October 2011
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Things I can hear from my living room, in order of...
- Reveille, every morning at 8am, loud, from somewhere across Hyperion.
- Helicopters, landing at the hospital, or chasing criminals, or flying in some kind of military procession.
- Opera. Origin unknown.
- Machetes, “pruning” the bushes, weekly.
- Someone practicing the panpipes, Saturdays after 2am, from the very large house across the street that’s up on top of a hill.
-...
Aaaand, this continues.
from to ericspiegelman@gmail.com date Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM subject Re: Bishop Canyon
I see. This didn’t come from something about Manuel El Ruido Corcuera, perhaps?
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Eric Spiegelman <ericspiegelman@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, . I don’t really have a source. What I mean is, I’m my own source. It was just a story of...
Um.
from to ericspiegelman@gmail.com date Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM subject Bishop Canyon
Dear Eric,
I’m an anthropologist visiting at UCLA. I was wondering if you could tell me where you found the story you blogged yesterday. It came up in my Google alert for Bishop Canyon. I study ancient Native American cultures, specifically those in Southern California and Northern Mexico. There’s a story...
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"Johnny Mullet" →
WatchCopper sees something.
What I saw last night.
Alright, a little background. Copper kept acting like a bully at the dog park so I stopped taking him there. He still needed a large area to run around, off leash, so I’ve been taking him to various local parks, after dark, when there are no other dogs around. One of our favorites is the park with the Mulholland Fountain. But we go there a lot and last night I thought maybe let’s try Elysian Park,...
Hmmm.
Spotify ad #1: “Why let a computer pick what bands you should listen to? Isn’t it better when your friends make the recommendations? This is why Spotify is awesome.”*
Spotify ad #2: “If you get into a groove with a particular band you like, Spotify will automatically recommend new bands that sound similar.”*
They played right after each other.
*paraphrasing.
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Note to self. →
Just dropping this here so I can find it later. Carry on.
(See, this is exactly the behavior that will enable people to drop their cable subscriptions. Will explain later.)
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