LA Link Dump

Let’s stay in LA for the news a bit, shall we?

- If you read this headline quickly enough, it sounds like they’re talking about the greatest NFL franchise ever (bold and caps mine): “Los Angeles Taco Trucks can stay put again.” [LA Times]

- Some guy has crashed his car into the gates of the Playboy Mansion twice in the past two weeks. Make your own jokes in the comments section. [LA Times]

- Hey, LA cops accidentally shoot at innocent people all the time! This time, a cop was aiming for a robbery suspect but hit a Metro bus instead. No wonder they say public transit in LA is horrible. There were no injuries, but one woman is being treated for anxiety. Expect a $200 million lawsuit to be forthcoming. [LA Daily News]

- And speaking of public transit, construction workers in Downtown LA found old trolley car rails buried beneath six inches of asphalt. You see, LA used to be a city you didn’t need a car to get around before an American automobile company bought the public transit system and ran it into the ground to bolster its own sales. That’s not a joke. [blogdowntown]

LA Will Do

Ah, the scenic LA River. Beautiful, ain’t it? My apartment is literally across the street from this strange abomination of concrete and nature. It runs 52 miles through the Valley to Long Beach, cutting off roads and forcing drivers to take alternate routes. It’s just one of the many weird things that make LA LA.

I get asked a lot what LA is like compared to Philly. Which is funny, because when I hear people say they’re from Peoria or Billings or whatever, no one is dying to hear about what life is like there. But there seems to be a genuine curiosity about Philadelphia as a city that I can’t quite explain. People want to know about it.

“Philadelphia, huh? What’s that like?”

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