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@ericspiegelman
Eric Spiegelman
4 years
My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it's called "Why Are You Doing It That Way?" and there are no winners
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1 year
I saw someone post one of these Venn diagrams to explain the British Isles, so I made one to explain Los Angeles:
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7 years
PRIMARY ANY DEMOCRAT WHO VOTES FOR SESSIONS
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7 years
What's funny about snowflakes is that individually they're delicate but in large enough numbers they shut down Washington D.C.
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4 years
@naanking Let's just say lockdown raised the game from little league to the majors
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1 year
Name your favorite Los Angeles restaurant where the food is ehhhhhh but the vibe is perfect. I'll go first CASA VEGA
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4 years
@MegRobertson Rina keeps using the wrong knife for things. And she doesn't care! It's insane
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1 year
For the past 10 years, I have been operating the anonymous account @GPMountainLion . Because I am sad about P22, I decided to come out to LA Magazine, and tell you all what that puma meant to me. The cat, it would seem, is out of the bag.
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5 years
One of the millennials in my office revealed today that she (1) had to Google how to write a check, and (2) recently met a guy, ON VENMO
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6 years
"Beverly Hills school board president asks Trump to stop growth of mass transit in Los Angeles" is a level of toxic NIMBYism I wasn't expecting.
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4 years
Sure, you may talk shit about the east side, the west side, or the Valley --but a True Angeleno can name something rad in every neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Hey @latimes , how can I get a print of this to frame and hang in my kitchen?
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
I'm at a restaurant that serves guacamole for "market price" as if it's chilean sea bass.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Los Angeles, I'm going to tell you a story. Today I had a breakfast meeting in Culver City and a lunch meeting in Pasadena. I know, you probably think this sounds like worst of all driving nightmares. But it wasn't. Because I took THE TRAIN.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
This is like watching "Jaws"
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1 year
@AurKaey this is a venn diagram not a map
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Los Angeles. Here's what you did today. You found 200 masks in your earthquake kits and garages. (We couldn't collect 40 because last minute schedule shift.) But this is really spectacular. These are heading to medical workers around the county. Thank you!!!
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
Also, all these people who think the vibe at Mohawk Bend is perfect...I want you to all go out and experience the world.
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Eric Spiegelman
7 months
Sarah Silverman on the @DemSocialists . Remember: there are multiple elected officials in Los Angeles City Hall who are supported by the DSA, and they are somehow still on board with the DSA's hate mission.
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1 year
@jackiejsmom Yamashiro is an EXCELLENT example of this phenomenon.
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11 years
why not just tow the boat to jail
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6 years
Fun fact I just learned: the street layout of Beverly Hills was designed to evoke the silhouette of an old-timey fancy woman. "They knew that sex sells!" said the tour guide. "The Beverly Hills Hotel was on her bosoms!"
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1 year
@alexcoheninla Turn in your Los Angeles card, this is heresy
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4 years
nobody is doing this
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
4 years
Unable to fly, nostalgic travelers are buying airline food to eat at home
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6 years
This city should throw a parade to celebrate the Los Angeles Times union for running Tronc out of town on a rail.
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1 year
@abhinemani the vibe there is bad acoustics
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Welcome to the Hamptons We've got Côtes du Rhône We got lots of charcuterie And we start drinkin' at noon
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Pitchfork
5 years
Guns N’ Roses aren’t happy with the company making a drink called Guns ‘N’ Rosé
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Would it have killed you to write "outta court"
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
5 years
'Straight Outta Compton' lawsuit tossed out of court
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@Nicole_Cliffe My mom took me to Whole Foods after I had my wisdom teeth pulled, where she said I "walked around talking to everyone like I was mayor of the place." Also I insisted on buying a dozen twice-baked potatoes from the prepared foods counter.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Hey Los Angeles: Do you have an earthquake kit? Does it have N95 masks in it? This emergency is bigger than an earthquake. If you can donate your extra masks to people who need them, I can help get them picked up from your house and delivered where they need to go.
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Eric Spiegelman
7 months
For those of my friends who support @PplsCityCouncil , their feed over the last 12 hours is revealing how much of an antisemitic, terrorist sympathizer organization they truly are. They're cheering on the murder and kidnapping of women, children and the elderly.
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4 years
The fact that Neil Gorsuch, a strict textualist, and Antonin Scalia, also a strict textualist, came to opposite conclusions about gay rights, tells me that maybe that strict textualism isn't actually a thing.
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Eric Spiegelman
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@Nicole_Cliffe My 9th grade English teacher accused me of plagiarism on the very first assignment. Made me show her other examples of my writing.
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
United Farm Workers is giving out these cards.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
A writer sent me a screenplay he wrote about a woman he was in love with in college, but didn't return his affection. As a favor I sent it to one of my producer clients. In an unexpected twist the producer was the woman he wrote the screenplay about.
@adribbleofink
Aidan Moher
4 years
Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
He shot himself before they could find him. Literally everyone knows that.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
It is a "miracle" how fast the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were able to find the demented shooter and stop him from even more killing!
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@Nicole_Cliffe On 3-2-1 Contact, when Trini got stuck in the desert. I was 5. Half the women I dated ended up looking like Trini. My wife looks like Trini.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
I want to share one more photo with you all from today's mask drive. This is Michael Osment, one of our three volunteer riders, with a backpack full of masks. Photographed by Julian, one of our other volunteers. Angelenos do good, kind things and we also look cool doing them.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Elizabeth Warren put this billboard up in the middle of downtown San Francisco.
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@Nicole_Cliffe I was at a new school. I was a good writer. I was afraid to write again for 3 years.
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Officials further advised Angelenos to stick to the rivers and the lakes that they're used to.
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@gregorcorp "Canter's" is such a harsh truth.
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Eric Spiegelman
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Side bet: if the Giants win, Texas has to legalize gay marriage.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
nbd just casting my vote at the home of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Normal day in Hollywood
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
Los Angeles should remove all car lanes from 6th Street and turn it into a bikes-only avenue from Alameda to San Vicente.
@alanthefisher
Alan Fisher
1 year
Post an opinion of transit or planning that is controversial/bait
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
TELL THE DEMOCRATS TO STAND UP OR WE WILL PRIMARY THEM INTO THE FOOTNOTES OF HISTORY
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
This is still happening, folks.
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
@ftrain @richziade 2) A supermarket is one of the only forms of standalone distribution warehouse zoned for residential areas.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
@daveweigel Boyle Heights in Los Angeles:
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Eric Spiegelman
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(Also I refuse to put a green circle around "the east side" because we're currently in a quiet period of this particular war so let's all just enjoy that for as long as we can)
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Eric Spiegelman
2 years
Putting that @LATACO 69 list to the test... and this place has a line at 11pm!
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Eric Spiegelman
5 months
Ohtani cost more than the gondola
@UrbanizeLA
Urbanize LA
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Final EIR released for $500M Dodger Stadium gondola
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Eric Spiegelman
3 months
The Los Angeles chapter of the DSA is endorsing Kahllid Al-Alim for LAUSD board, a guy who wants to make "the Bible of new antisemitism" MANDATORY READING in schools. Folks, you cannot make this stuff up.
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Eric Spiegelman
6 years
If you touch a lawyer on the shoulder in the light of a full moon then circle around him three times you get lawyer-client privilege on everything you say the whole month, not many people realIze this is how it works
@kyledcheney
Kyle Cheney
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NEW: @DonaldJTrumpJr invoked *attorney-client privilege* to avoid telling House intel committee about discussions with his father about the Trump Tower/Russia meeting. @RepAdamSchiff doesn’t believe the claim is valid.
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@NateSilver538 Usually when a lawyer lies under oath they are subject to discipline by the bar.
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Eric Spiegelman
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@Nicole_Cliffe Harvard fucking Westlake.
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Eric Spiegelman
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Los Angeles, this is antisemite Sim Bilal. He was one of the people who shut down a debate at Temple Beth Hillel in March 2022. Now he's trying to shut down Gal Gadot's screening of Hamas massacre footage. He was also a paid consultant to City Controller @kennethmejiaLA .
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
Seriously though can you White House people give just ONE scoop to the Los Angeles Times
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
In honor of P-22, I hiked to the place I'm pretty sure this photo of him was taken. Let me know if you want directions --it's a pretty short hike with abundant parking at the trailhead, right next to the zoo (of course).
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Hey Los Angeles: Do you have an earthquake kit? Does it have N95 masks in it? We are doing another mask drive this weekend. If you can donate your extra masks to health care workers who need them, I can help get them picked up from your house and delivered to hospitals.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
My dad just emailed me an article he wants me to read. He printed the article off a website, scanned it, then sent me the PDF of the scan. The URL is at the bottom of the page.
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Eric Spiegelman
13 years
I wonder if all the Siris get together in some iCloud chatroom after work and bitch about the stupid shit people ask them.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Inspired by that article in @theLAndmagazine , I visited one of the last Pioneer Chicken restaurants. It's like a 1970s Los Angeles time capsule in here. Carmelita, hold me tighter! So good. So greasy.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Over three consecutive weekends, you all donated over 500 masks just on the collection runs I coordinated. @MasksForDocs as a whole has collected literally thousands more. THANK YOU, LOS ANGELES
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Los Angeles. We are doing more mask pickup runs this weekend. Do you have masks to donate? We'll come get them! Your donations are making a big difference. Check your earthquake kits! Check your garages! Find those masks! And please DM me to schedule a pickup. #masksfordocs
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Eric Spiegelman
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@katienotopoulos the 1994 Northridge earthquake
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@G8090Tom @RedwoodGirl it is not a map it's a chart
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Angelenos! Look what you did today. We collected roughly 220 N95 masks in under 2 hours. This is driver @natgale_ who did an eastside route. And @gabyd did a westside route. Gaby brought her masks to Cedars! Thank you, Los Angeles! #masksfordocs
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Eric Spiegelman
2 years
Another fantastic recommendation from the @LATACO 69 list: Taquería San Miguel at Hooper and 10th.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Every movie now shooting in Georgia and accepting Georgia tax credits for production should add an abortion scene, so that the people of Georgia fund a pro-choice protest against their own government.
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Eric Spiegelman
9 months
Do yourself a favor and check to see if you live in a flood hazard zone. They are scattered around Los Angeles. For example: Griffith Park Boulevard is a flood hazard zone. There's a long flood hazard zone in East Hollywood around Normandie and Melrose.
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@jenn_swann
Jennifer Swann
9 months
Anyway, you can check to see if you live in a flood zone here:
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
@theglutster waiting for someone to say Edendale
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Eric Spiegelman
3 years
Sure, you should so and support @ANDREWTI and @TrondyNewman as they go indie, but you should also visit their website because this is the funniest thing I've seen today:
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@TrondyNewman
Tawny “My Name is Tawny” Newsome
3 years
So @yoisthisracist listeners should know by now that @ANDREWTI and I left Earwolf to go independent. Thanks (you’re Ones of the Good Ones) for the support and for sticking through the transition. Here’s that exciting next step we’ve been teasing!
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Eric Spiegelman
6 years
LA malls at their peak cultural relevance, ranked 11) Laurel Plaza 10) Glendale Galleria 9) Fashion Square 8) The Americana 7) Westfield Century City 6) 3rd Street Promenade 5) Del Amo Fashion Center 4) Westside Pavillion 3) The Grove 2) Beverly Center 1) Sherman Oaks Galleria
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Eric Spiegelman
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You have to at least accept the possibility that the current editorial slant of the LA Times is partly responsible for the layoffs.
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Eric Spiegelman
2 years
New bridge, new hat. Get your bridge at the LA River bike path. Get your hat at @LATACO .
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Eric Spiegelman
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Congratulations to @JTOWNACTION for turning out 12 people to their antisemitic protest tonight at the Museum of Tolerance. Looks like even your membership knows how much of a joke you are!
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Eric Spiegelman
6 years
Under the ethics rules of all state bars and the federal bar, lying under oath --even a white lie-- is grounds for suspension from the practice of law. What message does it send to the entire legal system if we give this Supreme Court nominee a pass?
@NateSilver538
Nate Silver
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Yeah, I don't get why this isn't more of a part of the conversation. Also, these lies were almost daringly cynical—hard to categorically disprove (*prove* to me that Kavanaugh & buddies didn't have their own non-canonical definition of "boofing") but just not at all plausible.
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Eric Spiegelman
6 years
This kid caught Machado's home run. He is going to have a great day at school Monday.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
Angelenos are Socialists at parties but Libertarians in their cars.
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Eric Spiegelman
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California just announced a $9 billion budget surplus. We also have $2 billion in unspent bond money earmarked for homelessness. There are 134,000 homeless in California. Quick math: We have $82,000 to spend per person to fight homelessness. Maybe let's build some housing?
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Right now there are three protests in various states of unrest across Los Angeles and still Angelenos are like "that's not the Fairfax District, it's Mid-City"
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
I recommend reading this thread. I recommend voting for @AdamSchiffCA for any goddamn office he wants.
@aliasvaughn
Ale
7 years
1. Let's sum it up in order of appearance in the past 2 hrs: 1. White House counsel orders staffers not to delete anything Russia-related
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
I hope everyone is paying attention to the rising chorus of "police unions are the problem" --because police unions are the primary barrier between what the protestors want and making anything happen.
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
(Actually, is all of San Bernardino County in the Greater Los Angeles Area or just a part of it?)
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Eric Spiegelman
7 years
I will never support a Calexit, but I feel this sentiment.
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
Some of the people responding to this know what I'm talking about. Others clearly lost their taste buds to COVID.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
@DaveHolmes is it too much to ask for frikkin sharks with frikkin laser beams attached to their heads
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Eric Spiegelman
1 year
Had not seen this particular photo of P22 before. I have stood on this very spot. It's near the Skyline Trail, in back of the zoo. That's the 134, heading to Glendale.
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Eric Spiegelman
2 years
Another incredible recommendation from the @LATACO 69 list: Perro 110, which is at 888 Fig from 11a-3p. This list has not steered me wrong.
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
@tamzen1994 This is actually correct.
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Eric Spiegelman
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It's telling that @mikebonin , who has an opinion about everything that happens in Los Angeles, is absolutely silent about the @DemSocialists revealing themselves as a hate group.
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Eric Spiegelman
5 years
@EmilyGould Do you have a tote filled with totes?
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
Angelenos! We are doing multiple mask pick-up runs starting tomorrow (Sunday) at noon, covering most of Los Angeles. Do you have masks to donate? We'll come get them! Check those earthquake kits!
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Eric Spiegelman
4 years
L.A. Portmanteaux: Ranked 10) pandepocalypse (see below) 9) RoxSan Pharmacy 8) Glenfeliz 7) Brangelina 6) Desilu 5) Tehrangeles 4) Villaraigosa 3) Carmaggedon 2) threepeat 1) Wiltern
@LAist
LAist
4 years
It's normal to be stressed during a pandepocalypse. The important thing right now is self-care
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