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Subject: Fred Smoller

  • Film Flam

    Your favorite Co-ed Dorm Wall Clock was shocked--SHOCKED!!!--to read our fresh-pressed copy of the Monday edition of the Chapman University Panther student newspaper (where, little known factoid, we twice toiled as a fill-in faculty advisor, until a certain former LA "By God" Times slacker slid in and put a spell under head honchoess Sue Paterno. Damn you, Jerry Hicks, damn your shapely thighs!) It was this headline that had our just-chewed Special K flying across the breakfast nook: "Racy Stud

    April 26, 2006
  • Rocco Recall Documentary Hits the Internets

    Chapman University political science professor Fred Smoller has been fascinated by the spectacular rise to power of Steve Rocco, the wacky Orange Unified School District trustee, ever since Rocco won his election in November 2004, and particularly after parents who voted for Rocco because the ballot described him as a "teacher" and his opponent, Phil Martinez, as a park ranger, realized they'd just elected a nutbar and tried (unsuccessfully) to recall him. Unbeknownst to voters--and the nationa

    January 16, 2008
  • Grand Theft Ketchup

    Last weekend, The Orange County Register reports, Steve Rocco was busted for stealing a bottle of ketchup from a cafeteria at Chapman University. He was observed taking the bottle by a security guard who alerted police, who cited Rocco for misdemeanor theft, for which he will have to pay a $250 fine if convicted by the justice system, a system that, as Rocco has personally revealed and first reported here, is secretly controlled by the Partnership, a shadowy cabal Rocco first came across back in

    September 30, 2008
  • Ralph Crammed In

    November 2, 2000
  • The Great Ketchup Caper Trial, Day One

    The Orange County Superior Courthouse's courtroom C-47 had a standing room only crowd this morning, as the much anticipated case of the People versus Steve Rocco finally went before a judge. Rocco, in case you don't already know, is the former Orange Unified School district trustee who was arrested last September for allegedly stealing a bottle of ketchup from a Chapman University cafeteria. After refusing to plead guilty, Rocco now faces trial for petty theft of a condiment valued, according to

    March 18, 2009
  • The Bizarre Case of the People vs. ex-Orange School District Trustee Steve Rocco

    April 2, 2009
  • Another Conspiratorial Twist In the Seemingly Never-Ending Story of Steve Rocco

    April 23, 2009
  • The Big Setup

    April 20, 2006
  • Ryan's Hope

    March 30, 2006
  • University of Diversity

    December 20, 2001
  • Let Jerry Speak!

    September 17, 1998
  • Rocco Sentenced in College Ketchup Heist

    Rocco reads.The Partnership scored yet another victory today when Judge Jacki Brown of the Quentin Tarantino Justice Center sentenced former Orange school trustee Steve Rocco to two years of probation for his September 2008 theft of a non-refrigerated, half-empty bottle of ketchup at a Chapman University cafeteria. The spectacular arrest was Rocco's second run-in with the Partnership--the cabal made up of Albertsons, Kodak Corp. and Smokecraft Sausage that secretly controls Orange County governm

    May 26, 2009
  • This Week In OC Republican-On-Republican Homo Action

    Larry CraigThe game of hot potato being played by California republicans in response to the  state's budget crisis and recently defeated ballot measures is turning into quite a spectator sport. Actually, "hot potato" isn't quite right. More like... "smear the queer"? Or... "12-year-olds calling each other names"?As I posted yesterday, south-county professional gadfly Jim Lacy nailed State Assemblywoman Diane Harkey in the latest issue of the Dana Point Times for flip-flopping on her special

    May 28, 2009