Month: July 2007

"Skinner Stinks"

They have been around for 18 years now and they are still delightfully subversive and not at all PC. Although they do look slightly better kempt and less grumpy than in the beginning, they certainly are as dysfunctional, funny, yellow-skinned and in one instance blue-haired as ever.

Right. The Simpsons.

With the first feature film coming up, part of the promotion for said film was the introduction of 11 Kwik-E-Marts all over the US (with one in Canada). As this promotion runs for one month only, a quick trip to Burbank to one of the sites was in order.

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Good job, I must say. But my favorite is the grafitti. It is so, so Simpsons!

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D’oh.

Something To Talk About – Update

Unfortunately we broke the record – the season 2006/2007 was the driest for L.A. since rainfall records began 130 years ago.

The total rainfall was 4 inches (10 centimeter). That’s less than a quarter of normal.

Even more disturbing is the fact that the snowpack in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, from where Los Angeles gets about 50 % of its water supply, also marked its second lowest level on record this year.

Officials are hinting that this might force the city into full drought mode this summer, with a much higher occurence of brush fires than normal. The first two major brush fires in May alone (Griffith Park and on Catalina Island) might have been only the first ones of many.

I can’t even think of something funny to say about all of this – it is plain scary.