Los Angeles is burning in more ways than one - the fires with the resultant bad (sorry, even worse) air quality, and the blistering heat are making it pretty unbearable. This is a photo from the roof of my building with Century City in the background, and that is the smoke layer behind it in the
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08/31/2009
If anyone is looking for residential property in the Los Angeles area and having trouble finding it, maybe I can help. My strengths are in cold calling to source listings. However, it is easier if there is a particular buyer in the background because I can focus my calls better, and hopefully fi
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08/31/2009
Understand that I am not a big sports fan. But I do love baseball, especially when there is a team to follow. The Dodgers have outdone themselves this season and seem to have a lot of heart. There are so many great stories about many of the players this year, and it is a pleasure to watch each
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08/31/2009
I have started a golf group called "Southern California Golf". Hopefully, this will be of interest to the hackers, serious golfers, and everyone interested in the game. I started about 11 years ago, and absolutely love it. You get out on some of the most magnificently beautiful courses in the w
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08/30/2009
Wasn't sure about this one, and I don't particularly like Tarantino's movies, but this is a really good movie. Violence apart, it is a little more flushed out than his usual stuff. I am not sure what all the fuss about Brad Pitt is about. I didn't think he was that good, and I found him annoying
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08/28/2009
O.K. They hit is with a 1% increase in sales tax and almost doubled the car registration fees earlier this year. Now they want to lower the point where each tax bracket begins. What's next, elimination of Prop 13?
08/27/2009
This is my second outing to this restaurant. If you love Indian food, and I do, this is a must-visit: India's Tandoori5468 Wilshire Blvd.Los Angeles, 90036Phone: 323-936-2050 Northern Indian cuisine. Very different and yummy.
08/27/2009
What stress? I am a golfer. You can go out at the twilight time on a great public course, of which Los Angeles has many, and play an 18-hole round, usually in around 4 - 4 1/2 hours for $16. In the summer twilight is 3:00 p.m., plenty of time to finish a round, and in the winter it is 1:00 p.m,
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08/26/2009
Per today's article in the L.A. Times: HOME "PRICES IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA ON THE RISE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE LOCAL MARKET PEAKED IN SEPTEMBER 2006" So you can all stop worrying. The last bastion has fallen!?!
08/25/2009
Every time you drive around the Hollywood/Beverly Hills area you find people selling maps to the stars' homes. They are usually way out-of-date. You also see gaggles (packs, herds?? - not sure what the term is - oh, yes, groups) of tourists in buses gawking at walls and gates obscuring views of
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08/24/2009
