To some, the very fact that LA has a river comes as a surprise – and, to be fair, the section that runs beneath the Sixth Street Bridge looks less like a river than a giant storm drain.
Anxiety over the potential mindlessness of note-taking took on particular urgency during the digital annotation session, at which panelists debated whether the Internet and social media had ushered in a golden age of notes or doomed us to watch all our fleeting thoughts — if not our brains themselves — sucked down a giant digital drain, beyond the reach of future historians.
Huizar's proposal dovetails with the city's $1-billion 1-billion push, with the Army Corps of Engineers, to refashion an 11-mile stretch of the river channel north of downtown from a giant concrete drain into a pushstrian-, recreation- and bike-friendly preserve.
Huizar's proposal dovetails with the city's $1-billion 1-billion push, with the Corps of Engineers, to refashion an 11-mile stretch of the river channel north of downtown from a giant concrete drain into a pushstrian, recreation and bike-friendly preserve.
Another variation tells of the brothers falling for Avona, a girl from Wiltshire, who instructs the giants to drain a lake which stretches from Rownham Hill to Bradford-on-Avon (i.e. the Avon valley).
That much he managed, becoming the latest emotionally drained giant slayer to resume prior stature in a hurry.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, recently warned that London is "becoming a giant suction machine, draining the life out of the rest of the country".
Vince Cable was right in calling London "a giant suction machine draining the life out of the rest of the country".
Mr Johnson criticised Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable - a London MP - who warned recently that the capital was "becoming a giant suction machine draining the life out of the rest of the country".
