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Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Is it love or obsession? How to stop
How to stop being obsessed and finally love in a healthy way
But I can't help it! I'm in love!
I need to clear my mind to be free
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
Vegan Pool Party Book Release, LA
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| This is a pool, not the beach, so please consider donning a sarong when not in the water (IV). |
WHAT HAPPENED?
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| Plant-based hemp swimwear, (Natasha Tonic) |
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| Hemp bikinis (Natasha Tonic) |
The shocking announcement was made after introductions by Paige for Samantha about the goals and aims of Plant Based Treaty. Justine covered the Campaign for Banning the Retail Sale of Animals in L.A. The shock was that Vanessa is moving to the south of France to start a vegan commune (intentional community) around a chateau, where she will then run for mayor and create a vegan city. First she writes a book on fairies, loses her health clinic (ElloraWellness.com) in the Eaton Fire, and decides to uproot and resettle in Europe. But she will travel between here and there and is still leading a tour to the ancient Mayan archeological sites in Mexico in 2025 (after a successful trip to Egypt). Post party we made plans to eat Thai vegan food at THE VEGAN JOINT, 980 S. San Pedro St., DTLA
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| Invitation design by illustrator and vegan chef Annie Vitality (A. Vandenheuvel) |
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Vanessa Marsot and Annie Vitality launch their new book, Dreams of a Dragonfly, and sign copies of this vegan fantasy story on Saturday, July 12th, poolside in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Enjoy mindfulness meditation, Native American land acknowledgement, yoga, vegan food, swimming and splashing, socializing, fun and games, a literary launch, and a summer night under the full moon.
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| Vanessa Marsot (Ellora Wellness) |
Chef Rawsheed is preparing a special vegan meal, including fresh juice, appetizers, salad, raw and cooked pizzas and desserts (menu subject to change).
🎟️ TICKETS include:
- Chef Rawsheed’s enchanted vegan meal (magical dinner) 🦜
- Exotic beverages 🐠
- FREE yoga class 🧘♀️
- Donation to Campaign for Banning the Retail Sale of Animals in LA
- 🎟️ $20 Venmo or @lalawkitty with questions or to get the address. Email: lalawkitty@gmail.com
- RSVP: Book Launch Pool Party, Sat, July 12, 2025, 3:00 PM
Free to attend
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| Sign: "Do not be deceived. You are headed for Hell! [for wearing skimpy swimwear, heathens]" |
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| What is there to eat on this green planet? |
No ticket purchase is necessary to attend! However, for magical dinner, individual tickets are only $20. Please note in your RSVP "No Ticket" if planning to opt out of dinner. That way we have an accurate count for supplies.
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| Time to play in the pool under the Cali sun |
FOOD ABUNDANCE: Guests are welcome to bring fruit and vegan snacks and drinks to share.
Guests are encouraged to bring a swimsuit, towel, lawn chairs, and outdoor or pool games.
Prepare to dance, sing karaoke, swim and play.
Dreams of a Dragonfly
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| O, Buddha, do dragonflies dream and, if they do, what about? |
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| Dreams of a Dragonfly |
Join her on this fantastical adventure and you, too, could learn their secrets and how to advocate for them. More
CO-HOSTS
Vanessa Marsot, Annie Vitality, Justine Block, Kim Delgado, Paige Parsons Roache in coordination with:
- Ellora Wellness
- Vegan Spirituality
- Plant Based Treaty
- Celebration of Fruit
- Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal
- Dharma Buddhist Meditation (LA-wide Meetups*)
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| Native Tongva/Kizh land acknowledgement and mindfulness practice with Seven |
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| What should I wear? Seven hot sexy but unnatural vegan bikini pics (collegepill.com) |
VEGAN POOL PARTY BOOK RELEASE
Illustrator vegan chef Annie Vitality - Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00-11:00 pm
- Dinner served 5:00-8:00 pm
- (For guests arriving after 8:00 pm, we are unable to guarantee dinner availability)
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| 10 Spots for Vegan and Gluten-Free Food in Los Angeles 2025 (Veggies Abroad) |
What is the "California" lifestyle? - Well, The Graduate comes close.
What time will the monks arrive for the ceremony?
- *(Disclosure Project) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or with dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
- (Nature Center) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or w/ dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM
- (PasaDharma) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or w/ dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM
- Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Alkaline diet is the way to good health
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| The word vegetarian does not come from vegetable but from vegetus (life, growth). |
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All non-starchy vegetables and fruits have an alkaline-forming effect on our body's fluids. Potatoes and bananas are slightly more acidic than most other vegetables and fruits.
For this reason, to be alkaline and healthy, non-starchy fruits, berries, and vegetables form the main bulk of our diet.
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| Food Combining Myths, Science (nutriplanet.org) |
Most legumes are semi-alkaline, while whole grains are more acidic. Refined grains (like white rice or milled flour) have an acidic effect on the body.
All animal products -- slaughtered flesh, eggs, fish, dairy -- in addition to extracted, process, simplified sugars have an acidifying effect. Therefore, these foods should be eliminated from the diet or greatly reduced.
Go nonviolent and vegan? Not necessarily. For example, a vegan living mainly on protein bars would end up with an acidic and unhealthy bloodstream due to the sugar and grain, while an omnivore eating lots of fruits and vegetables and a small amount of meat and dairy might stay alkaline and healthy.
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| Food combining for digestion (True Activist) |
There is no need for paleo folks and vegans to go to war in a battle of words regarding what is right or wrong with an alkaline diet. The facts speak for themselves.
In essence, we can become acidic on any diet if we eat too many acid-forming foods: too much animal protein and fats, too much sugar and refined carbs, as well as too many deep-fried foods.
Whether to be a vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore is, in the end, more a question of ethics. We can be healthy with any label, provided we eat alkaline foods.
So if, on the one hand, one dislikes killing animals, impregnating, imprisoning, and otherwise making animals miserable and instead wants to be kinder to them and the planet, then a vegan diet is the healthiest and most environmentally-friendly.
If, on the other hand, one just wants to stay healthy, then junk (processed) foods and animal foods need to be minimized or eliminated altogether. Whatever one eats, the main bulk of our intake needs to be mainly vegetables and fruits.
- “Come Heal @ Prama” (prama.org)
- My Journey Toward Sowa Rigpa – The Science of Healing (Buddhistdoor Global)
- A Vegan Diet for an alkaline body (prama.org); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Physical immortality now: DNA longevity
I edited my DNA on a secret island (to be able to live forever)
(Bryan Johnson) Before and after my $2 million anti-aging routine
Who is this would-be immortal?
Does Bryan Johnson’s $2 million biohacking routine work? We test it | Hard Reset
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| Plant based vegan gives life so gets more life |
About the episode: 18-hour fast, 100 supplements, bizarre tech -- we tried Bryan Johnson’s age-reversal routine for 1 month.
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
Vegan Mexico: Soul-Satisfying Regional Recipes
Jason Wyrick (walmart.com via bing.com); Crystal Q., Ananda (Dharma BM), Wisdom Quarterly
Vegan Mexico: Soul-Satisfying Regional Recipes from Tamales to Tostadas
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| Authentic indigenous vegan food |
Wyrick’s delicious recipes capture the essence of the moles of Oaxaca (\wah-ha-kah\), the Mayan legacy of the Yucatan, the smoky chile flavors of Zacatecas, the fruit-centric Southern regions, the European-Spanish influence of Veracruz, and the street food of Mexico City.
Recipes include:
- Oaxacan-Style Black Beans
- Potato and Drunken Bean Gorditas
- Chilled Avocado Soup
- Tofu and Tortillas in Red Salsa
- Creamy Green Enchiladas
- Mushroom Crêpes in Poblano Chile Sauce
- Flan with Apricot Preserves
- Muddled Sage
- Margarita
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| Paradise Garden Plant-Based 1 |
Readers will come away with a new understanding and admiration for the diversity and flavors of Mexico and be inspired to make delectable main dishes, soups, spreads, sandwiches, breads, desserts, snacks, and much MORE.
“Any vegan interested in cooking unique Mexican dishes must have this book. Those not interested in making the recipes will find it a fascinating read and appreciate the research the author has undertaken to deliver a comprehensive look at Mexican cuisine.”
— Vegetarians in Paradise
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Redefine Meat: plant-based 3D printed steak
RedefineMeat.com - New Meat, No Compromise, Oct. 6, 2023; Guy Raz, How I Built This (NPR, 10/15/23); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Ayala Meidan Rimoni of the vegan company Redefine Meat (© RedefineMeat.com) |
“Our new-meat is a ‘hero item’ on menus, appealing to meat lovers and vegans”
Israel’s Redefine Meat is known for its unique “new-meat” technology, said to be able to replicate any cut of meat in plant-based form.Since the meat alternatives launched commercially in 2021, they have received extensive praise — including from Michelin-star chefs — with the company raising a huge $135 million to expand globally.
Redefine Meat has gone on to partner with Europe’s largest meat importer, Giraudi Meats, allowing for an expansion across multiple countries.
The brand is now available at numerous restaurants Europe-wide, adding a record 70 new food service customers during this year’s Veganuary campaign alone.In the United Kingdom, Redefine Meat has joined forces with gourmet food distributor Classic Fine Foods to make its products available at high-end restaurants across the country.
GlobalMarketing Manager Ayala Meidan Rimoni told us more about the company’s ongoing expansion and innovations.
Which products are available for hospitality and food service and where?Redefine Meat’s portfolio of new-meat products is unique in today’s market, both for stand out quality and moreish taste, and how extensive the range is, especially compared to other brands.
We have two lineups, one catering for retail and the other Redefine Pro Series for food service, which currently includes over ten products.
Together with our brand-new category of pulled meats, launched late last year, these include the Redefine Premium Burger, Lamb Kofta, Beef Mince, Pulled Beef, Pulled Pork, Bratwurst, Merguez Sausage. and Beef Flank.
©Redefine Meat
Redefine Meat is already available at close to 4,000 outlets across Europe and Israel, ranging from restaurants and steakhouses to hotels, cafes, and more.
More recent additions include established nationwide chains like The ASH in Germany, the steakhouse chain Loetje in the Netherlands, and the popular craft brewery BrewDog in the UK.
For a full list of locations, see here...
Friday, October 6, 2023
Develop and practice Reiki skills (10/18)
Kerri Draper, Huntington Beach Reiki, Santa Ana, California; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation, Disclosure Project), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| The chakras are energy centers of the body. |
This is a great time to meet others in the group and practice healing skills. For those who are new to Reiki, come enjoy a night of healing.
- Cost: usual donation is $5-20.
- Everyone is welcome.
- Disclosure Project: Learn and practice hands on healing: Reiki with Attunement, Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
- Nature Center: Learn and practice hands on healing: Reiki with Attunement, Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
- PasaDharma: Learn and practice hands on healing: Reiki with Attunement, Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
- Huntington Beach Reiki, Santa Ana
- A Modern Shaman podcast, Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 2:00 PM | Meetup
- Weekly Guided Mindfulness and Sound Bath Experience, Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Monday, September 4, 2023
Happy birthday, L.A. (242) and Beyonce (42)
SNL; Frank Black; Xochitl, A. Wells, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly
Happy birthday, Queen-for-a-day Beyonce. QB is playing Los Angeles' Sofi Stadium tonight, having added one more night to her run to celebrate her birthday with everyone dressed in chrome and silver, trying to wash the taste and memory of Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift out of our mouths and minds. Swift's Eras[e] Tour mostly did that, but we're sure we went because our credit card bills tell us so (and that yucky taste in our mouths). It sucks being hypnotized, robotically standing in line to buy merch only to resell it online at a hefty profit. Who cares about that Nazi princess? We've got the Queen B tonight!
This unceded Tongva (labelled Gabrieleno by the imperial rulers) Indian land used to be Mexico. That world was known as Alta California or "Upper California." Mexico held on to Baja (Lower) California, with beaches as beautiful as the Santa Monica Bay, where we dump our sewage as Aldous Huxley famously explained in "Hyperion to a Satyr," about the water treatment plant out by LAX Airport that doesn't work so well, especially when it rains.
Two-hundred and forty-two years ago, this was sort of Mexico but mostly Spain, due to an imperial invasion, conquest, and occupation.
The Tongva (Gabrielenos) had friends behind the Orange Curtain, where the Acjachemen (Juaneno or St. Johns) and Luiseno (St. Louis people) lived in rivalry but peace, just like LA and the OC exist today. The City of LA, with 3.something million inhabitants became a real incorporated city sometime in like the 1940s. And now it's the capital of the world (in our minds), due largely to the influence (hegemony) of Hollywood.
Now, centuries later, after El Pueblo moved from the San Gabriel Valley (next to the Saint Gabriel Mountains, which gave its name to the local, backwards inhabitants resisting enslavement and ethnic cleanings, almost-successfully led by one Joan of Arc figure named Toypurina, a Tongva warrior princess who was to lead a rebellion against the Spanish invaders and rapists.
PHOTO GALLERY AND COMMENTARY
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| In the brisk fall and windy winter, it gets nice as the skies clear to reveal snowcaps. |
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| This is a nice shot of our sweet city with a reservoir/lake/algae pond in the forefront. |
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| Want a nice beach? Go next door to the OC or up to Zuma and Malibu's coast on PCH. |
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| Y'all think Sasha gonna let Becky win out? (QB) |
We fell in love with Beyonce when we heard her duet with some fat guy named Jay-Z. She is so beautiful and her voice is gorgeous. Only problem was...
The problem was, it wasn't her. It was Alicia Keyes! So what does QB do?
It's not a great song (for men) but Sasha Fierce sure can dance.
(The Decline of Western Civilization) FEAR: "I Love Livin in the City"
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| There are Buddhists in LA (Ven. Piyananda) |
And when does it ever rain? When it pours. When we get a deluge, the banks of the LA River overflow. And it is that river that gave the city part of its name, El Rio Porciuncula. LA has a long name, roughly equivalent to Buddhist Bangkok's official full name, except with imperial Catholic overtones.
- LA's name: On Sept. 4th, 1781, a group of 44 settlers known as Los Pobladores ("the townspeople") founded this town or pueblo they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, which translates as "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels" [24], the lady being Catholicism's Virgin Mary. The original name of the settlement is disputed. The Guinness Book of World Records rendered it El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula [25], the last bit being the name of the river named after a place in Spain.
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| Full moon over my Lamby, L.A. |
All this unceded land belonging to indigenous nations, who stewarded it for 10,000+ years, was going to waste in Spain's mind. So the invaders went north into the hinterlands and established concentration camps all along the way, each a day's horse ride from the next, quaintly referring to them as California's "mission system."
Church and state, hand in hand, kidnapped women and children. Then Spain enslaved the men who came to save them. Hitler took note of this European success story and implemented it in and around Germany. The Fuhrer also took the idea and practice of eugenics from the European experiment in the Americas, particularly the U.S. of A.
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| Tongva kids (some blended) don't all look like you would think. We're still here in Tongaavar. |
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| L.A. under a full moon and smoggy sun |
So the concentration camp/"mission" she was busted and imprisoned at before forced relocation was the San Gabriel Mission in beautiful San Gabriel, California, in the middle of the San Gabriel Valley, in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountain Range of the expansive forest just behind LA, where the Tongva once freely roamed like grizzly bears alongside them, from the peaks to the sand on the coast, where they often met their friends, the Chumash or "Beautiful People" of Malibu and neighboring Ventura County.
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| Toypurina: Joan of Arc of CA |
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| LA Latinx walks around like Toypurina |
Unfortunately, someone ratted her out or a Spanish soldier who spoke the local language overheard her, so she was arrested, imprisoned, and forced to marry a white man and have his babies, in a practice known as "rape" in most places but called "re-education" in police states and oppressive fascists states like the future Los Angeles.
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| The million dollar homes of L.A. (Yeah, a million doesn't get you much in this market) |
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| White City, now burned down, overlooking LA, above Altadena on Echo Mountain |
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| Los Angeles has the best and biggest spiritual bazaar by LAX: Conscious Life Expo |
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| Some killers still eat meat in L.A. These cows escaped the slaughterhouse, running wild |
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| The pre-colonial Native diet was largely plant-based like this vegan cookbook shows. |
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| Most years we have Disclosure Fest in Downtown LA. This year it's in the Luxor, Las Vegas. |
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| L.A. can be so deceptively nice, like at the Lotus Festival pond in Echo Park near DTLA. |
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| Culture? Every year we have a massive Festival of Books at USC with the LA Times. |
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| It's a Mediterranean climate that looks like a desert, with super blooms after the rain |
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| We have science and UFO sightings over Hollywood (see the sign) at Griffith [Central] Park |
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| Either those are UFOs, like the Battle of Los Angeles, or just more police helicopters. |
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| It's mostly a movie town, so nothing much is real, like the unbelievable hiking trails |
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| The morning views and sunset hikes are a big draw for healthy hikers on the go |
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| There's lots of hardcore rap just as hardcore punk got its start on these mean sunny streets. |
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| Thanks to the work of Tongva tribe members and allies, we tossed Columbus for IPD! |
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| We have our own radical radio station (KPFK) that's always on the verge of going out of business |
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| We have so much life in LA, and we try to film most of it. Come to my movie premiere on... |
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| We have wild parties and wildlife, like now dead P-22, a 7-foot long maneater in Griffith Park |
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| What must the space aliens think when they fly into LA to the lights of Griffith Observatory? |
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| There's water here, mostly wasted down the concrete canal flood control channel |
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| We protest, even our own like racist Nury Martinez and her cohorts, for being anti-Black |
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| It's mainly a concrete jungle, with lots of traffic and industrial pollution and hot smog. |
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| But we love it, when we can see it, from Griffith Observatory looking toward The OC. |
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| Here's a map of old town, laid out as a grid to maximize real estate sales with mountains behind |
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| It's a great place, a smoggy basin with lots of earthquakes, tourists, smog, and traffic |
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| Like Manhattan we have a skyline so Woody Allen can make better bicoastal movies. |
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| It snows in sunny Los Angeles County, mostly on the mountaintops, hails elsewhere. |
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| JOKE: Q: Why is it so smoggy in LA? A: So God can't see what we're doing down here. |
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| It's a big sprawling megalopolis of 88 cities and many more neighborhoods with no center. |
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| That time Alexis from Claremont College and I OCCUPIED LA's first skyscraper. |
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| Oh, we have looters, too, and like to be a police state at the drop of a hat with paramilitary. |
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| L.A. actually stands for "Latin America" or so we like to think for all of our Latinos and cars |
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| Our favorite Mexican-American monk, North Hollywood |
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| The Valley has a tribe the Harakmogna, who have a cultural center next to tallest Mt. Wilson |
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| The concentration camp at Mission San Gabriel, home of Tongva heroine Toypurina |
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| There's Buddhism everywhere, like in the Valley (Northridge) with morning Zen meditation. |
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| When the next pandemic forces us to wear masks again, we're ready. |
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| That time Pussy Riot came to Los Angeles (2023) with Nadya getting all sexy and radical. |
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| The weather is easier to handle with very attractive meteorologists and news anchors |
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| The rain leads to mud that erodes the foothills then leads to grass then leads to wildfires. |
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| The last place you want to end up is Skid Row on drugs or buying made in Asia goods |
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| We have centiury-old designated cultural treasure neighborhoods that yet survive. |
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| The old houses, some of which housed rich Blacks, still stand, like on Mt. Washington |
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| This is a good depiction of Tongaavar, what LA was called before Los Angeles |
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| Most of the time the mountains over DTLA have no snow, just barren crumbling limestone |
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| We're vegans and quasi-vegetarians who care about animals and our human health (NoHo) |
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| Tens of thousands come out to try the vegan items for sale, mostly kind junk food |
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| We have secret waterfalls like this one at Eaton Wash in Pasadena with easy access. |
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| Shambhala LA still exists online and at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena |
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| See you all at the Beyonce Birthday show tonight at SoFi (the LA Forum). Wear silver. |
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