If you live in Los Angeles then you felt the big one 5.8 earthquake that happened today. This was the biggest earthquake in 14 years and reminded me of the 1989 quake that sent gallons of water splashing out of my pool and onto our deck (this was the earthquake that rocked San Francisco). The building I work in has rollers underneight so it was swaying back for forth for about 30-45 seconds.

Thinking of moving to Los Angeles? Check out the videos below before you make up your mind… who said Angelenos are not tuff?

Judge Judy Taping

PS… when I got home I updated our house earthquake kit.

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For those of you who are not Huell Howser superfans… you must know that it has come to public knowledge that he is allegedly working for THE MAN. This can certainly not be true because everyone knows that Huell would never take bribe money from BIG CORPORATE money bags such as the California Revelopment Association. I think that we should start a defense fund… do you know much he has to pay Louie for his Emmy worthy camera work?

You be judge and watch Huell’s 14 part series on revelopment in California, sponsored by the California Revelopment Association, an organization dedicated to removal of shiftless squatters throughout our Golden, Man Bear State of California. If Wally George were alive today, he would kick those anti progress Commies right out of this God Loving state and send them to some hippie fag place like San Francisco.

According to a CRA statement, “The series presents an opportunity for us to tell the redevelopment story in a compelling and intimate way. Huell and his crew will be visiting redevelopment projects in cities and counties throughout California that demonstrate inspiring, positive elements of redevelopment efforts.”

And if anyone can tell me what time the fire falls in Yosemite, I am dying to know.

Whiskey bottles in mom truck’s bed. Margaritas at the beer garden. Bumps bumping a dude that looked like Brian Setzer. Seeing the most amazing painting of wolf on back of jacket of old dude abducting a boy. Photos of WCKevin and various animal anuses. Smells a plenty. Asking people in line for the Mighty Mighty Bossatones if they were in line for the Pig Races. Yelling expletives at the pigs in pig races and super gay southern young MC ringmastering the races. Feeling sorry for the pigs  named after foods they may someday become. Running in to Tyler from Classix. Riding “Dirty Tarp”.  DIRTY TARP RIDE! Sliding down Euroslide.com. Searching for Art Pavillion. Ended up in “cause pavilion.” Getting information of square dancing lessons. Photos in various stick your head through the hole photo ops. Bumps stuck in a fireman uniform. Brick of curly fries from Juicy’s with bubbling ranch.  Gutter-punks stealing some fried then touching rest of them. Eating them anyway. YUM.  Chocolate dog on a stick really fried tootsie roll. Carnival of products where WC Kevin became the guinea pig for hair removal system. Lady telling Bumps her hand looked old. Planning where we would work if we joined the carnival: Me – Airbrushing things, Bumps – selling hot tubs, WC Kevin – on a ride (DIRTY TARP) where he could scare children. Kitten’s on T-shirts and visors. Obese Young Adult Female dressed like a 4 year old. And finally finding the art pavilion:

We are in our last few hours of freedom while driving in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow if you don’t have your “hands free” device while driving and on the phone L.A.P.D. will give you a ticket.

I’m still using my ear piece that came with my iPhone, so I’m covered… but the rest of you had 22 months to prepare! I did go to the apple store and pick up a bluetooth ear piece for my wife… they only had one left in stock!

Don’t be the first one to get caught with out one!

Saturday June 7th - THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA

MOCA will be presenting a special outdoor screening of “Underground Forces“, a two hour film from Joe Rees and his organization Target Video. The event will feature tons of rare footage of dozens of bands like: Avengers, Bad Brains, Bauhaus, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, Devo, The Dils, Flipper, The Germs, The Gun Club, Johanna Went, the Mutants, Negative Trend, the Plugz, the Ramones, the Screamers, SRL, X, and the Weirdos, among others.

This screening is in conjunction with the J. Paul Getty Museum’s exhibition California Video. You can also get more details at the Target Video Blog.
The details
THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA 152 N. Central Ave., Downtown L.A.
Saturday June 7th
7–9pm: Music set by special guest Henry Rollins
Screening of Underground Forces starts at 9pm

Last night Los Angeles Galaxy hosted the Kansas City Wizards at the HDC. The Wizards were first to hit the sore board late in the fist half with a really great strike by Claudio Lopez (40′). But it was the Galaxy who replied with 3 unanswered goals in the 2nd half.

Landon (Landy Cakes) Donovan was awarded a penalty kick and tallied his 9th goal of the season (54’). Then Edson Buddle followed with his 4th in the 74’ and finally David Beckham scored his 4th of the season with a 60ish yard goal in injury time (kicked from over half of the field)! It was an empty net but what a way to end a game.

The Wizards came close to tying the game but a sliding save from Klien kept the Galaxy’s momentum going an allowed them to win and keep sole position of 1st place.

San Pedro is and neighboring city of my beloved Long Beach. We share the busiest port in the country: Los Angeles Harbor. The town has grown from being dominated by the fishing industry to become primarily a working class town. I recently explored this city for the first time and what I found was cool!

Read more about this jewel along the harbor after the jump.

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Photos by Omar

Last night was a great turn out for RAD. Bike kids came in from all over, one dude road up from Anaheim on his bike.

People carpooled and  layed out in the back of trucks and seemed to have a blast.

The sad part was our favorite Taco cart was missing last night, The taco stands are going to be missed in Los Angeles.
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The Freeway Ride I on Channel 4 News from richie thomassen on Vimeo.

I love riding my bike but this is a little to dangerous for me. Riding my bike on the freeway… this is insane! NBC picked up on it and aired it on Mother’s Day.

Also don’t forget this week is Ride Your ride a bike to work for the week.

Thursday is Bike Instead of Work Day. cyclists will ride from the Hollywood/Western Metro Station to City Hall to USC. There will also be pit stops to pick up free gear around Los Angeles County.

If you like night rides then you can also participate in the Whateves Thursday night bike ride… “Whereeves Tonight“.

Now you have no excuses.

Saturday night the Los Angeles Galaxy played the current MLS champions the Houston Dynamo at the Home Depot Center.

The Galaxy battled back to tie the game, and as usual it was the Beckham Donovan show. Between them they have scored all six goals for the team in 2008. Tonight was no different, Landon Donovan scored 2 goals both assisted by David Beckham. The first goal is my favorite by far. A diving header, can’t beat that.

The result left Los Angeles with a 1-2-1 record while the defending Major League Soccer champion Dynamo (0-1-3) was left still seeking its first victory.

Next week Chivas USA vs. LA Galaxy Superclassico. When these two team play each other they are always intense. Expect smoke, expect big flags, expect fights and expect the LA Riot Squad to go ape shit.

Animals are not toys. Animals are not toys. Animals are not toys. If you try and lay down next to a horse it will get scared, kick you in the chest and you will die. Animals are not toys.

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So I was waiting to meet with my adviser to go over some finance-ez this morning and her assistant informed me that she needed a moment before meeting with me because she had just witnessed someone jumping off the Colorado Bridge on her way to work, yikes! Moment of silence for the John/Jane Doe… I remember hearing about the bridge when I lived in Pasadena and how it’s notorious for jumpers. I guess it has been nicknamed “Suicide Bridge” ever since it was built in 1912, especially after there was about 50+ suicides during The Great Depression.

I came across this site and it has some pretty interesting urban legends about ghost that haunt the bridge and the dried up Arroyo Seco Riverbed down below. - Source Weird California.

photos by madex on sunset and Hyperion
This new guerrilla advertising for itsawonderful-world.com is weird.

The site says its going to launch on the Jan 8th 2008, and the myspace page says the Dec 12th 2007.

Either way, these are pasted all over mideast los angeles, silverlake to echo park.

other posters include, Skulls, Andy Warhol, Madonna and Britney kissing.

with minimal internet investigating, I figure this is the dude in charge, a street artist named zevs.

other works here

dont forget to add to the google map

I am pretty sure this is how Audrey Hepburn looks these days.

The best view of downtown is from this grassy hill. I like to lay here whenever possible.

The space invaders mosaics are pasted world wide, here is a new one in my neighborhood.

The artist must be a MAC guy.