Thu 5 Jul 2012
Observations
Posted by PJ under observations, scenes from the commute, tweets
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2 Jul
A literal rat race: two competitors chasing each other across the eaves of the porch. Rats endemic to most L.A. neighborhoods, even nice 1s.
27 Jun
There’s a research assistant here that sounds uncannily like Tobey Maguire. I want to say, “Spidey, is that you?”
25 Jun
The sleek young mother in the park with the ponytail halfway down her back bouncing her toddler on her knee while he laughed and looked.
He looked quite dapper in his navy and gray striped jumpsuit. I don’t know why I assumed he was male, I just did.
24 Jun
If a cat barfs in an out of the way place that no one will see or step on, do you still have to clean it up? A purely rhetorical question.
23 Jun
I used to have an encyclopedic memory & now it’s complete dreck. Ou sont les nieges downtown?
23 Jun
Life is what teaches you about your soul. Trying to withdraw from it only teaches you about the echo chamber inside.
10 Jun
The irony is not lost on me: my bookmark for The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is my CWA membership card.
I haven’t been union for years but am proud I once was.
9 Jun
Never meet the eye of the little old lady in the cat food aisle unless you want a half hour conversation about her poobers. 1/2
I expect to be that lady someday soon but for now I’m keeping my head down.
8 Jun
I’d sing “Hope I die before I get old” but it’s too late for that.
7 Jun
Global warming is a fact, but I sometimes think even scientists occasionally fall prey to millennialism. Millennialism is also a fact.
7 Jun
So, are “scientific” predictions of the end to be taken more seriously than loony Mayan predictions?
Jun6
The middle-aged woman at the vet’s office with so much collagen she could barely speak.
