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An LA Encounter with theT1000
August 12, 2008
Some say every conversation in LA ends with a celebrity. Here&;s mine. Took my son to see Batman today at the Sherman Oaks Galleria,. We were admiring the collection of movie posters when a figure off a movie poster strolled past.
&;Hey, are you Robert Patrick!&; I told my son, &;That&;s the guy who was the T1000 in Terminator II!&; (which might just be my favorite LA movie of all time.)
He was as friendly as could be; &;What&;s your name, son?&; he said to my boy.
In my head, I could hear echoes of the T1000 asking John Connor&;s foster parents a similar question&;before he sliced them to death.
The &;T-1000&;, played by Robert Patrick.
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LA Riots: Deja Vu All OverAgain?
May 2, 2007
A tip of the hat to both LAObserved and Alert the Bear, who mentioned our LA Riots Remembered post. As K.M. Johnson notes, there hasn&;t been much &;anniversary&; coverage of the Riots, but unfortunately, I&;m thinking that what&;s old is new again.
This unnerving Fox footage of the LAPD firing rubber bullets at the May Day immigration demonstrators in MacArthur Park brings up the spectre of Rodney King like the ghost of Christmas past. Local Fox 11 news reporter Christina Gonzalez who was roughed up along with her camerawoman, quoted the police as saying &;Doubletime it&;s tussle time.&;
Our house is in the flight path from Van Nuys Airport. The police &;ghetto birds&; immortalized by an earlier Ice Cube kept flying overhead last night. I couldn&;t sleep and flicked the channels, looking for news. Only infomercials, so I was left wondering if it was on again.
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