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I only bothered to read about the Walking Man because he was called The Silver Lake Walking Man. Then I saw a small memorial for him on the Silver Lake reservoir path when I ran last night. I hate memorials – they don’t have them back east. It’s like there’s no real land here, or [...]

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I seem to get announcements of meetings, etc, through emails who got them from someone else. I’m not on Councilman LaBonge’s email list, and THAT’S OKAY. But someone sent me this: The Councilman would like to meet for a walk-through at the coyote encounter site at Zoo Dr. Thursday 10/1 @ 3 pm.   We’re inviting public.  [...]

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And neither you nor your family will get bupkis. Case in point: the Interstate 5 pileup in a tunnel near Santa Clarita in October 2007, which killed 3 people and 33 trucks and a car. (33 trucks in a row? Remind me never to drive there.) The crashes turned the nearby tunnel into a fiery [...]

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I’m starting a new category here, From Beyond the Grave. Who isn’t fascinated with death? And who will speak for those who have departed untimely? I am, and I will. I spotted this  item in the LA Times first, but instablogs has more details.  Simon Rios is was an illegal who killed his wife with [...]

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lao found a fascinating article in the Ventura County Star today. Firefighters are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the ground climbed to 812 degrees on Friday for unknown reasons. Possible theories include that natural hydrocarbons such as oil or gas are burning deep in the earth. But nobody knows for sure [...]

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