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Love that India Sweets and Spices, where the primary draws are price and ridiculous Bollywood videos playing while you scarf vegetarian goodness. (Taken with Instagram at India Sweets & Spices)

Nick Karno, a city attorney for Los Angeles and my good friend, just dealt some justice to Big Oil.  Nice work, Karno!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/pipeline-company-to-pay-la-175-million-for-oil-spill.html

http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeandcourts/ci_20692665/pipeline-firm-settles-1-75m-over-2010-dominguez?source=rss

I had the privilege of hanging with my old friend George Veech and his band, Strangled Darlings, up in Portland a few weeks ago.  Here they are complete with apples, a snake, and a bathtub.  Directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Julian Thieme.

Producer Jude Weng showed me this little gem.  5 people play 1 guitar.  “We don’t need no stinkin’ $3 million music video budgets…”

It is my constant and eternal duty to present weird videos about my namesake.

It’a time for radiolab at Royce Hall

Obama Endorses Gay Marriage.  A big step forward was taken today.

Click here to add your support and stand with the President and stand up for civil rights for all Americans.

I turn my back for one instant and cup stacking becomes a sport.

Here’s a link to coverage of the finals of the—no, I’m not kidding here—2011 World Sport Stacking Championship.

Art deco doors in the hills (Taken with instagram)

@PiWareFilmmaker: The Cranky Bird. 1 oz each brandy, cointreau, lemon juice. 3/4 oz simple syrup. Raw egg. Shake on ice. Amaaaaaazing.

Feeds her kangaroos, then plays the spoons to The Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy”.  Gotta love them Aussies.

Stephen King is rich. And wants fair taxation.

Read this article at the Daily Beast.

What is this driver shipping?

Both Tribeca Film Festival Audience Awards won by Filmmakers Alliance films!  Tom Putnam’s “Burn:  One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit” took home the Documentary Audience Award, and Liam Finn’s “Any Day Now”, starring Alan Cumming, won the Narrative Audience Award.  Congratulations to two diligent and dedicated filmmakers!

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A big win for documentary filmmakers.  The IRS was dangerously close to declaring that all docs are hobbies and disallowing business expense write-offs on taxes.  The IDA submitted an Amicus brief in the Lee Storey case, fighting against that absurd idea that docs aren’t a business out to make a profit.

And we won.  Take a look at this article in Forbes…

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/04/19/maker-of-up-with-people-movie-knocks-down-irs/