Human waste is a part of life; we all generate it, we all need to dispose of it. Some of us abide by the clever rhyming adage "if it's yellow, mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" but with the state's increasingly perilous water levels on most minds, it's increasingly harder to even just take a seat on the old porcelain throne without worrying about the environment. Enter the EcoJohn line of toilets, all of......

A view of the Valley from Sherman Oaks | Photo by Dan Wuh via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr So apparently in Kansas there's this lady who decided to sit on the toilet for two years -- this story is so bizarre I can hardly fathom it. How's this for shocking: remember that Downtown housing boom that was luring so many buyers to all those cool new lofts? Well, it's not so......

This week Mayor Tony asked Los Angelenos to take it easy with the long-ass showers due to the long-ass drought that we're in the midst of. But when LAist was in college in Santa Barbara in the late '80s there was a drought up there that we remember quite clearly. Because of a year-long drought we were told not to wash our cars, water our lawns, and we were very sensitive about drippy sinks.......

Dear LAist, One of my friends is dating a football player. The season is over and after he gets back from Hawaii he will probably spend a lot of time at our condo. The big problem is he's a BIG guy. Like, huge. There's no way he can be comfortable using our toilet. Is there a seat or a toilet accessory that we can get for him so he might invite some more of......