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Entries tagged with 'Apocalypse'
Posted Apr. 15, 2008,
English Russia Presents The Apocalypse, Russian Style
By Ann Magnuson
English Russia has been one of my favorite websites ever since POPBITCH introduced me to it via their snark-a-thon newsletter. (They lured me in with the link to the exotic pet owners who kept a Siberian tiger in their tiny Soviet block apartment. I particularly liked when they fed the kitty live chickens in the living room and huge live catfish in the bathtub!) When you've had it up to your democratic jackass with the primary or feel a little wobbly about the increasingly wobbly state of our U.S. economy then check out what is happening in Mother Russia! You'll get a few laughs and just maybe a much-need shot of gratitude. I LOVE these conceptual images by Russian artists who envision The Motherland post-U.S. preemptive strike. Hey, looks like a Chuck Heston flick!
Posted May. 9, 2007,
L.A. Burns!
By Ann Magnuson
This latest fire in Griffith Park is blazing out of control! It's Tuesday night about 10 p.m. here in L.A. as I write this and it doesn't look good. The base camp that the fire department set up in the park is surrounded by fire! Who knows what is going to happen? I've never seen anything like this in my life! The photo above was taken by one Johnny Kobra, just one of the local Angelenos who have submitted their own photos to the L.A. Times website (which has astounding photos of their own -- see below.)
Kobra's pic was taken on Vermont Avenue, where I was earlier this evening dropping some mail off at the post office. The flames were 60-70 feet high and formed an apocalyptic backdrop to the palm trees and houses in the hills of Los Feliz. I couldn't stop staring and kept driving to get better views. Everyone was out on the street staring, pointing, taking pictures. The helicopters were whizzing back and forth from the Silver Lake reservoir where they were picking up water to drop on the flames creeping over the hillside at breakneck speed.