Random City Thoughts

The Department of Building & Safety has the second-worse hold music in Los Angeles. The music is Casio-keyboard Reggie. I’ve heard better ringtones. The city-crown for worst hold music, though, must go to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, which repeats, ad nauseam, “Fur Elise” in monotone chimes.

Earlier this week (10/3), I chatted with a man who pointed out, with a degree of awe, that Mayor Antonio was doing a television interview outside City Hall. Seeing as the mayor and I work in the same building, I got a far larger charge out of the fact that the man was part of a crew filming “The Nine.” When you work in politics, the entertainment biz seems very cool; I had no idea that the opposite was also true.

Bamboo will grow, nay thrive, in a windowless office, neglected by its owner. What kind of devil plant is bamboo, anyhow? And is it bad luck to have an even number of stalks, or odd?

If an unwritten rule falls in a forest, does it create a policy? Is there a memo involved?