White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

This really doesn’t affect me, but there are a couple scenarios where it could indirectly. A new post appeared this afternoon on the building’s mailing list- here is the post:
“Has anyone been able to get refinancing for their mortgage!? Or have sellers been able to sell to buyers who didnt buy all cash?
I have [...]

I guess people can make a difference at City Hall, but but the cynical side of me believes something else happened- like a little light went on in the head of someone at Public Works with the thought of “why are we paying double time when this can be done in the daytime?”- or another [...]

So Tonya Durrell, representing the Public Works Office on Project Main St. Jackhammer, did respond to a request from a Higgins resident to explain why the work was necessary during the 9pm - 5am timeframe (see previous post). BUT she neglected to answer the core question and instead did a good job of filibustering [...]

The Month of the Jackhammer continues on Main St. next to the Higgins building, from 9pm until 5am daily. Even though I am not directly over the construction, it echos off the nearby new LAPD and rattles my windows- last night from 2am - 4am it was obnoxiously loud. I figured we just [...]

Since January 17th I have been without heat (well, and a/c too since they are both produced by same unit). The building has an integrated heating/cooling system, but each unit has a circuit board thermostat, and coils, filters etc. The word was that when management did an emergency generator test on January 17th, [...]

A couple of ominious posts to the Higgins mailing list last week got my terror level to yellow:
I might have missed if anyone posted any notes on the scheduled construction on Main Street the entire month of Apr.. From 8pm till 5am!!. If anyone have any information pls. do share.
Response from the HOA President:
Management and [...]

This building is a real piece of work- at any given time SOMETHING MAJOR is not working. It seems that the developer of this project cut a lot of corners on converting it to residential units. I dare not say his name as he has a tendancy to sue bloggers who slam his [...]

Our Higgins resident poet and Fox 11 News Editor/Blogger sent this to our mail list tonite- I always enjoy her posts and I think it is deep on a few levels…
Two Is Better Than One
Two hands are better than one
Two legs are better than one
You and I
The two of us
We are better than the [...]

Yesterday, Sunday the 2nd, was a great day. It rained rather gently in the morning, and made my morning White Dog walk very enjoyable. I was trying to decide what to do at mid-morning: hit the gym, take Isis to Lofty Dog Indoor Dog Park, or eat breakfast and sleep some more. [...]

Just a few tidbits from last night- I swear it was one of the best nights of Halloween, which in turn are some of the best nights of my life. I went to college at CU (University of Colorado, Boulder) where on Halloween the thing to do was to take large amounts of “magic [...]