Dec
12
Are All Barnes and Noble Bathrooms Rank?
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I live near The Grove, an upscale shopping center which houses a Barnes and Noble store. The bathrooms are always disgusting. The first thing that hits you is the stale oder of urine and the stalls are always a disgusting, sticky mess. I had the occasion today of stopping at the Barnes and Noble in Calabasas, a well-to-do suburban enclave of Los Angeles while I whittled away the time waiting for my appointment with my accountant. I stopped into the restrooms and was unfortunately greeted by the familar, rank smell of stale urine and dirty, black floors. What gives?
Dec
3
7 Year Dry Spell - Buh bye!
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Finally! Sweet victory is ours! After 7 straight years of losing, UCLA upset USC yesterday in college football. It was one of those games where we were so solidly considered the underdogs that anybody that was predicting that we were going to win was considered delusional.
Getting to the Rosebowl yesterday was an adventure. Normally, it’s a breeze. The traffic control is fantastic in Pasadena and you can usually enter the parking lots with relative ease. I knew it was going to be a sold out game when, 3 hours before the game started, they were announcing that the lots had been closed. In our 7 years of being season ticket holders, this was the first time that had happened.
Entering the stadium, you could feel the excitement and tension in the air.
When UCLA scored first after holding USC, you could start to feel the crowd thinking, “Hey! We can do this, we can win!”. With USC looking shaky the entire game and the UCLA defense shutting down Booty, the USC fans, for the first time, were absolutely speechless. Usually, it’s irritating to go to a crosstown rivalry game since the USC fans are so obnoxious. This time, they were very quiet almost from the start. You could see the absolute disbelief that USC was being stopped by UCLA.
Ah! Victory! While the USC team quickly exited the field, the UCLA team, band and fans stuck around for 20 minutes after the game to celebrate. What was strange was that the USC cheerleaders and band continued to play long after the game had ended.
Go Bruins!