WCS 15 The New York Edition

More workplace protections for workers who use weed, from Protest City to Gotham

The New York Edition comes from writing out this sojourn out of Northeast LA.

Stay with me.

Prior to hiking it up to Oregon in 2009, I was a full-blown Westsider, residing on Broadway in Venice. Before that we were in The Palms neighborhood. My then-partner and I used to joke about the people around us who were more likely to hit LaGuardia than spend time in East LA. It’s a lifestyle and, even as a veteran Eastsider, I can still see the merits of getting down like that.

So, this week The Sojourn takes the red-eye. It’s noshing on cannoli and it’s fuckin’ walkin’ heah.

Because it loves New York.

Maybe Shohei Ohtani will pitch and hit and heal the homelessness crisis.

10 Let memes and trends mark your time online?

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The staff at New York’s Vulture has this idea that online 2023 can be organized into eras. Their staff’s idea of the best internet memes, trends, and drama are not mine. Not close. But the idea that all internet happenings fall into one of seven distinct year-defining eras intrigues me, especially because the concept seems like cheap Taylor Swift Eras exploitation.
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• The Dylan Mulvaney episode exemplifies how these dust-ups can play out. An Anheuser-Busch exec decided to pay tribute to the trans TikTok star with a can featuring their face. Sales of the crap beer promptly fell 28 percent as crap beer drinkers hate queer humans. People were fired, America was exposed. And we barely remember.

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• Despite announced plans, no badly-needed children’s park will be developed near that Lake Washington nude beach known locally as Dykiki.
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• Starbucks is down $12 billion over the past two months, as protest against its support for Israel has piggybacked onto the Red Cup rebellion and other labor strife. Also, discourse on Gaza violence is more open than at any point in my lifetime. Both of these developments owe something to the worldwide boycott of Palestinian beatdown facilitators.
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9 Post-strike LA welcomes the Shohei Ohtan-omy

I am being hosted in Glassell Park, literally in the shadow of Dodger Stadium.

On Friday afternoon, feverish word went out over ESPN’s LA’s airwaves, via the