And so it begins. Three to four months' worth of bone-chilling 50-degree weather and three to four days' worth of rain that mark this season here in Los Angeles. Yesterday, displaced Angeleno creepingivy told me she declined to answer my call because that would mean taking off her gloves in Kansas windchill negative 10000000. Thirteen years in California has ( Read more... )

A broken parking meter is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, especially when it looks like this. Thank you, fellow Angeleno!


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There are parts of the Los Angeles metro area where...I don't feel particularly drawn to them, but I keep ending up there ( Read more... )

So my ex works as a building inspector for the City Of Los Angeles, investigating long-abandoned residences that are garnering complaints from the neighbors. That means he gets paid for this trendy and definitely hype-worthy pastime of urban exploration, and he doesn't have to worry about getting popped for trespassing, either. He trundles in with ( Read more... )

I feel like I should write something about the fires (air: apocalyptic yellow and thick. scene: scary) but instead, I share with you The Wasteland translated into LOLspeak, courtesy of these nice peoplei seez cumean sybil ( Read more... )

I have not stopped excessively perspiring for about a week now. The last two nights have been particularly bad, like toss and turn leaking salty bodily fluids out your face all night bad. So you have a clearer picture of what it's like here in this glorified desert, Saturday night I happened to pass a bank pretty late; their time/temperature ( Read more... )

creepingivy is coming over and first we were supposed to go to the Long Beach Aquarium but then decided on the Getty but then thought we'd go to the Museum Of Jurassic Technology instead and then briefly considered hanging out in a cemetary instead of that and now supposedly we're going to go to the MAC store at Hollywood & Highland but it took her 15 minutes ( Read more... )

I love how all the Angelenos on my friends list are exclaiming IT'S RAINING!!!!! IT'S RAINING!!!!!
It is pretty exciting, though! Woo-hoo! Rain!

9:15am - nevermind, the sun is out again.


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So one minute I'm bopping along the road between the Bird Sanctuary and the Observatory, listening to Kanye demand prenup, kind of singing along, thinking about this cute girl I've just mutually cruised and daydreaming how we're going to run into each other at the Nature Mart afterward, where I'll ask her how her hike was and give her my phone ( Read more... )

Traeh and Longstocking (LONGSTOCKING!*) opened and then TD took the stage and I was transported back to...well...actually, I can't remember the first time I heard them. Early/mid-'90s like everyone else? I close my eyes and see a vague vision of bad haircuts and babydoll dresses ( Read more... )