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Play while you read: “Blinded By The Light” - Manfred Mann
Thirty-six hours straight! When someone asked me what I was up to this weekend, that’s how long I claimed I was going to sleep. I figured that was about how long it would take for life to finally leave me alone. If I could sleep [...]

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Play this while watching: “Dog House Blues” - Bill Monroe

The adventures of Peri and Sophie at the dog park, gettin’ into all kinds of good clean trouble. Dont forget to hit the music playbutton too. Wish they could sync up. Thanks to Greg for coining the term “DPU”.

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Play this: “Alligator Wine” - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
It’s just another day in the Valley:
“That’s kind of the problem with wild animals - they do grow.” - Kathy Davis, assistant general manager of Snark & Sarcasm the Los Angeles Animal Services Department
Alligator found in Valley home - LA Daily News.

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“Advance Cassette” - Spoon
I took a bikeride in the Valley on a scorching summer afternoon. I rode by this wonderful bit of “found art” near the 170 overpass on Chandler. There was a drug deal going on, so I just kept on going of course. But, an hour later I circled back on the return [...]

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Music to read by: “Cameras in California” — Kirk Wheeler
“Thanks for nothing,” I say to the editor who writes headlines like “Photog Allegedly Assaulted 3 Aspiring Models“  This salacious story of a man arrested for allegedly luring girls to motel rooms under the premise of photographing them to make them stars — only to then [...]

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Listen to this while you read: “Transmission” - Joy Division
Life isn’t perfect.
I know this isn’t a shocking revelation. But, sometimes I’m reminded of this in funny little ways.
About a half a mile from where I live in the urbanish San Fernando Valley sits a large and lonely radio transmission station. An otherwise-vacant city block supports [...]

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This morning I thought I would take the dog Peri on a little morning hike before the heat dropped into the Valley. We just adopted Peri three weeks ago, and I was looking forward to bringing her along on hikes. I picked a close-by trail that a lot of people take dogs on. It’s [...]

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From the LA Crime Blog’s map of crime in the Valley:
A victim was on a bus when she observed suspect-1 exit the bus and remove her bicycle from the bus bike rack. As the suspect rode off slowly on her bicycle, the victim chased the suspect and applied the brakes on the bicycle, causing the [...]

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