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Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Sep 6th, 2010
Roger McCulloch sucks, too, and the LA Times has hit the bottom of the barrel. I picked up pen to paper today, dear readers, to share an article in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, the first section. (I’m a week later reading it, cause of a seriously good party LA Observed threw that weekend.) Roger [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 16th, 2010
Found on CNN: Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of Santa Monica’s The Hump, and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. Although it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whales — an endangered species — is [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 15th, 2010
Got an interesting comment today to a post I made on mountain lions 2 years ago: A good friend (we’re both ultra runners) spotted a mtn lion at the hub (5-way) junction up above the east side of the park in ‘09. I’m emailing him to get more information. I run at least 60 miles [...]
Posted in Creatures, Forest Fire on Sep 24th, 2009
More importantly, who set the Station Fire? If you tell me, I’ll share the $150,000 reward with you, 50- 50. It’s unbelievable, this wretched fire is still burning in places, several weeks later. KHTS: The Station Fire is 94 percent contained, with full containment now expected September 22. So far, the incident has consumed 160,557 [...]
Posted in Creatures on Jun 13th, 2008
Who’s that knocking at my door? What creature of the night came THISclose to my place the other night? Mysterious animal tracks in the snow not-snow. I think the curved lines on the left bottom might be a tail. Or claws… I was so excited when I saw these paw prints on the floor of [...]
Posted in Creatures on Feb 9th, 2008
Some items that caught my interest these past couple of weeks: Mountain lions Opossums Bats I thought I could write 3 short items, but as it happens, I can write short for a living, but not for this blog. So I’ll divide up these 3 fine animals. Mountain lions (cougars.) I noticed that a bike [...]
