BREAKING: Government shutdown in NJ due to bitter political stalemate in Christie's final yr. State parks CLOSED for start of July 4th wknd.
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) July 1, 2017
This is one of the biggest weekends of the year for shore town economies and the governor is holding them hostage to hold a pissing contest pic.twitter.com/BQMADQkvgn
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) July 1, 2017
Who knew that the man who may end up destroying the northeastern transportation network would injure the NJ economy out of spite https://t.co/1ABrE36IZC
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 1, 2017
He is banking everything on that sports radio show, isn't he? https://t.co/xC10mhytGd
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 1, 2017
When you’re as thirsty as Crispie Christie, even negative attention is better than no attention at all…
Christie spent night with family in shuttered Island Beach State Park https://t.co/2h2YkFhXfY via @ryanhutchins pic.twitter.com/eRxScz86he
— POLITICO (@politico) July 2, 2017
Gov. Chris Christie joined his family at a state-owned retreat in Island Beach State Park on Saturday night, less than 24 hours after ordering the closure of all state parks and beaches because of the budget impasse in Trenton.
The governor addressed members of the Legislature about the stalemate on Saturday and then left the capital for the park, a spokesman confirmed Sunday morning.
Christie, his wife, his children and their guests have the run of the 10-mile barrier island, where police are turning away all others visitors over the long holiday weekend.
During a news conference in Trenton, Christie said it was his right to stay in the park even if no one else can visit.
“That’s because the governor has a residence at Island Beach. Others don’t,” Christie said on Saturday, the first day of the state shutdown. “It’s just the way it goes. Run for governor and then you can have the residence.”…
The property is guarded by state police, who are not subject to the shutdown order. The governor has a personal security detail that follows him everywhere he goes….
As they say in Asbury Park: Christ, what an asshole.
ETA:
Christie ordered beaches closed down due to a gov shutdown. Today, he and his family enjoyed a state beach alone https://t.co/8zBkkShcBn pic.twitter.com/xpLQynT18r
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 2, 2017
Baud
I blame Democratic hubris.
sherparick
A big, fat middle finger, saying “You voted for me twice, suckers!!” Another lesson learned, no matter how bad the Democrat (John Corzine), the Republican will always be worse.
PaulWartenberg
even the Republicans in the state lege should just vote a veto-proof budget over Christie’s stupid bullying arse.
Baud
@sherparick: This lesson needs to be learned.
efgoldman
Hasn’t Governor Mucilage shut a bunch of things down in Maine for the same reason?
I don’t know if he shut the state parks for the holiday weekend, but it’s exactly the kind of spiteful thing he’d do.
PsiFighter37
Kim Guadagno probably isn’t a fan of this move. Lulz
Uncle Cosmo
State park crammed with a broken zero
On a last-gasp power trip…
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Did he not undergo weight loss surgery of some type? Doesn’t seem to have taken. I don’t say this to fat shame. Trey Gowdy and Louis Gohmert are gaunt and are terrible people.
Mike J
They can show Jaws on a loop. Remember when the politician wanted to keep the beaches open?
lurker dean
the jackass also denied he got any sun. f-ing a-hole.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html
“At a Sunday news conference on the shutdown, Christie was asked if he got any sun today.
“I didn’t,” he said. “… I didn’t get any sun today.”
When later told of the photo, Brian Murray, the governor’s spokesman, said:
“Yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today talking to his wife and family before heading into the office. He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on.”
Hungry Joe
Fictional, James Bond-ish villains revel in their own villainy; real-life bad guys come up with reasons to justify, if only to themselves, their evil deeds. I wonder what story Christie has fashioned for himself this time. I bet it’s a doozy … but then, he’s had a lot of practice.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Apparently living under Republican leadership isn’t enough to teach it, though.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Hungry Joe:
I do appreciate that he largely shivved Boots Rubio in ’16.
JPL
@lurker dean: What was on the baseball cap? Maybe it was MAGA.
Iowa Old Lady
I was just reading on facebook that the artist who did the cover for my middle grade novel worked on the My Little Pony movie coming out in the fall. Cool.
MomSense
@efgoldman:
It’s only a partial shit down so all the state parks are open. We are currently overrun with cars with Jersey plates.
Gin & Tonic
@lurker dean: It would have to be the world’s largest baseball hat to shade that pig.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I guess people in New Jersey can’t wait to see the back of this guy. What an asshole. I don’t understand why so many voters seem to be taken with the idea of electing assholes. I guess they think assholes are less likely to take any shit. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but one thing about assholes, they hand out a whole lot of shit. Maybe people will learn something this time.
Ruckus
What gets me is that Crispy is by no means the worst of the lot. For sure he’s horrible but not even close to the worst.
He wasn’t bad enough for drumpf. Think about that for a moment if you have the stomach.
Wag
Sandy, that State Park I was hoping to see lost its appeal for me
I tried to make camping reservations last week , but Christie won’t let have a fire this warm 4th of July night
El Caganer
@MomSense: Actually, Chubs Chubbie shits down all the time. All over the state, too.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Ain’t that the truth!
SiubhanDuinne
The utter and contemptible arrogance of this guy.
@MomSense:
I saw what you did there.
Robin Gittelman
@lurker dean: Um . . . Not for nothing (and I’m fat too) but that baseball cap didn’t shade his whole body.
p.a.
Kansas successfully exiled its head vampire (leaving the sub vamps in the state lege of course). Landing spots for Crispy? St. Helena have a consulate?
NotMax
Dragged the infamous traffic cones out of storage to block the entrances?
lurker dean
@JPL: that would have been good, considering how publicly trump castrated christie.
Ruckus
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
You’d think people might just learn a bit. But no, they reelect the guy in KS. The reelect this guy. Maybe conservative dogma is about turning the learning curve into a circle. Keep coming back for more shit. Like one of the Monty Python upper class twits.
MomSense
@El Caganer:
Sleudian frip.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
My dog the political situation has caused my auto correct to assume swears first.
NotMax
Annual repetition. Because it’s that good.
Universe’s best (non-mayo) potato salad.
CZanne
@West of the Rockies (been a while): He’s lost about 100 pounds — that’s clearly visible. But 1) I’m going to assume that his microbiome is fubar’ed. It often is, with his history and high stress. Getting down from a BMI in the upper 40s to 50s to the thirties is absolutely success, and for that, he deserves praise. It’s hard work, it’s painful, and it’s not magic.
2) surgery doesn’t fix obsessive, emotional or compulsive eating. It just makes it more difficult. That takes a commitment to cognitive therapy work, and that is something people like him won’t take on.
Mike in NC
Where are the Great White Sharks when you really need them?
NotMax
@NotMax
Heh. Wrong thread. Gonna repost downstairs..
El Caganer
And we’ll always have this to remember him by: http://makeagif.com/gif/chris-christies-seductive-dance-t0deN5
Lurking Canadian
@Ruckus: That’s what I was thinking, too. You can’t just refer to “That overweight, thin-skinned, Republican loudmouth who abuses reporters in public”. You have to specify which one.
I do not understand people who vote for Republicans. How do you grow to adulthood having completely missed the fundamental “Dos” and “Don’ts” of living in a society? Were none of them Boy Scouts? Did they never watch Sesame Street?
NotMax
@Mike in NC
Make white sharks great again.
SiubhanDuinne
@Lurking Canadian:
Or Mister Rogers, FFS?
Chet Murthy
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Must correct: *male* assholes. Let a woman be even a mite difficult-to-deal-with, and she’s a harpy. Beyond the pale. A witch.
ETA: Oh, and “difficult-to-deal-with” == “doesn’t do everything the Rs dream of”.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: you had to put it here too because it’s that good.
efgoldman
@SiubhanDuinne:
When shittier shitheads are made, RWNJs will be them.
Villago Delenda Est
Until voters stop voting for these assholes, they’re going to get buggered repeatedly with no reach-around.
When will they ever learn?
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Also too, Ding Dong School and Captain Kangaroo. For that matter, even Beany & Cecil or Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Barbara
How many ways can you give the middle finger to your constituents? As if the GW bridge stunt wasn’t sufficiently contemptuous, he needed to screw them as they were trying to get to work and then again when they were trying to get a few days away.
Frankensteinbeck
@Hungry Joe:
Real life assholes justify their actions by blaming the victim. Most likely he believes those signs.
@Ruckus:
As per above, it is very, very hard to learn from your mistakes if you always blame someone else for them. Conservatives will endure incredible suffering before doing anything except digging in, because their suffering just proves how important it is to make Those People pay.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
As per usual when it comes to matters of taste, we disagree.
efgoldman
@Barbara:
Term limited as noted above; couldn’t get elected county dog officer now, and he knows it. Why should he give a shit, really?
Mnemosyne
Also, a message for the Juicers who are also writers: there is still room in our Balloon-Juice Camp NaNoWriMo cabin. So far there’s me, Miss Bianca, R-Jud, stinger, and a lurker. If you’d also like to join up for some writing support this month, send me a Gmail at Mnemosyne dot muse.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Mike in NC:
We’re gonna need a bigger shark….
Frankensteinbeck
@Lurking Canadian:
I believe they learned that people observe those rules only out of fear. It fits my suspicion that child abuse is the norm, not the exception, in America.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Totally. Balsamic vinegar is an abomination. Tastes like liquified moth flakes. Will not suffer having it in the larder.
Josie
@NotMax: Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Calming Influence
“State Parks” are just the thin edge of the wedge to Socialism anyway. We obviously don’t want that, so we should judge Christie’s behavior in the context of how we want our future overlords to behave. I would vote for less hubris, but there probably won’t be a vote.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: I made the mistake of clicking your link. A cup of sugar??? Thanks so fucking much for the insulin spike. Don’t you arseholes here know any diabetics, or do y’all consider killing us off part of the charm of your cuisine??
Ladyraxterinok
The contempt our so-called leaders have for us is so brazen and ‘out there’ now. They no longer feel there is any need to pretend. They think ‘So what? What can you poor slobs do about it?’
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I have drunk some of the milder varieties of balsamic vinegar straight, and enjoyed it. Tastes vary. ?
Mnemosyne
@Uncle Cosmo:
Go with my recipe! A little vermouth, but no sugar, and the croutons are optional.
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
All true but how badly are they suffering? A great number of the people that voted for drumpf don’t seem to be in all that bad of shape, other than maybe in their minds. Their suffering is an awful lot of bullshit and not much else. OK maybe ingesting all that bullshit has given them …… stupid.
Calming Influence
@Mnemosyne: chilled Tabasco is also tasty. Seriously.
Kay
Christie’s another one. He’s mad all the time. Why? My God, what else does he need? He just took a helicopter to the beach. Why is he snarling at people?
Trump spent the day tweeting and golfing. He’s mad too.
Kathleen
If only Christie had campaigned in Wisconsin.
NotMax
@Uncle Cosmo
Sweet and sour requires sweet. (It’s a very old Pennsy Dutch recipe, cadged and slightly adjusted from a pamphlet of recipes printed in the 1930s.) Sugar substitute (Stevia or whatever) would probably work as well*.
Too, it makes a lot of potato salad, so 1 cup for the amount of end product isn’t all that much. One batch lasts me more than a week.
*although am unfamiliar with cooking using those products, so possible some sort of thickener might have to be added as well to achieve the thick creaminess of the dressing. A soupçon of arrowroot or cornstarch, I suppose.
Ruckus
@Kay:
They are mad because they don’t have everything.
OK crispy is probably mad because no one likes him, and he couldn’t even get a job with drumpf.
drumpf is mad because…… OK he’s just fucking nuts. OK he’s probably mad because life hasn’t worked out exactly the way he pictured it in nursery school. Which for him was last week.
Calming Influence
Republicans think taxes are evil. To show their patriotism, Democrats should stop paying taxes. Since Republicans hold the House, the Senate, and the White House, they can now easily demonstrate how well a tax-free government works.
Woodrowfan
@Ruckus: I wish he were veep instead of Pence. that’s how bad it is.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ladyraxterinok:
I know. It’s all “Hahaha, I’m President and you’re not, nyah nyah nyah!” Or “I’m Governor so I get a nice beach house, you might get one too if you were governor!” It’s a finger to the eye and “Go ahead and do something about it, I dare you!” Classic bullying behaviour.
Gretchen
That potato salad sounds good. I’m making the Cook’s Illustrated one for a bbq tomorrow. They recommend sprinkling a little white vinegar over the potatoes while they’re still warm. It soaks in and seasons the potatoes for a little extra zing. I wonder if the vermouth serves the same function. I may try that.
randy khan
@Mnemosyne:
Come sit closer to me. I don’t trust this NotMax character.
Anne Laurie
@MomSense:
What an extraordinarily… appropriate typo!
(With Gov. Mucilage as the ‘shit’ in question, of course.)
NotoriousJRT
An asshole who “tells it like it is” is still at hie core an asshole.
Woodrowfan
@Mnemosyne: email sent
Ladyraxterinok
@Lurking Canadian: Probably thought Big Bird was a wimp because he didn’t beat up everybody. But probably did not watch because there are no gun fights and explosions. Boring.
Gretchen
@Woodrowfan: I forgot he was under consideration for veep. I would feel better thinking he’s next in line than Christian zealot Dense. It’s a really good thing to have smart people in charge.
randy khan
@PsiFighter37:
It only would be better if he had invited her to the park for the weekend.
The amazing thing is that, if the stories I’ve seen are right, this fight isn’t really over the budget. Christie wants legislation bundled with the budget to seize excess surpluses from the biggest insurer in the state (which is state owned, strangely enough), and the speaker of the Assembly won’t include that in the budget package.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I signed up and I just sent you an email too.
Gretchen
@Frankensteinbeck: I think you’re right about child abuse in America. My husband is marveling that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is enabling Trump’s bad behavior, and wondering how she would react if her children behaved that way. I pointed out that her brother got kicked out of the Boy Scouts for killing a dog, and said that abused people abuse others, including animals. If dad abused one child, he probably abused them all. Evangelicals especially feel that everyone being religious is very important, because why would anyone behave if they weren’t afraid of eternal damnation? The idea of just being kind to others because that’s the right way to behave is foreign to them.
NobodySpecial
Well, at least one good piece of news in a place with a Republican governor: Illinois Republicans finally blinked.
chris
@Lurking Canadian: They watched 17 years of Survivor and Big Brother. Assholes win!
debbie
Christie’s doing this to impress Trump. He wants back in.
d58826
@Baud: I blame her e-mails.
Seriously he would have been a perfect fit in the nest of vipers that we used to call the White House.
Mike J
@NobodySpecial: In Washington, we finally got a budget deal that had something for everyone. Democrats got more money for schools, Republicans got the property tax hike they demanded.
Patricia Kayden
@SiubhanDuinne: New Jerseyites voted for him twice. They only have themselves to blame.
Villago Delenda Est
@Patricia Kayden: As I said upstairs: When will they ever learn?
eemom
He’s goin’ down down down down down….
VOR
@Villago Delenda Est: Walker keeps getting elected in Wisconsin too.
NotMax
Likely already mentioned, but what the hey.
Troubled luxury property pays out to cease use of the name Trump.
Mike J
@NotMax: I’ll let them not use my name for a lot less.
nightranger
Remember that wrong way Cole used to openly say that this guy was totally awesome. I believe he still thinks that but knows better than to say it openly now. Same with Griftwald. He even posted a link from the intercept not too long ago so he definitely still reads what that grifter writes.
NobodySpecial
@nightranger: I remember when you weren’t here, that was pretty awesome too.
NotMax
In other news, Gulf tensions set to ratchet up another notch (emphasis added).
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I have to enter my project on the website yet. I just sent you a reply.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
It is capable of learning.
Given everything, I don’t find that especially reassuring.
NotMax
Watching a movie about the plot to assassinate Trotsky, The Chosen. Pretty good, although the pacing is uneven.
Frankensteinbeck
@Gretchen:
American Fundamentalism is built on such toxic stew of hypocritical, hate-based codes, I would be astonished to find that more than a tiny sliver of their families aren’t seriously abusive. There are whole swathes and movements within Fundamentalism built around child abuse as their central concept. Every time you hear them talk about schools on the subjects of liberal indoctrination, prayer, or abstinence only sex-ed, they out themselves as child abusers whose strategy of child rearing is forced ignorance to lock their child into their own mold. That’s the LOW end of their abuse spectrum.
Another Scott
@NotMax: 48 hours more:
The G20 meeting starts on Friday July 7.
It’s gonna be a “fun” week…
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike J
@Lurking Canadian:
Goofus voted for Trump
Gallant voted for the continuing survival of humanity.
Karen
@MomSense: I am close enough to Grafton Notch that planned to not even go to Tractor Supply until next weekend
CDWard
What an asshole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Uncle Cosmo: Bruce, dat you?
OGLiberal
The folks in NJ who voted for Trump soured on Christie before his re-election. They’ve hated him for years. They liked him yelling at teachers but that’s about it. Christie got re-elected because the Dems conceded the election without even trying and I think some Dems voted for him because of Sandy and because the Dem candidate was literally nobody. Everybody regretted it soon after. The crazy Trump folks in NJ hate Christie. Doesn’t make them good people but they do not like him at all. My friend, who was a teacher and is now a school administrator hated Christie because of his attacks on education but loves him some Trump because of something about personal responsibility and competition, never mind that DeVos is worse on education than Christie, and that’s hard to achieve. Actually, it’s easy….just be a bigger asshole.
Jeffro
At this point, the parties have sorted themselves into the Party of Spite and the Party of Normal Human Progress. The POS seems to think that their whole reason for living is to spite other people, hold them back, take shots at them, undermine them, treat them as the other, even if it means committing acts of treason with a hostile foreign power bent on bringing the whole country down.
It’s important that in every way possible, the POS (collectively and individually) feels the impact of its bad choices. Ballot box or brickbat, or both, they need to understand that no one’s going to take this lying down.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: Jared has veto power. He will never let Christie in. Ever.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jeffro: POS: Party of Spite, or Piece of Shit?
Why not both?
Another Scott
@Villago Delenda Est: Maybe, maybe not. VF:
FWIW.
Christie is looking for something to do after he leaves office in NJ. He will do anything not to burn bridges with Donnie, even if it means being Jared’s butler.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike in NC
I can remember being in New Jersey back when Whitman was governor and taxes had been slashed so much that they sent agents to every weekend flea market and yard sale to make sure people were kicking in every possible penny to the state coffers. It was pathetic but emblematic of Republicanism.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: Yet they no doubt ignored millionaires dodging taxes left and right, for reasons.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike in NC: @Villago Delenda Est: I remember reading that Christie Todd keeps a small, picturesque herd of cattle in a corner of her country estate to get the agricultural tax breaks
Aleta
Is a vote coming soon, now that (if this is true) the Repubs have sent their plan to the CBO to compare the monetary effects of Cruz’s addition? Is it nuts to wonder if Christie might be doing his part to change the subject?
Viva BrisVegas
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Christie is a good example of how the asshole status ranking works.
He gets to be alpha male until a bigger asshole enters the room, in which case he submits as a beta male and seeks to be dominated.
The case in point being Christie’s behaviour around Trump.
Brachiator
Wow. Christie could teach a master class in assholery.
Meanwhile, a little further up into New York…
Jezebel has an interesting article on a holiday party in the Hamptons attended by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The party attendees are, of course, almost exclusively white. The guests include a former owner of the Washington Post and other blue bloods who look down on Trump. A good number of these people probably voted for Clinton, and some are Democratic politicians. But for this crowd, the only thing worse than their phony snobbery is their craven hypocrisy.
http://jezebel.com/heres-everyone-whos-partying-with-jared-and-ivanka-in-t-1796590925
cain
I am a huge fan of Mark Hamill, more that, Mark Hamill IS the voice of The Joker. He’s famous for his voice acting as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. (which all of you should watch) Anyhoo, Mark started reading recent tweets from Trump as the Joker. So completely awesome. See it here
Aleta
@Brachiator: Charles Koch. But of course.
Brachiator
@cain:
Great stuff. Thanks.
Raven
Wrapping up the visit to LA, went to the grammy hall of fame in the middle of a massive Anamie convention. Shit was weird.
Chet Murthy
@Raven: uh “Anamie”? did you mean “anime”? something else? Just curious.
Raven
@Chet Murthy: yea, that’s what I mean. There were thousands of people in all states of weirdness.
Brachiator
@Raven:
The Grammy hall of fame or the anime?
Another Scott
@Aleta: They’re on break (“State work period”) until the week of July 10. They’ll probably try to ram it through as soon as possible early that week.
We have to fight them every single day…
Cheers,
Scott.
Timurid
@Chet Murthy:
More exciting than an Anomie Convention, whatever it was…
Raven
@Brachiator: the grammy joint was cool, actually both were. We took the train from LAX to downtown and THAT was interesting!
Raven
@Timurid: y’all knew what I meant. I’m exhausted and typing on this damn phone. I was in the ocean@ 6:30 just to start the day!
Another Scott
@Timurid: I’ll bet an Anemone Convention would be pretty neat though.
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
@Raven:
Yeah, Anime is an interesting genre. I watch anime with friends every Monday. I specalize in geekiness. Although, I’m not at all what you would call a regular watcher. In fact, indians never watch this stuff, which solidifies the whole “he’s only indian on the outside, but he’s really a white midwest geek”. Coconut perhaps? This is why I drive my fellow south indian friends crazy. ;-)
Another Scott
@Raven: Ooh. Frolicking in the Pacific. We’re supposed to feel sorry for you about that?
:-)
Sleep well, everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mnemosyne
@Raven:
Um, yeah, I’m not sure I would have advised that particular train trip. But at least it sounds like you made it through with your wallets intact.
Peale
@Timurid: I wonder who the keynote speaker at the anomie convention could be. It’s both the easiest and most difficult gig on the public speaking circuit, I’d imagine.
NotMax
@Peale
Steven Wright.
Also repeated screenings of Bette Midler’s “Why bother?” short. Still LOL.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Oh the Blue Line; yeah, that’s interesting.
ETA: I took the Blue Line down to the Watts towers and on to Long Beach last year.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: We rode the Blue Line to our Long Beach office when it first opened, it was quite nice. The trip took too long and our manager told us to take our cars(actually my car).
ETA: That, of course was 25 years ago, the trip last year was, eh, different.
Brachiator
@Raven:
Actually, I kid. I know people who do the anime convention and always have big fun.
The train. Didn’t that involve multiple transfers? People, if you do public transportation from LAX to downtown LA, the modest priced direct route is the LAX shuttle bus from the airport to Union Station.
..
Peale
@NotMax: yeah. Do you go for broke trying to find the most inspirational speaker in history? Or the least. Or just pick the cheapest because no one will bother to pay attention anyway.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: It would involve only one transfer from the Green Line to the Blue Line. Depending on traffic, it could be faster.
Brachiator
I’m so glad that there are no international hot spots to draw Trump away from his Twitter fights with MSNBC. Nothing like this recent BBC story:
Brachiator
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You have to take a shuttle from LAX to the Green Line Station. Then you have to move from the Green Line to the Blue Line. This is a pain in the butt if you have luggage. I would not even want to do it with a single backpack. The LAX bus cruises along the dedicated bus lane on the 110 from the 105 freeway. Travel time is usually pretty good. And the seats are more comfortable than the Metro trains.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: Forgot about the shuttle from the airport to the Green Line, you are correct there. The transfer from the Green to Blue line is trivial, I did that last year with camera bags. The shuttle uses the HOV lanes on the 110 and 105 so they could be impacted by traffic.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, and once at Union Station you’d have to catch the Red Line and then transfer to the Blue Line at 7th Street to get to LA Live.
Aleta
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
I once took the Big Blue Bus from Westwood to LAX. The only transfer was to the bus that took me from the transit depot to the terminals, but it was kind of a pain in the ass.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne: Sent you an email re NatNoWriMo. I will be the designated slacker in the group. Someone has to make the rest of you look insanely productive.
George Spiggott
Outlaw Jersey Whale gets beached.
Elizabelle
@George Spiggott: Win!
sherparick
@efgoldman: Again, a plurality of Maine voters voted for the guy twice, apparently because the considered being an asshole was a feature, not a bug. Currently, LePage has shutdown the Maine Government so that he can increase the tax on and eliminate lands in conservation trust and easements (apparently a goal of Linda Bean, a big Trumpista).
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: Except that there is now another museum in Lost Wagers: the National Atomic Testing Museum, which I visited shortly after it opened on my only trip there. Not sure if it’s worth the rather pricey ticket, but the gift shop is a hoot & it’s free – that’s where I got my Albert Einstein Action Figure (complete with sweat shirt & chalk in one hand). I’m waiting to collect Action Figures of the other big names in physics, Isaac Newton & Stephen Hawking (although a Stephen Hawking Action Figure would be something of a cruel joke – unless he comes sitting on his scooter…)
Uncle Cosmo
@Aleta: Joining Task Force Mueller in three, two , one…
Calming Influence
@Uncle Cosmo: Need to complete my set of “My Dinner With Andre” action figures before I move on to physicists.