Ellison Wonderland

How could I have lived in Los Angeles so long and not know that Harlan Ellison's old house is a landmark.  Not open to the public, it is nevertheless maintained and listed/marked on Google maps.  Good for you Harlan, rest in peace or in hell as desired.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIuUgh9T0PJ/?hl=en

I came across Harlan's house on Google Maps when I was researching Fossil Ridge Park.

Fossil Ridge Park and Corruption in Los Angeles

In researching places within striking distance where I can walk at high speed and get good aerobic activity and yet minimize toxic waste input.  As you might imagine this can be difficult in the greater Los Angeles area unless you are in a few well understood regions: for example near the beach or in the Santa Monica mountains.  There are some other regions too, often mediated or enabled by so-called micro-climates.  

So one obvious general area is south of here in Van Nuys in or near Mulholland Drive.  I came across a park I had never heard of before: Fossil Ridge Park.  What I did not realize is that this park, although difficult to visit and use, features one of the great attributes of Los Angeles: corruption in the service of real estate development.

But be careful, what you read on the always useful and informative Internet may be nothing more than self serving bullshit.  See for example:

https://thepregopizza.com/top-sights/fossil-sherman-oaks-ca/

 

So I feel like shit

because the fucking medical community wont give me anything for panic attacks, I have to suffer and be fucking miserable and maybe just kill mjyself fuck you fuck all of you

HL Notes for Cleanup

On a dreary day I started my usual bs of oversharing and HL told me she wanted to hear none of it.  May be I should go to a synagogue, she suggested.  I think I will ask her if she has ever been to a synagogue, and, if not why she should suggest it.

LW notes for Cleanup

Its all part of tidying up the messy life.  I once asked LW to help me find a job and he laughed at me and told me I was pretty much worthless.  A lifetime of friendship and this is what you get.  Oh dear.  Well he is dead now and he suffered and I had nothing to do with that.

Cleanup is that part of the work where we discuss some individuals and how they acted.

Almost Done With Kaiser

I had heard mixed things about Kaiser and I can tell you they are all true.  Not the slightest compassion, or humanity.  Good vaccine coverage.  In the absence of anything else, probably a good choice. Met good people at the lower levels who really tried.  But the doctors themselves, those in charge, did not help.  Stay away.

But the reality is if you're on Kaiser you don't have insurance anywhere else which I needed today I could have died no one would have cared least of all Kaiser. At

Corrupt & Stupid Healthcare

By law, the stupid healthcare systems  ask the patient if they feel safe.  But how can anyone feel safe with the rapist pig as president?  What are they even thinking by asking this question.  How stupid, how bureaucratic, how useless.

No of course I dont feel safe.

The iPhone and the Doggy

My girlfriend is playing with her dog.  Suddenly the iPhone wakes up and starts chatting with her about how great it is to have a "furry friend" and giving helpful advice.  Is this our future?  Your appliances spying on you 24 hours a day and sending reports to local law enforcement.  Officer!  I heard Jill playing with her dog!  

What a nightmare this world of AI will be.

Into the Gutter

I can not afford to come to one of my favorite persons farewell party

I am not a good friend therefore, 

I am weak and poor

I never had the chance to do some sort of show for the dome with carter

whether orion or any other mythological creature or astronomical structure

I live in a degraded environment with dirt and filth in the air 

and degraded humans outside slaves to late stage predatory capitalism 

as we all are

what can I do to make this better

in a failed authoritarian america?

The Original Antifa Logo

For those of you who do not already know it, while there is no Antifa in this country there is, or was, one in Germany after World War 2.  Here is, what may be, their original logo.