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Pics + crazy pigeon lady September 23, 2003
For your compulsive clicking needs, we now have some photos of the new house with all our stuff unpacked and neatly stacked about the place.
Also, I drove to downtown Los Angeles yesterday, as I ocassionally do for work. I forgot to pick up a parking pass for the Gas Tower building, so I had to park down the street at a pay lot. On my way back from the car, I encountered Crazy Pigeon Lady. This whithered old crone was throwing down fistfulls of feed to a fluttering flock of pigeons, yet screaming at them at the top of her lungs. In Spanish.
The birds didn't seem to mind, even though she would ocassionally bend down, sieze one of them in mid-peck, and then stuff it in a canvas bag hanging from a nearby fence. She even held one of them in her other hand and would gesture wildly with it to add some mysterious punctuation to her mad tyrade.
Passing her, I was seized by this fear that if I made eye contact she'd turn her wrath on me and start flinging overfed pigeons at me, going back to her bag of feathered amunition until I ran out into traffic in a deadly attempt at escape. My epitaph would read "Harold James Madigan, Ph.D. Killed by pigeon-wielding madwoman".
Nothing of the sort happened, though, and I crossed the street into the Gas Tower building. All was well and the line at Starbucks was short. I bought a $3 cup of coffee and counted my blessings, so you can make of this what you will.
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