Looking south on towne from 6th street today It is now 9:26 am , I ...

Looking south on towne from 6th street today

It is now 9:26 am , I guess all of this goes into effect tomorrow. Apparently , the 5 am action was the ACLU and ALice Callahan out distributing these flyers to the folks on the street. The one on th e left tells the people what to do and what their rights are. I think they will be looking for new plaintiffs.


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Hopefully I will get photos of the LAPD in the morning rousting the homeless from the sidewalks.


It is 8 am I didn't , quite make it to take pictures at 5 am . So I will go out and check and see if the encampments are there now.




Its not 5 am yet , this photo was taken late last night at around 10:30 pm and it looks like the lapd was out enforcing the law in front of the PAnama Hotel across the Street from where I live.

Homos of Los Angeles Unite!

Thanks to Dunner's Stunners for pointing Guerrilla Gay Bar out to me. I've heard about this in other cities; gay folk organize and infiltrate a popular straight bar once a month. Here are a few answers from the FAQs, in case you're still curious.1. What is Guerrilla Gay Bar?

GGB is a combination of flashmob and the French Revolution. Only gayer. (Fewer decapitations.) Once a month, we will take over the coolest straight bar we can find in the greater Los Angeles area. We won't tell em we're coming - we'll just show up - hopefully by the hundreds - and make ourselves at home.

2. When is Guerrilla Gay Bar?

Beginning June 9, 2006, GGB will be the second Friday of every month.

3. Where is Guerrilla Gay Bar?

It's a secret. Two weeks prior to each event, we'll send you an email so you can save the date and invite your friends, and we may (or may not) offer a clue as to the location. The actual location will not be announced until one day prior to each event, when we'll give you the full lowdown by email and on our website.

4. For whom is Guerrilla Gay Bar intended?

You, as long as you come along. Part of the reason we created GGB is due to an oft-expressed frustration with the existing gay scene in Los Angeles. We wanted to create an alternative scene for folks who crave something different from what West Hollywood or the club circuit have to offer. Our ideal crowd is more diverse than your average bar - punks and twinks, bears and guppies, students and seniors - and, best of all, folks without a convenient label.There's an email list if you want to find out where folks are gathering on Friday, and you can also add them to Friendster and MySpace. Check the website if you want to find out more info.

Breaking NEWS----- Senate Passes Immigration Reform/Senado aprueba ...

The US Senate has passed the immigration overhaul bill.
AP - 39 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Legislation to secure U.S. borders and offer millions of illegal immigrants access to the American dream cleared the Senate on Thursday, a rare election-year reach across party lines and a triumph for President Bush. The 62-36 vote cleared the way for arduous summertime compromise talks with the House on its version that focuses on border enforcement � with no guarantee of success. "Why not say to those undocumented workers who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, come out from the shadows," said Arizona Republican John McCain, a key architect of the bill.
WOW!!!!!

So soon?
Wow!!!!

Now it will be up to the House to vote on it , work on it , and hopefully not destroy it.


Senado aprueba la reforma de inmigracion
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EFE).—El Senado de EU aprobó hoy la mayor reforma migratoria desde 1986, que podría abrir la puerta a la legalización de millones de inmigrantes indocumentados, pero prevé sanciones empresariales y el refuerzo de la vigilancia fronteriza



Wow! Tan pronto Asi! ojala la Casa no la destruye.
mas cuando Noti Los Angeles escribe en su blog

You're eidah iiiin, or you're owt!

Mmhmm. Gurls...it's BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!! Project Run With Scissors (and stab Jay McCarroll) just started season 3 this week. I smell some queeny drama coming up (pun intended) early in the season. I'm sorry, but everybody I know who watches this brilliance is gay. They NEED to call that shit Project RunGay. Austin Scarlett SHOULD have won season 1. But nooooooooo...that had to give it to that freak Jay. I was kinda suprised that Chloe won last season. I really wanted Andrae' (what happened to Andre'?) to win. Or Nick. Somewhere, in the archives, I have the gif file of Nick rolling his eyes. But one of the best moments in TV history EVER was Santino going the fuck OFF at pisssy Michael Kors. He was all, "blah blah, people don't even know who Michael Kors is...blah, blah, blah". I just about DIED. Kors pissy little balloon got busted. Thank gawd. And Nina Garcia...well, she's chilled out somewhat, but she still needs a big 'ole bitchslap right in the kisser. Knock that bitch off of her director's chair. Chirrenz, did ya'll see that "Project Jay" show (it was only one episode) where Heidi wanted him to design a dress for her for some big event that I don't remember? Mmhmm. They had to bring in some old no-label queen designer to help him!! I fell the fuck OUT when she dissed his damn dress. And guess who I just found out actually made the dress (very flattering, by the way) Heidi wore to said event? KERA SAUN!! Gurl, she made a better damn dress than Jay and he won that shit? You GO my sassy ebony sistah! And she has her own boutique in Los Angeles and Jay currently has NOTHING going on in New York City. I'm trying to restrain myself from falling out of my chair for laughing at him! Ooooooooh...and when Jay had the dress on the model, did anyone besides me notice who the hairdresser was? Mmhmm...it was JUSTIN (ka-weeeeeen) from Blowout, who mysteriously was not in season two of Blowout. HMMM. He must have made Jonathan cry or some shit. That bitch always cries!
But, I digress...this ain't about crying Jonathan or Justin, it's about Season 3 of Project Runway!! I hope that old crazy man gets booted out. He's really weird...like, weirder than me, and THAT'S weird!
Oh well, I'm just glad it's back on. I was having an ANTM and PR withdrawal! And WTF is up with Heidi's hair in that picture? Did her baby with Seal do her weave that day?!?! Oh, don't get me started, gurl!! Later, babies!!

© 2006 BMD

New blogger may be coming to Central City East blogger

I met a nice lady tonite at the kareoke at immanuel Church on 6th and San Pedro. This woman may be starting a blog of her own or may be writing here on this blog soon.

We shall see.

Good news. This woman lives in the Yankee HOtel which is on the corner of 7th and San Julian . She has some intersting things to say and write about.

New blogger may be coming to Central City East blogger

I met a nice lady tonite at the kareoke at immanuel Church on 6th and San Pedro. This woman may be starting a blog of her own or may be writing here on this blog soon.

We shall see.

Good news. This woman lives in the Yankee HOtel which is on the corner of 7th and San Julian . She has some intersting things to say and write about.

Stumbling around in the dark...

You mean to tell me that the building of three new sports stadiums, the new (better than the Riverwalk) Bayou Promenade, the plans to build "New York Penis Envy" park and the presence of the Danger Train haven't done anything to elevate the image of Houston??????

That can't be right?

For years, the thought of living in Houston was distinctly unappealing to native Texan Brit Davis.

"Houston, to me, was kind of the armpit of Texas," said Davis, 36, an information-technology professional who spent part of his childhood in Dallas and has visited Houston often for business

(snip)

As college graduates young enough to be open to new experiences in new places, they are part of a group that's being aggressively courted by employers in Houston and other major cities.

"These people are more mobile. They take more risks. They have less to lose," said Carol Coletta, the president of CEOs for Cities, a national coalition of urban leaders that commissioned a recent survey to gauge the attitudes and preferences of these coveted workers.

As Houston jockeys for position in this intensifying competition, the new survey suggests that it will have to do more than counter the negative perceptions of Davis and others. It will have to find a way to make a strong impression at all.

(snip)

Houston appears neither among the 20 cities young college-educated workers would most likely consider as a home, nor among the 20 where they'd least like to live. New York and Los Angeles, by contrast, appear high on both lists, indicating people have strong opinions about the nation's two largest cities.

"Houston is invisible," said Stephen Klineberg, the Rice University sociology professor who directs the annual Houston Area Survey of local attitudes and demographic traits. "People don't know about Houston. They don't think of Houston."

(snip)

Nationally, the survey's most striking finding was that 64 percent of college-educated people ages 25 to 34 said they would first decide where they wanted to live, then look for a job in that area. This is a reversal from previous generations that tended to seek the best job they could find and considered location secondary.

"Every economic development strategy over the last 30 years has been built on the idea that if we attract jobs, we attract people," Coletta said.

The survey reinforces an idea that Houston's business and political leaders have embraced in recent years: In a knowledge-based economy, the cities that thrive will be those that offer the lifestyle qualities that are important to young, well-educated workers.

(snip)

Research shows that young professionals seek clean, attractive, safe cities with ample green space that provide the amenities they want.

These preferences vary: Restaurants and nightclubs are important to some while others are more interested in bike trails or a lively music scene.

Houston has struggled for years to find effective strategies to market the city as an attractive place to live and work.

The effort hasn't been helped by critical national news media coverage, including an infamous New York Post headline about Houston — "This Place is a Hellhole" — during the 1994 NBA championship series.

(snip)

To encourage more young workers to give Houston a shot, the city's leaders are working on several fronts to raise and improve Houston's national profile, with an emphasis on qualities that appeal to young professionals.

This is particularly evident in green space initiatives such as a planned downtown urban park and the Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade that opened June 10 along Buffalo Bayou.

Such efforts are useful, but the city must do more to create the kind of urban environment that young workers want, said David Crossley, the president of the Gulf Coast Institute, a nonprofit research group that studies urban issues.

(snip)

While the CEOs for Cities survey doesn't specifically ask questions about urban design, other research shows that young professionals want lively urban places where they can walk and mingle with others, Crossley said.

"Really, what people are looking for is experience," Crossley said. "You're looking for some sort of persona for yourself. You can't do that in suburbs. You can only do it where there are lots of people closely packed. We don't really have those places in Houston."

One quality that Houston leaders often emphasize in pitching the city is its low housing prices.

This was an important consideration for Davis and Milios, who want to save money to buy a house.

Ahhhh..so it seems the answer is a BIGGER catapult. Maybe one that's big enough to tear down all of the refineries in Pasadena and surrounding cities, change the seasonal weather patterns to make Houston more condusive to outside activity in the summer, and the razing of several developed neighborhoods (just make sure you displace the right people) to make room for more green space and more development of the "right" types of business.


Oh, yeah...all of this is being done to lure people from OUT of the area. There's not much talk about taking care of the people that are ALREADY here. You know, the people facing a crime problem, police shortages, sub-standard basic city services....yeah, you and me.


Far better to spend Billions of public dollars to bring in new people who don't gripe as much.

Lakers to aim higher next season

By JOHN NADEL
AP SPORTS WRITER

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Phil & Kobe reunion worked out well, with no apparent glitches. And outside of an ugly finish, so did the Los Angeles Lakers' season.

As for the future, Lakers fans probably shouldn't expect much roster shuffling or a championship contender very soon. The hope is, a title shot isn't too far away.

"We were all about getting to the playoffs and make some noise in the playoffs. We met our goal," coach Phil Jackson said Monday during a break from conducting exit interviews with his players.

The Lakers went 45-37 for an 11-game improvement over the previous season, and took a 3-1 lead over the Phoenix Suns before losing the last three games to be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

"We're pleased. We maintained from day one that was achievable," general manager Mitch Kupchak said of a return to the postseason.

But Game 7 was ugly from start to finish - a 121-90 victory by the Suns.



"They're holding themselves responsible," Jackson said of his players. "I have to make them let go of that. The first four games were pretty good."

And the last three weren't.

"We think our future is very bright," Kupchak said. "The good news, really, is this team is together. You cannot predict a major change.

"This is not a stellar year where you're going to see eight to 10 stellar free agents available. We're in the exact same boat as 25 or 26 other teams are in. We have a big window two years from now."

That that might be when something big happens in free agency that makes the Lakers viable championship contenders.

"I wouldn't discount it a year or two down the road. I'm not prepared to say that, although I think that's a possibility," Kupchak said of returning to elite status.

Added Jackson: "Usually you have to go two or three rounds of the playoffs before you can compete for a championship. "We have some core ingredients that are pretty good."

The Lakers have three legitimate big men in Chris Mihm, Kwame Brown and Andrew Bynum. Bryant is a superstar and Lamar Odom is an All-Star caliber player.

The biggest question mark is in the backcourt. Bryant's 35.4-point average was the NBA's best in 19 years, but the youth and inexperience of starter Smush Parker and top reserve Sasha Vujacic hurt the Lakers against the Suns.

"The question is, are we good enough at that position? Are we experienced enough? Both of them made strides this season," Jackson said. "We don't believe we have to have a superstar come in for us to advance (in the playoffs). We know we have enough physical talent, we have enough size, we have enough expertise to compete."

Kupchak said he didn't anticipate a major trade this offseason, but did acknowledge a possible need for an upgrade in the backcourt.

The Lakers, well over the salary cap, have only three unrestricted free agents on their roster - veterans Devean George and Jimmy Jackson and rookie Devin Green. George was a key reserve on this team.

"He's probably the one challenge we have during the offseason," Kupchak said. "Basically, the core of this team is intact."

George said he was going to explore free agency.

"I just let them know that I enjoyed being here and I'm open to coming back," he said.

Jackson, who coached the Lakers to three championships in five years, returned this season after a year off. He wrote a book slamming Bryant while he was gone, so there was intrigue upon his return. When training camp started, all eyes were in the record-setting coach and his star player. But no problems surfaced.

"We worked together really well this season," Jackson said. "It was remarkable, from Hawaii on. I think at first, it was like, `How's this going to work?' He really took to the offense, where he was going to play in it. It was a remarkable year for him."

Jackson said Bryant did an especially good job with leadership.

"Kobe was a lot more personable for us this year, was great as a leader," teammate Brian Cook said. "A lot of people did a lot of growing up. Everybody got along from the standpoint of off the court - just a great group of guys."

Bryant said he believes the Lakers grew up.

"When you go through a season like we went through and a playoff series like we went through, those are big steps in our development process," he said. "When we come back next season, you'll see a team that executes better, understands better, is better in pressure situations, is just mature."