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Twist Street
Sam Westing, Barney Northrup, Sandy McSouthers, Julian R. Eastman, & Me
Pereira and Luckman, Original LAX Scheme, Courtesy LAX Flight Path Learning Center, part of the upcoming Never Built:Los Angeles show at the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles. (The Overdrive show at the Getty is pretty decent if you like this kind of architecture thing).
At first I was confused how some lady talking about her dead dog could have been the top headline at the LA Times but then I realized that the second runner-up was “CDC: Poop in pools more common than one may think.” That was the #2 story (literally)…
Other big headlines from the LA Times today: “Using the homeless to bash Abercrombie & Fitch not cool” and “Viral star Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker wanted for murder”.
Currently waiting for the the gas man, meanwhile just down the street….
I like living in Culver City/Palms because everything I need is in walking distance— Ralphs, restaurants, pipe bombs.
Richard Morris Jr., 59, was found guilty Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court of [the 1987] killing [of] James Stockwell, who owned the Mustang Topless Theater in Santa Ana and went by the name Jimmy Casino.
Casino, 48, a convicted felon who bragged he had influence with organized crime figures, and his 22-year-old girlfriend were ambushed by two men at his Brea condo. The men raped the woman and shot Casino three times in the head. They then stole furs, jewelry and credit cards and drove off in two of Casino’s cars.
In the 15 months after the slaying, one of Casino’s financial backers was shot and blinded, a club bouncer with mob ties was slain and the Mustang was torched by an arsonist.
in 2008, using technology not available at the time of the killing, investigators made a DNA match with Morris, who had been picked up on a DUI charge in Hawaii. That DNA evidence from the rape of Casino’s girlfriend was the key piece of evidence in Morris’ trial.
LA Times. According to the OC Weekly, in the 1980’s, Orange County was the site of a “string of assassinations, professional and otherwise, spotlighting the city’s status as a playground (and killing field) for shady businessmen, drug kingpins and organized crime figures affiliated with what cops dubbed The Mickey Mouse Mafia, who reveled in Newport Beach’s glamorous lifestyle and coke-fueled nightlife scene.” (According to the OC Weekly, the Mickey Mouse Mafia were the targets of a 400 pound Samoan who was robbing cocaine dealers by showing up on their doorstep with flowers…? Cocaine dealers love flowers.)
Dig this paragraph: ”Sigliuzzo was never charged with any crime relating to the Mickey Mouse Mafia. “Everyone says I was a mob enforcer, but that’s never been proven,” he adds. He believes the mob was scapegoated by the police, who had no idea who Orange County’s true arch-criminals really were. Those individuals, he explains, always stay behind the scenes, and their names will never show up in any criminal indictment, much less a newspaper article”.
Jimmy Casino’s assassination- the LA Times article from when it happened, the headline is “ High-Living Hustler’s Last Payoff Is Delivered in Bullets.” That is some Dick Tracy shit. Casino liked to dress like a cowboy; owned hot dog stands; “muscled his way into control of the Classic Cat, a topless bar on Sunset Strip in Hollywood in the early 1970s”; “a slick-talking swindler with a penchant for topless dancers and fancy cars.”
I Would Watch This If It Was a Reality Show: ”Chess playing was a big deal in Los Angeles in the 1930s. In fact, the Los Angeles Times had a Chess Editor, and in 1933 that person was American chess star Herman Steiner, who helped glamorize the game thanks to the support of the Hollywood community. To illustrate the life-size fun of chess, on April 11, 1933, Steiner played Cuban-born chess virtuoso Jose Capablanca in what was known as a “living game,” using people as the pieces on a giant floor board. Living chess games actually date back hundreds of years, but enjoyed a renewed popularity thanks to the celeb-status of chess and chess players in the U.S. and all over the world in the first half of the 20th century.”
![Important excerpts from an interview with the author:
Fittingly, Porter lives in Santa Monica — in fact she lives in an apartment once occupied by the actress January Jones. “She lived there when she was dating Josh Groban — so there’s been hot celebrity sex in my apartment!” says Porter excitedly. [January] Jones, who recently revealed that she ingested her own placenta (dried and powdered) after the birth of her son, is clearly the epitome of a Milf.
“Whole grains have intelligence,” she proclaims, her blue eyes widening. “They literally have intelligence, they have their own DNA. A hunk of meat is very thoroughly dead but if I were to plant a whole grain it would grow so there’s a whole life force in that thing. If you put 1,000 of them in your body, energetically you change. People love to think of food as fuel, which is the most mechanistic, industrial way of looking at food. When I put fuel in my car it doesn’t change the car. But I put food in my body and it becomes an eyeball cell. That is crazy.”
The book — which instructs readers on “your Milfification, Phase One, Two, Three” and even has a chapter called Milf Sex — is a sort of handbook to becoming a Milf.
“This is Milf central,” says Parker, laughing and waving her hand behind us towards Ocean Park Boulevard.
“I’m not a mother but according to Wikipedia, you don’t have to be one to be a Milf.”
“Milf is always a compliment. You never say, ‘Look at that stupid Milf’.”
“Pierce Brosnan had a macrobiotic chef for a long time — who I know.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/de6bbdc215bc27d1419ff6da0bb4d897/tumblr_mja6vtFTi41qabyxlo1_500.jpg)
Important excerpts from an interview with the author:
- Fittingly, Porter lives in Santa Monica — in fact she lives in an apartment once occupied by the actress January Jones. “She lived there when she was dating Josh Groban — so there’s been hot celebrity sex in my apartment!” says Porter excitedly. [January] Jones, who recently revealed that she ingested her own placenta (dried and powdered) after the birth of her son, is clearly the epitome of a Milf.
- “Whole grains have intelligence,” she proclaims, her blue eyes widening. “They literally have intelligence, they have their own DNA. A hunk of meat is very thoroughly dead but if I were to plant a whole grain it would grow so there’s a whole life force in that thing. If you put 1,000 of them in your body, energetically you change. People love to think of food as fuel, which is the most mechanistic, industrial way of looking at food. When I put fuel in my car it doesn’t change the car. But I put food in my body and it becomes an eyeball cell. That is crazy.”
- The book — which instructs readers on “your Milfification, Phase One, Two, Three” and even has a chapter called Milf Sex — is a sort of handbook to becoming a Milf.
- “This is Milf central,” says Parker, laughing and waving her hand behind us towards Ocean Park Boulevard.
- “I’m not a mother but according to Wikipedia, you don’t have to be one to be a Milf.”
- “Milf is always a compliment. You never say, ‘Look at that stupid Milf’.”
- “Pierce Brosnan had a macrobiotic chef for a long time — who I know.”
(Source: Guardian)
Tucked away up Rustic Canyon is a sordid bit of local history. Surrounded by the rugged mountainsides and overgrown by brush, the burned-out and crumbling buildings are what remain of the Murphy Ranch, where during the late 1930s a small group hoping to establish a Nazi utopia built an elaborate infrastructure that included a 395,000-gallon concrete water tank, a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel tank and a power station.
Hikers who reach the site, usually by climbing the creek bed from Will Rogers State Historic Park, are sometimes surprised.
“People who don’t know the story come upon this and say, ‘What the hell is going on?’ ” said Thomas Young, a professional photographer, local historian and president of the Palisades Historical Society.
“Excuse me Mr Mayor, would you consider this dancehall or real roots reggae?”
“A suspect being pursued by the Los Angeles Police Department opted to remain seated in his vehicle after the car was disabled with a spike strip, and inhale an unidentified intoxicant via inflated balloons.”
(Source: laist.com)
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, holding one of the two ROCKET LAUNCHERS that were turned in to the LAPD “no questions asked” gun-buyback program. (P.S. look at this guy’s face).
The official told us this is not that unusual, that “we’ve had them in the past.”
Guns are being put away! #traffic #losangeles #bankrobbery #110North
Hearing that thing get loaded and racked right next to my car was a little bit intimidating.
(via tumblangeles)
Radish, a Yorkshire terrier, barked from the back of a blue Jetta.
Her owner, Steve Haase, was walking across the lanes, updating divers on the situation and photographing the standstill as he went along.
