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Proposed legislation bodes ill for California’s food trucks: A state assemblyman wants to significantly limit where lunch wagons can operate, keeping them even farther from schools than marijuana dispensaries. His legislation could put many of the mobile kitchens out of business just as the industry is surging with creativity.
Photo: John Hill plays with his son Jackson, 3, while waiting in line at the Gastrobus at the Los Feliz Farmers Market. The colorful trucks are becoming nearly as emblematic of California as surfboards and convertibles. Credit: Christina House / For The Times
comparing it to marijuana dispensaries is bad red herring fallacy. although, the assemblyman feels compelled to save all children from childhood obesity, which is completely absurd, trying to shed a bad light on a completely unrelated operation seems like bad reporting. just the facts, please, and keep your opinions out of it, please.
Comparing a proposed zoning law to an already existing zoning law actually sounds like good reporting. And, if you read the story, you would find that this comparison is being actively discussed by food truck operators and state lawmakers (“Monning’s bill suggests that food trucks are more dangerous than marijuana, Geller groused”).
Is this a good or bad thing? Depends on what the food trucks are offering…
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
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Amazing new place in Palm Springs - not glam but certainly very happy. Nice to see so much color. Will have to check this place out over the new month or so…
Daughters
Had book group last night. We’d read The Marriage Plot - a nine-year labor of love from Pulitzer prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides. There was a lot of talk, there always is a lot of talk. But one thing particularly stuck with me. I woke up with it still ringing around in my head. What we would wish for our daughters during their college years? A Leonard or a Mitchell? That crazy intense love that definitely has a dark side or something sweeter and perhaps milder. Are they the only choices? I’m not sure we’ll hold much sway when it comes to choosing boyfriends or falling in love - what mother does? What parent does? I hope I’m a good listener and that Lu will share her stories with me like I did with my mother.
Above: Lu drawing on a postcard at SFMOMA’s cool new rooftop sculpture garden.
I came across this list that Fitzgerald wrote for his 11 year old daughter. It’s interesting…although not sure Lu will have to worry about horsemanship. But you never know!
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?
With dearest love,
Daddy
(Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie, in 1924.)
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