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“The imagination of America has never let go of California. It remains its ultimate frontier, its laboratory of dreams, its promised land.” –Kevin Starr, “Americans and the California Dream” (1973)
LA Banker
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LA Banker
@LA_Banker
LA, gardening leave: San Diego
Joined January 2012
- Replying to @CubanMsslCrisisEquivalent of looking up "culinary" and thinking it's a pretentious academic word for "of or relating to cooking" – as though common four-syllable words are all arcane things.
- Replying to @KFILE and @mattdpearceI thought they were going to make fun of the tweet. But they... they didn’t.
- Replying to @mayurzzzThe Getty Villa does have its own private water source and also engages in brush management along its perimeter. The Getty Center has an even more robust safety systems.
- Replying to @jaivinwyldeNo, you can't. Tell me how he got around the uber-strictly controlled procurement of Phenyl-2-propanone. Even alternative pre-cursors are highly controlled, let alone even obtaining the reducing reagant chemicals once the main process has occurred.
- Replying to @RobbieBarstoolBack when you couldn't immediately stream the next ep, this was torture.
- Replying to @mspringutMan, if only more universities whose endowments were seeded by gilded age tycoons could help revitalize our cities. (I'm not critical of what's being done here; I think it's great. It's just an isolated, impractical-at-scale example)
- Replying to @FordFischerIt’s nice they’re finally getting some exercise
- You only have to smoke up the house for a half day to season it, and the smoke dissipates once it settles into every fabric in your apartment.
- Selling a $1.7b family-owned business and Founder is wondering what Retained Earnings is.
- Replying to @ace_your_ecom and @billybrizzle420“But it’s just a an oil pan gasket!” “Yes, but we have to remove the entire engine to access the gasket.”
- Replying to @zach_yadegariDude this is not a good personal statement , but you have skills where it doesn’t matter and you’re going to kill everyone who knows how to write an essay
- Replying to @BrooklynBusRight right. Downtown Newark is a perfect substitute for Fifth Avenue shopping and dining-wise, I’ve heard Kearny has an Applebees! Why pay an extra $9 to see Hamilton when the Jersey City Chuck E Cheese does live shows every hour?
