‘Sup. I’m on plane in Panamá City to San Juan, PR after a 10-day vacay in Bogotá. It. Was. Awesome. Did I have coca tea? Sí. Was it good? ¡Oh sí! And necessary; Bogotá’s altitude is a motherfucker for olding basterds like 🎶Meeee🎶.
Check out the water traffic from BOG to PAN
Anyway, turn your devices to airplane mode etc. Etc. See ya on island soil.
Hot: Insurance companies that bailed on the CA Market in 2024.
Not: Raking the Los Angeles City Floor (the only reasonable prevention method for the future).
Except for the beloved and cherished DFO brethren, would it be a bad thing if Los Angeles burns to the ground?
Yes, there are good-looking people here. And many of the sports teams have trophies.
Just Chavez Ravine can burn, got it.
/Yes still bitter
“I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona” is still the best.
Greatest city in the world. L.A. County has more people than 42 of the 50 U.S. States, and probably more money than all of them combined.
No where else can you go surfing in the morning, snow ski in the afternoon, and then burn to death that evening, possibly during a combination earthquake/race riot.
Los Angeles IS the United States; the rest of you are just along for the ride.
Dubai?
NHL postponed the Kings game tonight; NFL “monitoring” Rams game (Monday night).
Winds should die down tonight, plenty of time to get the fires 3-5% under control before Monday. Can always move the game to the Chargers stadium.
I didn’t think of that into now but the Chargers practice facility is, oh I don’t know, about 100 fucking yards from where I work.
Someone said AQI was over 250.
That’s bad.
Yeah, the air is gonna be shit for a while. Some killer sunsets on the way though!
I generally try not to take delight in the misfortune of others, but…
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/james-woods-breaks-down-in-tears-cnn-la-fire-1236270062/
Best part, he didn’t bother insuring that house.
My heart bleeds for him…
They actually had to lure him out to evacuate. Here was the method:
https://youtu.be/__i8-aw20C4?si=aZPDnUppQ4Ytb7yP
Fuck him.
Okay, shit just got real.
The Critic’s Choice Awards ceremony has been postponed. It was going to be held in a glamorous airplane hangar in Santa Monica.
That’s Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport, used when your event can’t afford a real theater and you need concrete floors for easy clean up. I took flying lessons at SMO some years ago and we returned from a lesson and there was a rap music awards ceremony setting up at Barker; the flight school was in the same cluster of structures. By landing on the runway we came in behind their crack security team’s perimeter, and they went apeshit wondering how we got past them, despite the instructor and I both carrying flight cases and headsets. It was no use explaining that it was an active airfield so we claimed it was white privilege and they just nodded their heads and let us proceed. Most of this story is true.
we came in behind their crack
Even with how this season ended for my Bengals, somehow it could be worse.
That is almost a Dan Snyder level of “fuck you, sucker”.
That’s nothing; they sent Don T a roll of paper towels!
I want the Raiders to trade for that #1 pick in TEN’s possession. I have no idea what assets the Raiders hold but I want the No. 1 overall pick and fan, Don_T, coming to Vegas in the package.
Neither Don_T nor the eventual draft pick will ever see the field.
Raiders get:
TEN’s #1 overall pick
Don_T
Titans get:
LV’s #6 overall pick
Brock Bowers
A commentist to be named later (rurmoured to be ArmedAndHammered)
If any of you LA types need to get out, I have an extra bedroom. Balls has my email. Stay safe everybody, this is scary shit!
Dunno, probably couldn’t get much sleep with this constantly blaring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavSfl1jATU&pp=ygUPY3VsdCBmaXJlIHdvbWFu
You getting the wind out there or are you too far south?
It’s windy, but nothing is burning
lol people moving to Tucson
“Out of the fire and into the frying pan”
You are awesome! Thank you for offering. Hopefully, we’ll be okay and won’t need it. Things are not as bad as last night.
Our roof was damaged (time for a new one anyway), but the fires are nowhere near us.
Nothing much else to say; this sucks and is wholly predictable and will happen more frequently in the future. Stay hydrated.
I just heard a rant about LA’s mayor being in Ghana? Is she looking to move into a neighborhood that is not a dystopian nightmare?
Yes that’s Accra-it.
Jesus god I’m in the mouth of Hell.
This is where I work. I just got here. Holy shit.
This is the sun?
There were KN95s on everyone’s desk when we got here.
We about to find out how essential guys who ain’t gonna be around in three years are.
I’m feeling decidedly unsafe.
Let me check in with Social Security real quick.
I’m sorry, LA, The Econony can’t lose another productive day this early in the year.
Well, at least fire isn’t a danger to you Hawaiians.
I’m playing the role of mainland haole for now.
….
For now.
Blax, anytime and any place:
This is a situation where you all need to be constantly thinking about multiple routes escape plans.
Are there any apps up and running showing hot spots, winds, at risk areas, safe routes, etc? If not someone smart in emergency services should build one.
EHS has been monitoring but they’re on the main campus and we’re in a peripheral building
On an island you could say. This is a trip. That wind is fierce
Just wanted to let everyone know we are okay. A bit of a scare with some palm trees catching fire about 400 yards from my house, but we are good.
Hopefully the winds die down enough that they can start containing these fires.
Jesuschrist thanks for checking in. Glad you and the family are OK.
Can you go make a video of you planking in front of the palm trees?
That’s way too close!
My previous girlfriend used to live in Altadena and that fire looks like it’s right in her old neighborhood.
We’re smoked out in the sky, the air quality can best be described as Gates of Hell quality. Your eyes burn the second you step outside and there’s a layer of ash covering EVERYthing.
But you know me, I can’t complain.
“Your eyes burn the second you step outside and there’s a layer of ash covering EVERYthing.”
So you’re in the Bears front office?
So this was home. No, those are not rain clouds. That’s smoke.
Was she a goddamn pyro?
We’re fine here in Connecticut too, even though it’s very cold and the wind chill brings it down to single digits, (and that’s Fahrenheit, buddy), and no one around here seems to know how to put on a winter jacket and a hat.
Not much in the way of fire here, although I may set a few to warm up.
I do want Zymm to know that I am working from home (for now; I actually have to drive to Court in a bit), comfortably ensconced in a fleece robe from EMS.
If it is the courthouse where my daughter works, say Hi for me!
Great news Buddy. Here… Take one of these…
2Pack, I’m not sure how they fight fire in Italy…
Apparently, by smothering it with their ginormous titays.
Wowza!
Most eastern Washington girls don’t look like this.