When my first car was totaled when I foolishly lent it to my college roommate when two girls he had invited over to “study” needed a lift back to campus. I need a replacement set of wheels badly. A big bodybuilder friend of his claimed to have a “steal” for me, a low-mileage, late-model sedan, … Read more
As an elementary school kid, I looked forward to February more than many other kids did. I wasn’t a huge fan of school during those earlier years, what with not being challenged by the watered-down curriculum my deportment and my draconian principal relegated me to. as well as regularly getting beaten up and ridiculed for … Read more
I was never invited by anyone to storm the Capital, certainly not on January 6, 2021. But slightly more than a decade before that, I was forcefully requested by a superior to “napalm Oldsmar”. Oldsmar, Florida is the Tampa suburb that at the time housed the Nielsen Company. I worked directly for FX, and tangentially … Read more
Joe Biden, or as my globe-trotting current roomie never fails to remind me, “the president YOU elected”, gets a chance to reunite with the Congress he spoke before roughly 11 months ago tonight when he delivers his second State of the Union address. Unlike last year, where his party had full control of both the … Read more
I admit I’m a creature of habit when it comes to certain consumption patterns, and my occasional thirst for local Los Angeles news has been typically quenched with a dose of KCBS-TV’s newscasts, typically middays following THE PRICE IS RIGHT, which I’ve invariably had on for comfort food and background noise even when I worked … Read more
No less a genius than Albert Einstein once defined insanity as this graphic denotes. And for the first two days of the 118th U.S. Congress, we have seen exactly that process play out, to an increasingly eye-rolling but, sadly, none too surprised nation. Although the actual Groundhog Day is next month, yesterday sure seemed like … Read more
As 2022 winds down, the year in review and best of lists will predominate as the world (well, except me) gets ready for a two-week vacation. What will inevitably come up will be what we became enamored with and have already forgotten, as well as what has recently emerged that is now on the upswing … Read more
So Los Angeles now has its first female mayor in its history, and only its second African-American leader. The first returned the Olympic Games to the city and had the international terminal at LAX named after him, The second took office Sunday afternoon and will immediately be presiding over a series of seemingly interminable construction … Read more