Thursday, September 29, 2005

LA is like a fiery bicycle pump

As any schoolboy knows, if you put your finger over the valve of a bike pump and try to push the plunger, it gets hot. Similarly, if you bring air from high in the Nevada desert down to sea level in Los Angeles, the entire basin becomes hotter than a DVD player in a Liverpool pub carpark. It's called a Santa Ana wind and it has the effects of removing smog, torching the San Fernando Valley, and torching the Captain's brain. Whether or not these are welcome effects is a matter of some contention.

You can mimick life during a Santa Ana wind by cranking a radiator up to full in small room with all the doors and windows closed, and staying there for three days. If there's sunlight coming through the window, even better.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I see you still seem to be writing this mindless gibberish!! I suspect its more than just the increasing heat upsetting the balance of your biological functions. I cannot believe that LA is so bereft of interesting distractions to amuse and entertain you, that pouring your verbose and grandiloquent musings out to the blogg world is all you can fill your time with.

Bloody marvellous, keep it up !

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