Water is our most precious resource out side of time itself. Given the fact we treat the ocean like a toilet and a pantry, you would think a forward thinking society that prides is self on "progressive thought" (as opposed to oppressive or regressive) would fall lock step behind water conservation and preservation.

I'm not going to complain about the taste of tap water here in LA because that would be like saying 'hey how's it going'? to someone in college and you hear the reply 'man, I'm so tired'. Well no duh you in college and your supposed to be tired. So complaining about water that has been filtered god knows how many times and has laid in a trash filled aquifer for eons in the hot desert sun just seems redundant.

What I will say is that Los Angelinos seem to have no problem wasting this resource. Not just in a normal oh a water main broke lets fix it kind of way but in far more flagrant displays. Case in point; you can drive down cash-laden Wilshire avenue in Beverly Hills any given morning and you'll see the janitors and groundskeepers spraying the sidewalk free of debris. Every where in LA I see people spraying off their driveways and sidewalks...with water. I'm drafting a letter to Mayor Villargairosa proposing a groundbreaking and environmentally sound plan to decrease water usage through out Los Angeles county.

Brooms

Brooms are an ancient device first used by the ancient Babylonians to sweep away the skulls from the human sacrifice chamber. Later on they were adopted my most cultures for greater effect (except of course the Egyptians who could never quite keep the sand out of their houses.) Fast forward several thousand years and brooms are holding fast in the janitorial trade. Parents use brooms to occupy children and ancient Greeks use brooms to beat women. Several hundred years later industrious pagans in northern England and southern France manipulate brooms for air travel. Sadly this technology has been lost to time. Brooms swept across the continents (pun) but finally meet their match when Herbert Hoover invents a device that "profoundly inhales the grime and filth from our most impoverished and disenfranchised citizens" in the late 1920's. He quits the presidency and opens up business for himself and employs half of the United States.

Brooms still hold on underneath street sweepers and in low income housing. Brooms will always be the most economical and efficient way of clearing some cobwebs from your eaves, scaring away raccoons from the trashcans and giving chimney sweeps something to dance with.

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There is no music of the week cause I've barely had the time to listen to any, let alone tell you about it. Show of the week is Dexter.

I'll do my best to get blogging again, this time with better material than brooms.