So this week has been pretty shitty in terms of weather. Rain rain and more rain, and it's not even good, mellow, normal Mediterranean rain. Everyone I know has been telling me LA needs it, but what isn't understood is that the over-paved, over-channelized wasteland people call a desert absorbs little of the water, deposits massive amounts of pollutants into the ocean and frankly is spooky after the 80-degree-in-the-middle-of-January weather we had three weeks ago. Climate change? You tell me.
Just about the only good thing about the crap weather has been that it's turned every dumpster in the greater Claremont area into a natural freezer (that, the lack of smog and the abundance of jaw dropping views of a snow covered Baldy...though be wary of the crowds before you set off to hitch a ride up the mountain). And why is that a positive? Because the massive amounts of food being thrown out all around town are kept nice and fresh for those smart and brave enough to pay tribute to the dumpster gods and harvest said abundance.
I won't give away the choicest locations around here because half the fun is figuring out who, what, when and where (which will, having solved all those criteria, invariably reveal "why"). I will say however that diving is very much something to be done in Claremont, where you'll probably be the only gleaner at these most abundant and unaware dumpsters.
Finally, if anyone was unconvinced by my last post on the badass-ness of KSPC, tonight yours truly won two free tickets to see Lewis Black perform on Friday at Big Bridges Auditorium. I only brag to keep everyone on their toes. Go get it Claremont, get that freedom.
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