It's pledge break time at KCRW, so my segment did not air last Friday in the usual 4:44 pm slot and will miss this coming week too. LA Observed on KCRW returns August 22. If you want to check out some older commentaries, here's the archive. To update my last segment, the LA Weekly's Max Taves has posted a blog follow-up to his story on the rat ladies of Pacific Palisades: here. It's kind of disgusting.

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