tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44936144846386767192011-11-03T08:28:57.602-07:00Peak oil is here. The defecation is hitting the rotary oscillator. A World Without Oil is drawing near. What are we all going to do?Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493614484638676719.post-40876024653528173742007-05-31T20:30:00.000-07:002007-05-31T21:58:51.000-07:00

(May 31, 2007)Basically all these blog entries are part of a huge online roleplaying game called "World Without Oil." It helped that in real life during the month of game time we were dealing with gasoline prices that are, in real-money, adjusted-for-inflation terms, the most people have ever paid in the United States for gas. There were places in LA County where people paid $4/gallon if they

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(Nov. 30, 2007)The court-martial of Lt. Jeremy Logan, the Watts Bomber, ended today. He will be spending the rest of his life at hard labor in Leavenworth. Which at this point probably means working on a farm run for benefit of the FEMA system. However, and this is the reason he was spared a firing squad: (they still do that) damning evidence was presented which specifically points fingers at

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(November 21, 2007)OK, I have finally settled down enough to write.The actual trip from Panorama City to Duarte was a month ago. It's taken me this long to get over it. Basically Pacoima does not exist anymore. No, nobody dropped a bomb on it...it just got burnt down. There are conflicting stories about how the firestorms happened. Most locals believe it was retaliation for an ambush killing of

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(Oct. 12, 2007)Just a quick note to let you all know that we are back in Duarte, this time for good.The journey to Duarte from Panorama City was interesting as in "may you live in interesting times."Let me decompress for a little bit longer and I will give you all the story. I just wanted to resurface before people start wondering if there was something going on. We are living out of boxes in a

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(October 9, 2007)Finally, I get confirmation of something I've been observing. Someone in San Diego is also observing that Mexican emigres are repatriating themselves. I'm not saying this is an entirely voluntary exodus: I'm sure that there's been sweeps, possibly directed by Homeland Security/FEMA.However, I think that it has a lot to do with a desire to reconnect to family. Family means a great

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(October 8th, 2007)...and I don't mean freaking Applebee's either.Our local indie grocery stores, El Super and Island Pacific, are bringing in some pretty decent produce for reasonable prices. Even Food 4 Less, owned by the Kroger's juggernaut, is in fairly good shape now.California is lucky in that back in the day we were the breadbasket for the entire US. Now we are the breadbasket for

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(Sept. 21, 2007)I'm a member of Ning.Com, and I just put up a site for folks to add their WWO Photos and video.So much nicer than a lot of the other photo or video sites. Check it out.http://wwophotos.ning.com/.

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(Sept. 21, 2007)Panorama City seems to be coalescing into a livable place. There is a lot of mutual aid, although it tends to flow to language groups. Spanish-speakers help other Spanish-speakers, Tagalog-speakers help other Tagalog-speakers, although the Pinoy community is mostly bilingual and not adverse to helping Anglophones. There is a Thai community that is centered around the Buddhist

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(September 17, 2007)We're going back to "Paranoia City" for a while to go through our stuff and figure out what goes with us and what stays. We will be camping out in our own apartment. We have survival rations thanks to my cousin. I don't know where he got the MREs but I'm not going to question our luck. MREs and granola bars, plus juice boxes. Hopefully we will augment our meals with local

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(Sept. 11, 2007)...or something lower to the ground.It's been a week since Washington Mutual went T. U., as The Register is wont to say. I received the first offer from what remains of WaMu and from the FDIC. It's laughable if it weren't so damn sad. I think I had something like a grand in there, and they want to give us $200. No WAY am I settling for that. Jerks. I guess they want a fight, then.

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(Sept. 7, 2007)Weird thing, a patient from Texas decided he was homesick for fishing. He got all rigged up Huck Finn style, dug out a worm from the ground, and went over to the Japanese Garden. He caught himself a fish. Big muddy brown Koi. At least he didn't catch any of the really gorgeous ones in the pond...caught one that came from the generation that was born there. Regression to the mean

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(Sept. 6, 2007)The WWO site calls me a "hero." Fsck that, I'm no hero. You want some heroes? Meet the LCSWs who work at City of Hope.I am now a volunteer aide to one of them, a sweet lady from South Africa named Sizwe. Sizwe comes by her heroism genetically: her parents were ANC activists, and the healthy children of the family all have gone either into organizing or helping professions in South

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(Sept. 4, 2007)My bank has bitten the big one. Washington Mutual is dead as a Dodo.I read something out of Seattle, where riots are currently going on and WaMu branches are being trashed, so Richie and I hauled buns to the nearest WaMu branch. It's Tuesday, right? They should be open, right????GAH!!! NO FREAKING WAY!!! Branch is shut tight. The ATM is dark. There is a sign on the door saying "

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(Sept. 1, 2007)Let's sum up the new, ugly picture out of Southwestern Los Angeles, which seems to be the most afflicted part of Los Angeles County.1.) The body count from the Watts Bombing is dramatically understated in what remains of the media. We are looking at the worst case of terrorism on US soil, period.2.) The Alameda Corridor is being furiously worked on to to fix. Not only is China

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(August 30, 2007, second post)This is what I got in my email box. I will not reveal the email address but it came from the Cingular domain. This is intense stuff.Hey. Especialisto X here.1st & last comm 2 u. Risky 2 do more. Army. Pvt. UCMJ susp. in Watts restrict. zone. Summ. exec. 4 media leaks.Cas figs way off. 5K-7K dead, 10K to 15K wounded. Pulped bodies in craters. We may never know how

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(August 30, 2007)We are having some of the worst heat of the year, and there have been some nasty brush fires nearby. Certain areas of the foothills are in a "let burn condition" so the fires aren't even fought. Non-populated areas of the Angelus National Forest are burning without being checked.The combo of the heat and the smoke and one of our patented inversion layers have created a smog siege

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(also August 28, 2007)I just remembered something I wanted to post, but didn't want to just blindly tag to the back of my last post. It was jogged to mind when I was sitting here reading people's email posts, and also happycube's most recent post about some of his friends in Isla Vista.Los Angeles is the media capital of the Known World. Life is so mediated here it's not funny. That living by

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(August 28, 2007) Whoever is ultimately at fault in the bombing of Watts, the most damage done by the event is the disruption of the Alameda Corridor.Wikipedia link: Alameda CorridorAlameda Corridor Transportation AuthorityFHWA Success Story: Alameda CorridorThere had recently been talk of converting the currently diesel locomotives along the rail corridor to electric. Hopefully when the Corridor

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(August 27, 2007)Conveniently, Lt. Jeremy Logan, USN Naval Aviator, has been arrested and thrown into the brig for the release of the two bombs over Watts. There have been hints from official channels that there are other suspects, both junior officers and enlisted Naval personnel, who are being questioned in connection with a possible White Supremacist cell at Miramar Naval Air Station. However,

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(August 26, 2007)This is my poor attempt at a graphic showing roughly where the bombs hit. They both hit in the same place, man...this is NO ACCIDENT.The news is trickling out of the area. The 110 and the 105 freeways have been damaged, if not destroyed in the area, and so has the Alameda Freight Corridor. Heckuva job, guys. Heck of a freaking job. The Alameda Freight Corridor is crucial for

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(August 26, 2007)Wow.Thank you, thank you, thank you, all the folks who have been sending messages of support. It does matter, to all of us.The fence seems to have made a difference...people are relaxing more. There were tent, trailer and cottage inspections, and the staff has succeeded in disarming the patients and caregivers, except for those with Law Enforcement backgrounds. Those folks who

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(August 19, 2007)OK, what happened between July 16th to August 6th?I'll run it by as bullet points, because things are moving so quickly now I can't just cut and paste anymore. July 20, morning: KTLA Channel 5 did a remote for its Morning News here. They got to hang around with and talk with doctors, nurses, and even a few patients. July 22: visit to Target. We were able to get a real air bed, (

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(August 6th 2007)I promise I will get back to my back journal entries but this is really screwed up, man. A breast cancer patient's ex-husband found out about what is going on here at the City of Hope thanks to me and to KTLA TV 5. One of the back journal entries was about the time the Morning News came here to broadcast. The SOB saw the broadcast back home in Barstow thanks to his satellite dish

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(August 6, 2007)The world is going to hell in a handbasket, but thank Goddess the email still works.Some clarifications requested by my audience: These are being copied to my blog from a file on my MacBook, hence the lumpy nature of the posts. And hence the fact that we haven't gotten to present day, present time (cue ominous laughter) yet. No, there are no organized "refugee camps" in SoCal that

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(July 16, 2007)We had a very strange event happen at CoH last night. Actual KKK guys in hoods, driving up in their pickup trucks. Apparently they mistook our encampment for one of the immigrant camps that have popped up in the suburbs and in rural California. They showed up here and were disappointed to find out that we weren't all Mexican or Centro-Americano. It was like a scene out of Blazing

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(July 9, 2007)I just got email from Woodbury University...interesting.All Woodbury students of Senior status will have their transcripts re-evaluated to determine which students will have their degrees conferred under emergency circumstances and which will not. The cut-off point as far as units completed has not -- and I repeat, NOT -- been determined. Please do not bother Admissions because they

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(July 5, 2007)The local American Legion post held a fireworks display for everyone who's stuck in Duarte getting treatment at City of Hope. They set everything up in Irwindale and the guys who did the display basically figured out that if you target everything to blow up high above the intersection of the 605 and the 210, that the folks here would see it if they got to a place where you could see

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(June 28, 2007)I can't bloody believe it.Mrs. Valenzuela, the lady who manages the landlord's properties, told me that we shouldn't move out, that she'd work something out with us.Apparently there are five families that have just picked up and left the building this month. And other buildings the landlord owns have been worse for attrition. Lots of people moving in with family, whether that

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(June 12th, 2007)OMFG it's so hot...105 degrees at 1pm today. We had a rolling blackout that kept us without power for 4 hours today. There was a hate crime at the Food 4 Less today. I wasn't there but it was all over KCAL's news. Some big fat loudmouthed white guy walked into Food 4 Less with a baseball bat, screaming about "Wetbacks!" and then he proceeded to bash out the brains of a Latina

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(May 30, 2007)I just got done with the big geek event...Celebration IV. A huge convention of Star Wars fans in Downtown LA, at the Convention Center. A lot of people couldn't make it because of the emergency surcharges on plane travel. Tom Reed called me via cell phone and told me not to expect him for San Diego Comic-Con. I'll probably not go either, considering the emergency.We are going to

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(May 13, 2007)Here in Panorama City, CA it's pretty bad.The price of gas here is inching dangerously close to $4.50 My friend happycube says it's worse up his way in Goleta, and it's hit $4.50 already.There is talk at Woodbury University of ending Weekend College starting Fall 2007. I'm glad I'm almost finished there, and that I didn't have a "must take" class which was scheduled for Weekend

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