LA’s Longest Running Joke

We’re back at the Music Center, tonight again at the Mark Taper Forum, not the Ahmanson, for “Fake It Until You Make It.”

Across the street, behind the sculpture and flagpoles, is this:

That’s the Department of Water & Power building and no matter how short of energy we might be from time to time, no matter the brownouts when it’s 115° and fifteen million people are running their air conditioners at Warp Factor 11, these empty office are always lit up like a Christmas tree.

And no matter how many years long the drought is, or how dead our lawns are because of the rationing, those fountains are going 24/7/365.

Welcome to LA!