ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - First up, I should explain exactly what a 37mm launcher is.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Join me in demanding that Los Angeles be awarded more Michelin stars.  We practically invented gridlock and automobile pollution! 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Guardian News and Media offered a blistering review of Fox’s World Cup coverage, spanning the full dizzying scope of what they referred to as, “witlessness” in Qatar.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Bad Bunny has been the most-streamed artist in the world for three years in a row. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The lower-end motel on Ventura Boulevard is now billing itself as Boutique Cottages.  Catchy.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - When the hot Santa Ana winds come through, the local fauna can spring into action a little early. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Eric Garcetti was one of four very nice co-chairs of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, including Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Go Blue.  

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The big flaming thing streaking across the sky the other night was the Artemis 1 moon mission rocket, not Rick Caruso's campaign for mayor flaming out.   Don't cry for Rick, he's a fighter.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - President Biden: (Applause)  That guy is the real deal, man. As you just heard from Jill — Jill, he’s a combat veteran and a Rhodes Scholar. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - In Billionaire news and I'm paraphrasing, Elon Musk, who took over Twitter recently said he's focused on not doing dumb stuff, but rather doing stuff that's not dumb.  Excellent. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - How diverse are candidates in the midterm elections? 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Krekorian was in fine form, carefully trying to enforce the rules in the face of an angry dozen or so speakers who have been yelling at city council for several weeks. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Rick Caruso who is running for mayor against Karen Bass said he’d met with former L.A. County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera in the same room where the infamous tape was supposedly recorded.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - With Democrats on verge of losing their razor-thin majority in Congress, the party is asking former President Barack Obama to perform some late-game heroics.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A well-regarded Oaxacan public speaker said, “I’m dark brown and I'm short. It’s not only racist, it's colorist. Thank you.”  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Thomas Hagen is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's films The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). He is portrayed by Robert Duvall in the movies. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Gil Cedillo said in a text to The LA Times it was ordinarily his instinct “to hold others accountable when they use derogatory or racially divisive language.”  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Among the ‘a little too late’ motions, one member of the public was imagining a Motion for mental health funding, to cover the staff trauma from this entire mess unfolding at City Hall in Los Angeles.