Backstory: I’ve seen this car around town for several months, but today is the first time I’ve talked to the owner (who moved from Southern California in January of this year). The car was made over three years ago in tribute to N.D.’s then-four-year-old niece who was diagnosed with cancer. Her heroes were Superman and Batman. Originally used as a gimmick in fundraising and now available for parties and fundraisers, as the niece has recovered.
Short clip from the March 12, 1967 episode of the CBS show “The 21st Century”:
Finally, after a week or so of invisibility (sound effects only) due to smoky air, we can see a wedge of geese above our house.
This morning:
UPDATE: And brother Dennis reports a green 50 AQI at 10am from his L.A. (Venice) home this morning.
A little rain yesterday (see below) told us that this might be coming, finally …
Remembering the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, WYNC’s RadioLab podcast delivers this fascinating piece:
“This is the story of how Ginsburg, as a young lawyer at the ACLU, convinced an all-male Supreme Court to take discrimination against women seriously – using a case on discrimination against men.”
This photograph by the local newspaper’s chief photographer was taken of downtown WaWaWA yesterday when the Air Quality Index read 224, deep into the purple (“Very Unhealthy”) zone. Today it sits at 187, barely nudging its way into the red (“Unhealthy”) zone.
1 = approximate location of our residence
2 = top floor west-facing location of my studio workspace (about 1.5 miles from 1, where I, in pre-Covid/pre-wildfires times past, walked daily)