Here in Los Angeles, it is hot. It’s been in the mid-nineties all week. Let me clarify that these are not unlivable temperatures out here in our glorious, desiccated seaside utopia. We are not being boiled alive in this desert basin, unlike you inhabitants of swampier locales back East. Why, I was just on Ye Olde Easte Coaste a few weeks ago, and I hate…
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