Most of the things she has said seem to match the usual LA crazy

Seriously? I am glad I don't get out much--the worst I was handling was friends of friends (SOs, worse yet, so one has to nod nicely..) telling me that broccoli would cure my migraines.

Thanks for those recommendations, Burrell! I will check those places out--they look like they might be on my way home from work.

Shame the Slauson/Sepulveda exit (at least northbound) has disappeared from the 405. Do you reckon it'd be easier to get off early or late? The exit signs split the difference and do both.

For the mall I usually get off at Jefferson, then turn on Slauson. Or you can take the 405 to the 90E, which basically ends at Slauson and dumps you right by the mall.

In LA or other mild climates I'd think you could survive quite a long while like shelter if it was during a period free of rain (which in LA is lots of the time). Assuming lack of shelter did not get you eaten by Zombies. I knew one guy who saved most of his salary and slept on Redondo beach during the spring and summer and much of the fall in LA during the 80s. He rented during the winter. He must have some alternative to Beach when during his beach season. From what I gather, much of the time the nights were warm, and he did not even wrap the blanket around him. (There were showers at the beach he could use - and he bicycled to work and kept his clothes at work). At any rate from what you say the "Talking Dead" folks would have defined the blanket he lay down on as "shelter" - but that is really stretching things.

The guy ultimately used his savings to start a liquor store in Redondo Beach which was fairly successful.

I think it's shelter to avoid the zombies! You can live unsheltered for quite a while.

It must be shelter from zombies, because you can live outside without shelter in Atlanta for about 345 days a year. Not comfortably, mind you, but the weather won't kill you.

The food and water thing is highly variable depending on climate and activity.

For Jilli: In looking up the prices on my edition of Mary Poppins, I found one [link] signed to "Jilian." There but for an L and a time machine....

And, Jilli? An IO9er told me to tell you that you look beautiful (I figured it was okay to use that photo to show the RDJ cosplay since you'd made it a tumblr post--hope that wasn't an error in judgement--I'm sure you have more readers than that segment of io9, though).

Aww, tell them thank you for me!

Also, I buy a lot of tea from David's Tea.

For Jilli: In looking up the prices on my edition of Mary Poppins, I found one [link] signed to "Jilian." There but for an L and a time machine....

Ooooh. Hello yet another thing to covet.

We watched 'return to oz' because of all the talk. I was warned, but how could that be a Disney movie?

I was warned, but how could that be a Disney movie?

They were rather adrift in the seventies, and like a lot of studios were willing to let adventurous young creative types come in and make interesting movies. The Disney brand was at an all time low at that period - barely even a studio.

Hard to believe now, but they were down to live action Love Bug sequels and The Great Mouse Detective.

I remember LOVING Return to Oz and also being utterly terrified by it. That room full of heads? It's been at least 20 years and that image it still utterly vivid. Never did read the Oz books so I fear the Ozma costume might have missed me also in spite of my fearsome literacy.

That room full of heads?

It's super freaky! And the Wheelers! And Dorothy threatened with electrosock therapy!