Lisa Beebe at Blogging.la noticed a Mary Kay cosmetics peddler making sales to passengers on the MTA's 152 bus. When Beebe got on again two hours later to go home, the Mary Kaw woman was still working it. She blogs: "Is it possible she stays on the bus all day, and treats it like her portable store? It seems like a pretty good deal, if that's the case -- she pays $1.25 to work from a sunny, air-conditioned location where she has a constant stream of potential customers...Now that I think about it, I'm surprised the buses aren't full of traveling salespeople."

Blogging.la has also been full of observations from an Austrian visitor named Johannes. He notices things that natives might not -- for instance, that there are no dots on the i's on L.A. street signs.