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Blog: Rabble-Rousing About L.A.'s Uncleaned Nuclear Meltdown!

An update on The Ukulady's Fired-For-Being-Gay BFF, Silverlake Coffee & Nuclear Meltdown Larger than Three-Mile Island in LA!

Dear Blob,

It's exciting to see the news of my Fired-For-Being-Gay, BFF, Mitch Stein, spread like super-creamy high-end-artisan-butterfat frosting....quickly & smoothly! 

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Thanks to Glendora Patch reporter, Aaron Castrejon's story, my BFF's story has been featured on Perez Hilton, Advocate.com and today on Bill Handel's radio show & NBC!  Here's to the power of grassroots Blobbing and to the Downfall of Evil!

In other news, I recently had tea with another fabulous gay pal at Silverlake Coffee, across the street from Still Yoga, one of my yogaerys of choice.  Luckily, Jason is not facing homophobia and discrimination these days.  We discussed Jason's independent filmmaking, Silverlake's new Community Garden on Micheltorena & the impending 2012 Shift, when our friend, the Mayan calender ends.  We are both hoping it will be a Great Consciousness Transition; probably ignited by drastic global events, like war or nuclear meltdowns.

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Speaking of Nuclear Meltdowns, aside from being a gay rights activist, I am on a mission to educate Angelenos about a Nuclear Meltdown Larger than Three-Mile Island right Here in LA, which has never been cleaned up and has been covered up for over 30 years. 

Blob 'n' Readers, I writespeak of the Rocketdyne Meltdown of 1959 in Northridge/Simi Valley.  My mom was a teen at San Fernando High School, where she was classmates & roller-skating buddies with Richie Valens of La Bamba fame.  Aside from having a stillborn baby in 1959, she has also suffered from lifelong, chronic and undiagnoseable ailments since and attributes all her weird immune-deficiencies to the Meltdown.

I always tell my Valley Dweller pals about the Rocketdyne Nuclear Meltdown and rarely has anyone ever heard of it.  There is an active facebook group of survivors and an impending independent documentary; however, all Los Angelenos should know we are living amidst Nuclear Waste, from Northridge to Echo Park, to the OC; A Nuclear Meltdown larger than Three Mile Island, people.  Good times

To The Downfall of Evil!

Love The Ukulady

ps:  I am somewhat relieved I'm not living in Angelino Heights, overlooking Echo Park Lake anymore.  I used to jog around the lake everyday and considering gazing out at a 3 acre mud 'n' dead fish pit sounds like an angsty teen - depressing.  It's amazing that they are closing the lakepark for 3 whole years; that's freshman to junior year, practically a lifetime.  Where are the daily lake-folk going to play chess, playground-it-up, sell used knick-knacks?  Are they all in Elysian Park these days? 

The Ukulad and I read that 95 Echo Park turtles were transported to Macarthur Park.  If I was an Echo Park turtle, I'd be miffed; seems to be a lot more crackwhore-pee in Macarthur Park Lake than Echo Park.

pps: On a Happy UnicornFever note, Silverlake Coffee has tasty fruity tea, snack-punchcards and Filmmaker/Yogi, Jason, creator of the movie,  Hollywood, Je T'aime,  is busy writing new screenplays, inspired by the neighborhood.  It's uplifting to hear of independent LA artists moving forward, pushing dream-boulders up the giant mountains of adversity.

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