All sorts of stuff

Happy birthday Canoodles!

Prestige v. Illusionist – Prestige wins!
OK, so it wasn’t a landslide, but out of the people that saw The Prestige, they either liked it, or liked it more than The Illusionist. If you haven’t seen them, I really suggest watching The Prestige. I can’t vouch for the other one. 😉

I am completely disgusted with the article that

canutius

posted about Paris Hilton. “Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is backing an online petition seeking a pardon of her 45-day prison sentence because she enlivens “mundane” lives.” :O It just has no end, does it? I can’t believe that there are people that are so disgustingly superficial and needy that they need to worship and create someone like her.

There is a fire, not sure how much you got to see on your news last night about it. Here, it was the only thing on the news last night. But anyway, yeah, huge brush fire in Griffith Park, and for a while there, it was really scary. Griffith Park is apparently the largest urban park in the nation and a ton of it has burned to the ground. Record heat. Single digit humidity. Just add “high winds” and that will be what we coming to us for most of the year now. Thankfully, winds weren’t up an crazy last night or today, so the amazing fire fighters are doing a great job of getting it contained. They evacuated the LA Zoo yesterday, moved animals indoors, evacuated the Gene Autry Museum, and the residents in the area. And then there’s the Observatory. So close, I was really fearing the worst there. I am so glad it hasn’t gone down.

Griffith Park Fire Originally uploaded by xengineer.	Dante’s View completely burned. Originally uploaded by Malingering.
Griffith Park Fire Originally uploaded by xengineer.	Griffith Park Fire Originally uploaded by Donna Grayson.
8:52pm Originally uploaded by Atwater Village Newbie.	Griffith Park Observatory – MUST SEE Originally uploaded by Eric Castro.

Sorry, but I really wanted to keep that in my lj. The fire season is getting longer, this is probably just the first in a long series of fires for the year.

17 Responses to "All sorts of stuff"

bird_mom says:

May 9, 2007 at 6:39 pm

You know what’s scary was that I could see the orange glow from the fire when I left work last night – the smoke was obvious, but from higher points (overpasses and hills) you could see it from O.C.

What is annoying is that there are three other fires, one in Yorba Linda, not far from where we live and pretty close to where John has been working and there was *nothing* on the news last night but Griffith Park (suspiciously close to the television studios?). Oh well – the cultural institutions are important, and we were sort of wondering how they were going to deal with the animals at the zoo, but there is more to SoCal that Los Angeles, news directors *sighs*
1. anitza says:
  
  May 9, 2007 at 9:51 pm
  
  That is crazy dude! Seeing it in OC? :O
  
  And you know, that sucks! I had no idea there were other fires. I have a feeling though, that if they had expanded coverage to the other ones they would have left me feeling like all of SoCal was burning in hell.
majorxero says:

May 9, 2007 at 7:13 pm

It’s sad, really. Griffith Park is beautiful and to see it burn really sucks.

I’m worried about Vince. He and his step-dad live in Los Feliz.
1. anitza says:
  
  May 9, 2007 at 9:51 pm
  
  It really is very sad. And dude, I had no idea about Vince. I’ll ask Juan if he heard anything. So far, people are ok though.
skylanth says:

May 9, 2007 at 7:41 pm

Wow, those are some amazing pictures, there. Scary!

The news about Hilton is also scary. We don’t need another example to show that rich people get cut slack when they break the law. I personally think jailtime might be good for her.
1. anitza says:
  
  May 9, 2007 at 9:53 pm
  
  Didn’t you know that Hilton is being unfairly targeted? She is a VICTIM in all of this!
  1. bird_mom says:
    
    May 9, 2007 at 11:25 pm
    
    Heh – yeah a victim of her own bad judgement and her mother’s poor-ass parenting skills…
sprootles says:

May 9, 2007 at 8:38 pm

Whilst the photos are beautiful, I must say that it looks scarey as hell.

Besides being eaten alive by a shark (I live in a land-locked state, so this is stoooooopid) and drowning, I fear burning alive more than any other way to die.

*ahem*

Anyway, I hope everyone you know is safe.
1. anitza says:
  
  May 9, 2007 at 9:55 pm
  
  Oh that avatar looks so yummy right now.
  
  One of the places that got burned down was Dante’s View. Oh the irony.
  
  And just thinking of dying in a fire, yeah, that is my ultimate fear. Everyone I know is ok. I think people-wise, we are ok. Just going to suffer with terrible air quality for a while. So what else is new?
  1. sprootles says:
    
    May 10, 2007 at 2:20 pm
    
    Well that sucks about the air quality, too, what with asthma and allergies being far worse this year.
    
    I’m hoping my avatar will send good vibes of rain your way.
    
    Would you believe that where my parents are they are flooded right now? It’s the highest it’s been since 92 when all that horrid flooding occurred. The river over there is now 16 feet above flood level and hasn’t even crested yet.
    
    As for here, well, we’re not as dry as we were two weeks ago, which is a blessing. We had some flash flood warnings, but everything is still nice and green. I believe by the begining of June last year everything was dead and brown, like it was August or something.
    
    *hugs*
    
    And I love your avatar…so much I stole it a while back. It makes me giggle every time!
dimena says:

May 9, 2007 at 10:40 pm

OMG! Scary! Take care of you, hun!
1. anitza says:
  
  May 10, 2007 at 3:12 am
  
  Don’t worry! I am not that close!
  1. dimena says:
    
    May 10, 2007 at 5:17 am
    
    Good!))
dead_sexydexy says:

May 10, 2007 at 2:50 am

A) The fire pics are terrible/beautiful. I remember being in Yellowstone in the late 80’s and my dad getting pictures of that fire. Same terrible/beautiful thing. The destruction left after is anything but beautiful. I hope people continue to remain safe. Of course, the air quality plummeting can’t be good for anyone.

B) Paris *gag* Hilton. Oh good lord, I’d rather be buried in my mundane life than have to see/hear about her again. Ever.
1. anitza says:
  
  May 10, 2007 at 3:13 am
  
  I know what you mean about the fires being terrible and beautiful. I look at them with awe but at the same time, gee, it’s fire!
  
  And I agree 100% with your Paris assessment.
aoife_ife says:

May 10, 2007 at 2:51 am

Wow, I had no idea any fire had even happened (my life being little more at the moment than reading and Six Feet Under). It’s beautiful! And scary! So glad that it wasn’t more serious, though, and that the observatory and everyone in the vicinity is safe.

*goes back to retching over Hilton*
1. anitza says:
  
  May 10, 2007 at 3:14 am
  
  Well, for us, it is the only thing on the news, but I doubt it is like that elsewhere. I was so scared the observatory would go down. They just reopened it after a remodeling that took a few years. I love going up there but haven’t in a few years.

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