Electricity went out, quite dramatically, while I was watching the final episode of Life on Mars last night and stayed off for longer than what folks in this comfortable neighborhood surely must be used to. Even if I could continue on a laptop, there was no getting the disc out of the player. So I took a walk to see how far the darkness went, but turned back when I didn’t see a single family outside, and thought maybe I might be gunned down by one of these fucking McCain supporters with their AK aimed at the door.
Edison’s website didn’t acknowledge the outage for at least an hour—


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