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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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!"
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
(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)
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.
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
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.
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
.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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:
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!
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
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!
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?
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.
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?
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"
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.
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.
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.
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!
UTLA drops Kahllid over porn, guns and antisemitism. Notably, however, DSA is still endorsing him. To them, Kahllid's antisemitism is a feature, not a bug.