On Name That Los Angeles Neighborhood!
I've lived in at least half of these alleged neighborhoods, and it should be added that the people who live in these places also don't know what to call them. Your elderly landlord is going to have a totally different name for the area in question than the cops or the gardeners or the neighbor film students/band members who moved there six months ago.
Did those blue signs even *exist* before this century? I remember walking back one night about 10 years ago from Jons (now a Vons again) in East Hollywood/Los Feliz/Barnsdall Park/Sunset Junction/LA City College area, along Fountain and just west of Vermont and approaching L. Ron Hubbard Way, and noticing that the mysterious blue-sign naming society had put up a pair of signs on Fountain reading "Little Armenia." Sure, why not Little Armenia? I guess anything is Little Armenia compared to Glendale, even a street of run-down apartment courts owned by retired judges in the valley and a massive old hospital complex now used to torture the Scientology youth of the "Sea Org."
WELL DONE SPIEGELMAN.
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On The Awesome Houseboat That Weed Built
Love this houseboat & this story.
Just when I thought everything had been done with the steel and stained fir and glass look, this guy puts it on pontoons. This boat would be a stunner in the Marin County marina with all those funky houseboats.
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On Where Did All of Los Angeles' Children Go? Who Cares!
I'm no early childhood expert, but I'm guessing that by 2010, many of these lovable moppets transformed into hideous teen-agers.
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On The Perplexing Final Chapter Of San Francisco's Jejune Institute
@whizzard But your interest has been noted, and representatives will assist you in arranging a home visit.
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On It's Time to Ignore the Scary Man with the Bad Hair
As much as I wish Donald Trump would fall off a hooker and break his neck, it's hard to imagine President Trump being any kinder to other millionaires at the expense of *everybody else* than the current president.
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On The End of Lou Reed: HP's "Everybody On" Ad
And then when the cloying arguing about the Velvet Underground becomes too much, you can put the whole playhouse in the recycling bin.
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On God's Wife Almost Got Screwed Out Of The Bible
I will discuss this with you in private, sir.
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On God's Wife Almost Got Screwed Out Of The Bible
Not that relevant anymore? Today in Washington, people claiming divine inspiration from the male half of this bisected god are deciding whether American women will have babies or not, and literally calling for IRS audits for those who have abortions after being raped.
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On The End of Lou Reed: HP's "Everybody On" Ad
CINTRA WILSON wrote that, not me. I cannot make blockquote work in the awl's dumb comment box.
Also Josh, remember how you were going to write a little sumthin' sumthin' for your pals at Wonkette? THEY'RE WAITING. (And by "them" I mean "them.")
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On A Nation Changed: Our New Era After "The Avengers" Trailer
Wow, that looks like ... a movie trailer. Everything in entertainment looks just like that.
Superheroes are the fearmongering spectacle/muscle behind the emptiness of global capitalism. #OccupyThor'sPussy