rules regarding parking at failed meters (i.e., you should not get a ticket for doing exactly that), reminds me of the time I parked outside Amandine at a failed meter. Luckily, or unluckily, enough, a cranky parking enforcement officer was giving a... »
Street Seen: Ghosts Of Los Angeles
A passerby provided this unexpected supernatural consequence while I stopped during my bike ride home from work Monday night to snap a timed exposure of the actual ghost that is Johnnie’s Coffee Shop. Its brightly lighted corpse has sadly haunted this corner of Fairfax and Wilshire for the last 10 years. There may be... »
“It’s Only A Play”
Ira, a gun-toting critic, has a thankless job in “It’s Only A Play”. He finds himself the odd man out – in the producer’s upstairs suite waiting for the opening night reviews to come in! Though by no means a professional critic, I have found myself in some uncomfortable situations when reviewing a play... »
Snapshot: Nightdogs
1:09 a.m. Taken while biking home after an hellaciouslyIsayhellaciously long day/night at work. Tired as I was, I couldn’t resist stopping across the street and freezing this Hollywood landmark’s moment in time. »
Google Might Kill Me?
I love Google. They once invited me to the Google campus. As the subject of an experiment in blogging, I was paid a whopping $50., all that I could eat, and just the joy of being on the inside was cool. As I said, “I love Google”, but I’m not sure that I need Google... »
Ronald Lamonte Barron, Rest In Peace
One of the article’s I read about the slaying of Ronald Barron, the former gangmember turned interventionist, stated that the shooting Sunday night after the Super Bowl took place outside a bar with a red door on the 5000 block of Pico Boulevard. So when I detoured to that block this morning — just... »
Carrying a gun in Los Angeles
The LA Weekly is tackling one of my old favorite topics: carrying a gun in Los Angeles. They are specifically talking about carrying one in Starbucks but it’s worth taking the opportunity to discuss the larger issue. Yes, carrying a gun in Los Angeles is legal in a variety of different situations. For anyone... »
Original Joe’s Left a Bad Taste
I was downtown with my husband Ken. I was tired and hungry, so when he suggested that he could drop me off at OJ’s while he ran an errand I said a quick, “Yes, please”. It was late afternoon so there were plenty of stools at the counter. My favorite place to sit. I enjoy... »
Monrovia joins other LA Metro cities in banning sex offenders.
At first sight when I read the headline in this mornings Pasadena Star News my parent hat was on and thought bravo keep the child sex offenders at bay. Then I got to thinking, do we have a civil liberty issue at hand? What’s to stop them from crossing the city limit anyway? Monrovia joined... »
Nothing Personal, I Don’t Hate the 323 Area Code. I Just Like 213 A LOT Better.
Yesterday, while taking down a co-workers phone number, I found myself freaking out (with joy) over his 213 phone number. See, we’re a dying breed, us hangers-on to the 213 area code. It’s too often I’ve seen people knocking phone numbers associated with central LA and (God forbid!) Downtown. I’ve spent lots of... »
Help Foundation 44 win a Pepsi grant to help 750 SGV kids get into college.
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. It started with an idea. Justin Yuille wanted to help kids get into colleges and new that the average high school counselor is so overwhelmed it isn’t... »
It Caught My Eye: Panes In The Glass
With the amount of biking I do across this city I’ve passed a lot of weird shit dumped on the roadways, but this find stands as one of the most unique. For the better part of this work week I’ve pedaled past the above plate glass panes and after doing so yesterday I vowed... »
I need your spare gold tooth to help my kid’s High School out.
I got this email last night via “School Loop”. My son’s High School is running a fund raiser. What got my attention was the inclusion of “dental” in the list of gold sources that a buyer from Glitterbug will purchase. Yup, dental so if you have a gold tooth you aren’t using please let... »
Consider the Library Card
A library card lives a dreadful and exciting life. Indeed, the library card’s chances of survival after the owner reaches the age of, oh, 21 is slim, as the card, once swiped weekly, is needed less and less over time as buying books – or not reading them – becomes more and more of the... »