Virginia Postrel

@vpostrel

West L.A.

Born January 14

Joined January 2009

Virginia Postrel
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Afshine Emrani MD FACC
@afshineemrani
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1/ I'm a cardiologist. I've practiced for twenty-five years, through a lot of "breakthroughs" that turned out to be press releases. So understand the weight of what I'm about to say: I have never seen a single week in medicine like the one we just lived through. In the span of a
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Cora Harrington
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I finished this yesterday, and enjoyed learning about how silk design was the catalyst for fashionable change during the Tang Dynasty. I also always check the notes and bibliography after reading books like this and learned a few interesting things:
Virginia Postrel
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The entire east side of the 1000 block in @WestwoodVillage will soon be empty. Do we dare to hope for a big housing development?
Virginia Postrel
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Aug 21
Please @CocaCola redesign your Cherry Diet Coke labels so they don’t look like regular Diet Coke when sold out of refrigerator cases.
Virginia Postrel
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Aug 21
If we're going to privatize the sidewalks, we should at least expect the people occupying to provide public benefits like tacos.
Conor Friedersdorf
@conor64
Aug 21
On one hand, it's bizarre that Karen Bass likens taco vendors to homeless encampments. On the other hand, I guess that means they're safe and will continue operating everywhere and maybe even increase while she is in office.