Given that streetlights can be solar-powered in Los Angeles,
why aren't they ALL solar-powered?
What the heck kind of termite eats solid glass brick?
Beyond this railing is a quarter-acre of state-owned
"property." It is a slope of land that adjoins a massive
freeway. It is not a park. No one looks after it.
It is completely walled off and physically inaccessible.
It is basically an overgrown vacant lot, thick with
smoggy exhaust exhalations and ceaselessly
roaring with traffic. It exists without direct human intervention
and must be one of the wildest places in the city.
Someone, a daring teenager presumably, used some kind
of machine to pull the steel bars apart. A full-sized adult
could not fit through there... but someone must
have wriggled through and been noticed and
somehow reported. Later, somebody else came
by... some kind of authority? and hastily patched the hole
with woven-wire.
What kind of surreal Ballardian excess was going on
in this anomalous patch of earth, and why must it
be guarded so jealously?
