Daily Archive for June 1st, 2005

Welcome June Gloom and Bomb Scares

If the fire across the street yesterday wasn’t enough excitement, today we were greeted with a bomb scare just a few blocks north on Vine…

Bomb Squad Removes ‘Suspicious Object’ Near Hollywood Building

A Los Angeles police bomb squad was sent to remove a “suspicious object” found near a building in Hollywood Wednesday, and traffic was kept away from the area as a precaution, police said.

The object was discovered about 6:35 a.m. in the 1800 block of Vine Street, said Los Angeles Police Officer Kristi Sandoval of the Media Relations office.

The Vine Street offramp from the southbound Hollywood (101) Freeway was closed to keep vehicles from entering the area, Sandoval said. A section of Vine Street was blocked off while the investigation was conducted.

I ain’t no Hollaback Girl!

J-X and I were chatting last week and I was sayin’ that I ain’t no Hollaback Girl, but mostly because I didn’t know what the hell a Hollaback Girl was.

Thanks to Greg Stacy at the OC Weekly for writing This Shit Is Bananas, A probing analysis of Gwen Stefani’s ‘Hollaback Girl’.

[link via OC Metblogs]
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