Afternoon snackage

♦ The City Council is prepared to dare you to stop and run into Starbucks for a latte during rush hour. Members told their attorney to go ahead and draft an ordinance raising (from $65 to $140) the fine for parking or even stopping on main streets during rush hour restrictions. Compliments of Councilmember Wendy Greuel.
♦ Today on KPCC's afternoon "Patt Morrison" show, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo apparently referred a couple of times to Supreme Court justice Anton Scalia. So says a source not connected with Jerry Brown. The segment is not yet online, but will be here.
♦ Steve Westly kicked in another $5 million of his own money and now has invested $32.5 million from his eBay fortune in becoming governor of California. Make of that what you will.
♦ As of yesterday, Slate is "textcasting" Eric Umansky's Today's Papers feature for iTunes and late-model iPods out of the NPR studios in Culver City.
♦ Downtown's Roosevelt Building, at 7th and Flower streets, is going condo. Designed by Curlett and Beelman and opened as offices in 1926, adaptive reuse whizzes Killefer Flammang will convert it to 223 units and seventeen penthouses. They'll add a rooftop pool, and if the Exposition light-rail line ever gets built it will end right downstairs. (Via Curbed LA)
♦ The LAPD blog describes, in harrowing detail, how off-duty Sergeant Christopher Kunz saved the life of a driver trapped in a smashed, burning pickup truck on the Golden State Freeway about 4 am on May 5.
♦ Ethan Lindsey, assistant producer at "Marketplace" and contributor at LAist, has a new blog. He posts about his upcoming move to Berlin to begin a Fulbright scholarship on the geography of technological development.
♦ Audiences react to Poseidon: "Total concept rejection."
♦ Mark Glaser, who blogs for PBS at MediaShift, has posted a beginner's guide to blogs and blogging.
♦ Late add: JournalSpace blogs are back online.