The City E-Zine

This is the scene in front of my apartment building on Woodman Avenue in Sherman Oaks last night around 11:00 pm (with apologies for the grainy cell phone picture). Apparently the woman driving the flipped over SUV was making a left turn into her driveway and someone came around the corner from Moorpark and crashed into her.
Amazingly, everyone [...]

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 ticket [...]

Sacramento meteorologists say we should expect more wet weather this week.
Sigh.
My future garden could use the water. But rainy weather is a pain when I’m trying to stay awake on Eastbound I-80.
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Direct from the Pasadena PIO Ann Erdman on facebook:

Do you feel the need for speed? Well, slow down! The Pasadena Police Department will be enforcing speed limit laws proactively Wednesday 2/17/2010 from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

You’ve been warned.  That is all.

One of my east coast tells is the fact that I only really learned to drive in my 30s. I didn’t drive at all before I moved to L.A. (My native friends, I know, regard this disclosure as only slightly more bizarre than a statement like ”I used to breathe through gills before moving here” or “My parasitic twin [...]