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Rabbit Planet

M took me to this hilarious place.  Long Beach City College is overrun with rabbits, big, fat, brazen ones who will run up to strangers and beg for food.  

  This one hopped up so fast that he almost knocked into my camera.

At first, I was just so delighted by their cute-ness:

 

 

The rabbit above [...]

The Facts of Life

 The Facts of Life….are online!

http://www.hulu.com/the-facts-of-life?c=Comedy/Sitcoms

Yippie for hulu.com, a YouTube-like website, run by television networks which offers free TV shows – current faves like 30 Rock and nostalgic ones like Diff’rent Strokes and One Day at a Time.  Blast from the past!

 

Free Fridays at Santa Anita Racetrack

A message from Santa Anita Park:

FREE FRIDAYSWe know times are tough, so every Friday, beginning January 2, you will receive FREE General Admission!

Not only do you get Free General Admission, Santa Anita will also have $1 specials on Hot Dogs, Beer, Soda and Popcorn. The first 100 guests will receive FREE [...]

Human Google Day, Part II

Advertised in the Palos Verdes Library:

 

 

Get organized and laugh in the new year!

UnHip LA wishes you a happy holiday!

Here are Christmas lawn decorations from the South Bay, found on Human Google Day.

 

 

 

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

Human Google Day, Part I

UnHip LA roamed around the South Bay, vowing not to use Google as a resource.  We decided to use our eyes and ears and become human Googles instead.  Look what we found:

 

 

 

 

By following good ol’ street signs, we wound up at the South Coast Botanic Garden, which is "one of the first gardens to be [...]

14 days of fun

Much media attention lately has been focused on budget ways to have fun and get by.  Take at look at this LA Times series of well-known designers, such as Philippe Starck, shopping at Big Lots and coming up with great looks:

Starck and the other designers emphasize finding simple and basic items and steering clear [...]

Make a Free Tile at the South Pas Arts Fest

This Saturday, November 15, the City of South Pasadena will be hosting its Fall Arts Fest, featuring artist open houses, holiday boutiques, art-making workshops, music performances and much more.  Check out the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce’s site for details.  Mission Tile West (853 Mission) will host a free tile-making workshop from 2 pm [...]

Free cuppa Joe for Joe the Plumber

Starbucks will give you a free cup of coffee if you tell them you voted on election day. What I really want is a free banana chocolate Vivano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2J8KJDsqqY

This reminds me of report card rewards in Ohio. Local businesses (Friendly’s) would give free ice cream and food for good report cards.  I wonder what else I [...]

Ahoy Matey!

Learn about the Port of Long Beach at the Green Port Festival, Saturday, October 4, 2008.  Free boat and train rides and a WHOLE LOT MORE.  Visit the site for details.

http://www.polb.com/community/portfest.asp