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ICYMI: The L.A. Times Is Sorry They Said So Many Bad Things About The Doors
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- The L.A. Times reviews all the times they were wrong about The Doors and it's pretty fun[ny]. (Sample: "Perhaps Morrison should give up performing, which seems to be an effort for him, and concentrate on reciting and writing poetry," Donna Chick wrote in The Times in 1968).
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- Here is a very cool aerial tour of the L.A. Aqueduct from 2013, though we would imagine there is substantially more water flowing through it these days:
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