Subject: Department of Motor Vehicles

• Toll Road Opposition for the Lazy

  Just when you think the government's a complete and total failure, something happens to restore your faith. Why, just this afternoon I was perusing the Governor's website, filling out a webmail information request on Chuck DeVore's industrial hemp bill and bemoaning my lack of decent contacts up in Sac-Town, when something caught my eye. A quick visit to www.govmail.ca.gov brings up a helpful, simple page where you can list your contact details, your email, the issue with which you're concerne

  August 21, 2006

• Has the DMV sent you a letter saying your registration has been suspended?

  If so, contact the Tyra show, er, Oprah, um, I mean, Weekly intern Nardine Saad, who is pulling together a story on erroneous messages DMV drones mailed out to thousands of Californians. Here's where you can vent, early and often: nsaad@uci.edu

  January 26, 2007

• Letters

  July 29, 1999

• Mo' Monica

  October 19, 2000

• It's a Quick Read 7

  Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke out. . . . Sounds like a certain granny needs to put down the water bottle and grab a certain medicinal herb. While you can draw sanctions for traveling 20 mph the wrong direction

  March 5, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 19

  Orange County Register: Yvonne Pampellonne--who it must be noted, based on her DMV mugshot, "That's a man, baby"--is wanted by Huntington Beach Police for grand theft fake boobies. Okay, technically the 30-year-old is accused in a $20,000 arrest warrant of stealing another woman's identity to open a line of credit to pay for breast implants and cosmetic surgery. Dr. 90210 beware! . . . Anaheim coppers' surveillance of the poor may be illegal under federal law, acco

  March 24, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Clint McCall Gets His Man, Again

  March 12, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 31, 2008

• No More Tickling

  May 29, 2008

• Letters

  'Save the music, y'all'

  January 3, 2008

• Hell on Wheels

  August 3, 2000

• Hey, You!

  Cold Comfort

  May 31, 2007

• Illegally Park-ed

  February 8, 2007

• The Ticket Wizard

  June 8, 2006

• Brave New Filmmaker

  June 8, 2006

• Springtime Is the Right Time . . .

  April 6, 2006

• Toll Road Rage: Don't Trust the Register

  December 1, 2005

• Santa Ana

  October 20, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 4, 2005

• Next Stop: Immobility

  An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

  February 17, 2005

• Buckle Up for Terrorism

  May 27, 2004

• Crunched!

  May 20, 2004

• The Blame

  April 1, 2004

• On the Outside Looking In

  September 18, 2003

• Prison Blues

  June 13, 2002

• Braking Away

  May 23, 2002

• The Evil Among Us

  March 14, 2002

• Men In Rumpled Black

  March 14, 2002

• Letters

  June 21, 2001

• Thats Not Acting

  May 10, 2001

• We're So Angry

  February 17, 2000

• Mugged

  September 30, 1999

• Insider Art

  July 8, 1999

• This Year in Lost Letters

  January 7, 1999

• Paging Ken Burns! The Great War Between the North and South Water Districts

  Terry Teri Sforza blogs on the Register's OC Watchdog that the cities of Laguna Beach, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, as well as the El Toro, South Coast, Irvine Ranch, Moulton Niguel, Trabuco Canyon and Santa Margarita water districts, may secede from its northern partners in the water-importing Municipal Water District of Orange County to form its own South Orange County water authority. The confederacy claims the mega-district spends too much money, does not pay enough attention to

  July 23, 2009

• Cancer Wasn't Killing Jack Jessee Fast Enough, So Did His Wife and Stepson Hire a Hit Man?

  July 30, 2009

• Easy Writer Part 3: Learning to Crawl

  ​For anyone who is a newbie to motorcycle riding, take the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic RiderCourse. It's immeasurable, how beneficial the course is to new riders. The one I took at Saddleback College is an 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. Saturday-and-Sunday class that teaches the fundamentals of riding mechanics and safety. It's split into two parts per day: a classroom learning session, complete with a study booklet and snazzy educational videos, and a riding session in Saddleback's m

  August 3, 2009

• Easy Writer Part 4: A Necessary Evil

  ​As previously blogged, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course counts as the riding portion of the tests required to attain a Class-M California driver's license. A trip to the DMV is still required for the written portion, however. For me, this translated into three soul-sucking hours at the Laguna Hills DMV office in lines that make the ones at Disneyland seem like rides in themselves.That's lines--plural--because choosing to take one's written test and transfering the title of a bike to on

  August 5, 2009

• See Mork's Little Nanu Nanu and Sheriff Andy Taylor Getting Head From Seinfeld's Mom

  Robin Williams is not exactly the "World's Greatest Dad."​When the guy who played Mork from Ork strips down to his shaved nakedness and exposes his Little Nanu Nanu, or the guy who played Sheriff Andy Taylor and Benjamin Matlock gets head from the woman who played Seinfeld's mom, it can mean only one thing.You're not in TV Land anymore.

  August 28, 2009

• Keith May Chronicles the OC Sightings of the Suddenly Not-Very-Reclusive Sasquatch

  October 15, 2009

• Crime Time: Rapers! Robbers! Wife Killer! Bad Cops! And a Real Bozo!

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--a day late and many dollars short of paying off the creditors who won't stop calling! Top photos courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department A BOZO NO-NO: Here's the original suspect description Crime Time received for the Oct. 5 robbery of the US Bank inside the Ralphs supermarket at Adams and Brookhurst streets in Huntington Beach: white, in his 30s, weighing 200 pounds with a stocky build and wearing a blue shirt and jea

  October 21, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 22, 2009