Watch the skies. For on St. Joseph's Day, March 19, the swallows were to return to Mission San Juan Capistrano. What? Not yet? Well, let's hope they have the common courtesy to make an appearance at tomorow's Swallows Day Parade in SJC.
Yes, that's right, everyone, their grandparents and their kids will scurry down in hopes of glimpsing the as-yet absent birdies return to their seasonal digs. Be the first on your block to catch the bird flu! But even if the swallows don't show, we've still got
It was all so beautiful: Register reporter on his way out sticks his finger up his nose in the face of The Man and is caught on camera, then noticed by LA Observed and broadcast throughout the blogosphere, his message forever preserved in cyberspace...
Too bad it's NOT TRUE. CP Smith was apparently accidentally caught in the momentous nose picking moment, according to OC Register editor Ken Brusic. It wasn't a statement. 'Twas just, well, bad manners.
From LA Observed: Gustavo's Ask A Mexican column is in this year, while Miss Manners is out - according to Hank Stuever at the Washington Post.
Also on The List:
OUT: Pinkberry; IN: Vita Coco
OUT: Sex; IN: Naps
OUT: Meerkats; IN: Squirrels
OUT: "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!"; IN: “Yo Gabba Gabba!”
“Safety and Courtesy Tips for the Beer Can Regatta”
So let it be written; so let it be done. Thursday Night's Beer Can Regattas in Newport Harbor may never be the same. A redraft of the entry form would shamelessly exclude the drunken and the ignorant. The Harbor Patrol and the Harbor Commission are hammering out a new-fangled version of Newport Harbor's Rules of the, er, Road. From The Log:
The proposed draft reminds entrants that Rules of the Road must be followed -- and that racers must
Fridays are always tough in Orange County's Central Courthouse at Santa Ana. That's when the majority of convicted defendants face sentencing. Of course, watching killers, rapists and robbers begin to pay for their crimes isn't tough. It's seeing the indescribable pain of victims and their families who attend the hearings.
Today, jail deputies brought Marvin V. Smith to court a final time. Last December 17, a jury convicted Smith—a wealthy businessman from Cypress—for brutally killing his w
Sending over a giant box filled with Coke bottles, the Coca-Cola giants' latest little project includes bringing together Eastern graphic designers from China (I can only assume Coke is going to be a huge sponsor for the ‘08 Olympics), and West-side-of-the hemisphere musicians— mostly DJs like Kaskade and Benny Benassi.
The point? “To interpret the ideas and passions that connect us— by sharing and expressing one of eight themes: Happiness, Active Optimism, Human Collaboration, Peace
