Comments on: Anyone in LA/Pasdena? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:24:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mollymarie http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57628 mollymarie Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:39:51 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57628 <p>Emptywheel: I’m a big fan. I plan to attend the CMC talk tomorrow. I’m a fellow Amherst-trained (class of 80) blogger (Huffpo) who pores over your posts with avidity and appreciation. I teach at nearby Pomona College, and my one class ends tomorrow at 11:30am and another starts at 1:15pm, but I hope to be able to squeeze in your talk and maybe say hello.</p> Emptywheel: I’m a big fan. I plan to attend the CMC talk tomorrow. I’m a fellow Amherst-trained (class of 80) blogger (Huffpo) who pores over your posts with avidity and appreciation. I teach at nearby Pomona College, and my one class ends tomorrow at 11:30am and another starts at 1:15pm, but I hope to be able to squeeze in your talk and maybe say hello.

]]> By: dday http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57517 dday Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:31:36 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57517 <p>Hey, happy to welcome you. I’m currently working nights, but could certainly steal away if there is some gathering out in Santa Monica. Let us know! (I may be able to make it out to the chat as well)</p> Hey, happy to welcome you. I’m currently working nights, but could certainly steal away if there is some gathering out in Santa Monica. Let us know! (I may be able to make it out to the chat as well)

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57406 JohnLopresti Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:07:47 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57406 <p>Claremont has some <a href="http://rosereport.org/" rel="nofollow">election law specialists with a blog</a>; though that link is overly dedicated to balancing the extremes of the political spectrum. I found a site with a live webcam which rotates so in one minute the websurfer beholds four realtime views of the <a href="http://www.nortonsimon.org/page.aspx?id=668" rel="nofollow">ocean in Malibu</a>. Usually I think of Pasadena as a place near Altadena, but once had a splendid experience at a one-person concert in the art museum there; I suppose there is every likelihood, however, one easily might be heard if uttering indecorous speech sotto voce when contemplating <a href="http://www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions.aspx?id=6" rel="nofollow">miniature figurines in the current art show</a> there, though politics in Pasadena being what they are it might be more appropriate to skip the esthetic experience and instead drive onto the freeway where all manner of irrascible utterances are sometimes helpful for negotiating frozen traffic or for creating the illusion of motion. When progressing past the San Gabriel mountains and nearing Topanga exit one might have a fleeting vision of a quiet moment somewhere, anywhere, even if it is two hundred miles up the coast on a stretch of beach fairly unknown to people except as an attractive scene for its apparent accessibility and solitude by the <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/RPi-ZtbQwhl6Ky5ojLl3Lw?select=f89pNF9wBsE5IiURdVl-Dg" rel="nofollow">ocean rocks on the way to Monterey</a>, excuse the extra photos in the link, somebody’s family album, evidently. There is also something maritime about the ending of the blank verse which is FernHill link to <a href="http://www.undermilkwood.net/poetry_fernhill.html" rel="nofollow">audio of the original author reading</a>; save for replay on laptop when apparently all five lanes are at standstill. I agree it is important to avoid quiet indoor places like museums if one aspires to extensive first amendment protected speech; and ocean has the best of both environments, the loudest voice being only surf or the occasional pier concert.</p> Claremont has some election law specialists with a blog; though that link is overly dedicated to balancing the extremes of the political spectrum. I found a site with a live webcam which rotates so in one minute the websurfer beholds four realtime views of the ocean in Malibu. Usually I think of Pasadena as a place near Altadena, but once had a splendid experience at a one-person concert in the art museum there; I suppose there is every likelihood, however, one easily might be heard if uttering indecorous speech sotto voce when contemplating miniature figurines in the current art show there, though politics in Pasadena being what they are it might be more appropriate to skip the esthetic experience and instead drive onto the freeway where all manner of irrascible utterances are sometimes helpful for negotiating frozen traffic or for creating the illusion of motion. When progressing past the San Gabriel mountains and nearing Topanga exit one might have a fleeting vision of a quiet moment somewhere, anywhere, even if it is two hundred miles up the coast on a stretch of beach fairly unknown to people except as an attractive scene for its apparent accessibility and solitude by the ocean rocks on the way to Monterey, excuse the extra photos in the link, somebody’s family album, evidently. There is also something maritime about the ending of the blank verse which is FernHill link to audio of the original author reading; save for replay on laptop when apparently all five lanes are at standstill. I agree it is important to avoid quiet indoor places like museums if one aspires to extensive first amendment protected speech; and ocean has the best of both environments, the loudest voice being only surf or the occasional pier concert.

]]> By: PJEvans http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57371 PJEvans Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:58:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57371 <p>If you’re going to Claremont, fly into Ontario. It’s only a few miles, and you won’t have to fight nearly as much traffic. LAX is seriously inconvenient for anyplace north of Mulholland and east of I605.</p> If you’re going to Claremont, fly into Ontario. It’s only a few miles, and you won’t have to fight nearly as much traffic. LAX is seriously inconvenient for anyplace north of Mulholland and east of I605.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57361 emptywheel Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:42:30 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57361 <p>Ah, now the desert would have been almost as nice as the ocean.</p> Ah, now the desert would have been almost as nice as the ocean.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57360 bmaz Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:34:23 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57360 <p>Heh, I was planning on going to Pasadena a couple of months ago, but ASU had to go and get the crap kicked out of them by USC on Thanksgiving. Still had a fair shot at it until Hawaii went undefeated and used up the BCS bowl spot ASU would have gotten; no rosey trip for bmaz. Will keep Lucky’s in mind though. I am a long time fan of the King’s Head because it was halfway in between where I lived and worked during several summers; a five minute or less walk in either direction to one or the other. The atmosphere, and especially the food, there is excellent too. Not to mention that EW mandated ocean. In Santa Monica, either Gladsone’s or Kings Head would be outstanding. Probably are a lot of other places too; but I am old school and haven’t been around there that much in a while.</p> Heh, I was planning on going to Pasadena a couple of months ago, but ASU had to go and get the crap kicked out of them by USC on Thanksgiving. Still had a fair shot at it until Hawaii went undefeated and used up the BCS bowl spot ASU would have gotten; no rosey trip for bmaz. Will keep Lucky’s in mind though. I am a long time fan of the King’s Head because it was halfway in between where I lived and worked during several summers; a five minute or less walk in either direction to one or the other. The atmosphere, and especially the food, there is excellent too. Not to mention that EW mandated ocean. In Santa Monica, either Gladsone’s or Kings Head would be outstanding. Probably are a lot of other places too; but I am old school and haven’t been around there that much in a while.

]]> By: anwaya http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57359 anwaya Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:58:54 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57359 <p>bmaz, I have to tell you that Pasadena has Lucky Baldwin’s, many more pumps than the King’s Head, and excellently conditioned beers. Come and have a pint some day.</p> bmaz, I have to tell you that Pasadena has Lucky Baldwin’s, many more pumps than the King’s Head, and excellently conditioned beers. Come and have a pint some day.

]]> By: anwaya http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57358 anwaya Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:52:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57358 <p>I’m letting Asa Hopkins know.</p> I’m letting Asa Hopkins know.

]]> By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57355 Hmmm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:06:00 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57355 <p>Deserts good. We drive from Oakland to Death Valley tomorrow. Supposed to be a good wildflowers year.</p> Deserts good. We drive from Oakland to Death Valley tomorrow. Supposed to be a good wildflowers year.

]]> By: randiego http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/comment-page-1/#comment-57353 randiego Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:03:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/anyone-in-lapasdena/#comment-57353 <p>ok… keep me posted.</p> <p>speaking of the I-10, we went to Joshua Tree NP last weekend - I never realized how close it was. An incredible, amazing, beautiful place.</p> ok… keep me posted.

speaking of the I-10, we went to Joshua Tree NP last weekend – I never realized how close it was. An incredible, amazing, beautiful place.

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