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Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises
Build It & Hope They Come: The Register reports that Irvine has approved a 5-mile, $280 million street car/bus plan that will link the future Great Park to the Irvine Spectrum and a train station by 2012. City officials, untrustworthy in the past, claim that each day 5,000 people will abandon their cars to use the system. Larry Agran's political machine asserts that the daily cost for taxpayers will be $19,000. Any bets that number will significiantly rise when reality arrives? Gunfight at the
July 11, 2007Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward
What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes
July 18, 2007Sunday's Headlines & Surprises
'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducated cop mentality, check. Nincompoop, check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Of course, I'm kidding. Nothing was top secret. We all know about Martin's history during his previous board service.
July 22, 2007Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: iPhone Thumb Surgery?
Picking themselves up with your bootstraps: The lobbyists at the Orange County Tourism Council believe they are entitled yet again to a public handout. And, once again, they're going to get it without even a minute of public debate. The board of supervisors placed on its Tuesday consent calender a $150,000 corporate welfare payment to the large businesses--the Irvine Co., Disneyland, Marriott, Wyndham etc--which already prosper handsomely on OC tourism. Good for them. But why should local taxpa
August 12, 2007Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Bootlicker is back!
Tinker Bell Plot: Reporter Dave McKibben visits the turf war in Anaheim and discovers “The Disney-supported initiative, which supporters say has gathered enough signatures for the ballot, seeks to bar new housing in the resort district unless voters approve it. [But the] measure wouldn't require voter approval for Disney's commercial ventures.” That's evenhanded in a Tinker Bell sort of way. Disney folks want to block SunCal's 1,500-residential-unit plans across the street from their third
August 15, 2007Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Stale Marijuana?
Doesn't marijuana go stale? I dunno, but Jim Spray, 51, and Felix Cha (the person, not the tea), 22, want the government to return the pot police officers confiscated two years ago, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. Lawyers for both men told the Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal yesterday the narcotic was legally possessed for medicinal reasons. In separate cases, judges have previously tossed out their arrests but bureaucrats in the cities of Garden Grove and Huntington Beach refuse to
August 24, 2007Gordo and Harald Sitting in a Tree...
My colleague R. Scott Moxley loves to paint an aura of homoeroticism around Orange County Register columnist Gordon Dillow whenever the crank writes about men in uniform, but the Dillow-nator (as former Weekly managing editor Matt Coker loved to call him) also has a hard-on for Know Nothings. Yet nothing Dillow has ever published will ever compare to the spilled load that was today's piece on deposed Anaheim Union High School District trustee Harald Martin. Martin, you may recall, was appointed
September 2, 2007Crazy Register letter of the day!
"Regarding your story on Loraine Barr: Why feature her ['She's out of the closet at 88," Front Page, Sept. 2]? So what that she came out of the closet after so many years? Her story is not compelling..." [blah-blah-bluh-blah-bluh, then we cut to...] "I'm sure there are an abundance of fabulous stories coming out of Iraq. Why not feature one of those? And some of the most humble public figures you'll ever encounter are hockey players, yet their stories are never told..." Thanks, Jeffrey "Gordo
September 6, 2007Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Bootlicker on Tasers
Welcome to the Real IC: We should change the name of this place to Irony County. Latest reason? Peggy Lowe, a sleuth at the Register, reports today that during the very same meeting that the Orange County Board of Supervisors talked about slicing into generous pensions for sheriff’s deputies they spiked their own. Yes, the all-Republican board so often yelling about looming pension funding disasters increased the taxpayer contribution to their own retirement plans from six percent to eight pe
September 19, 2007Gordon Dillow Betrays Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Gordon Dillow is best known as the barely readable OC Register columnist and professional boot-licker who's never seen an officer-involved shooting or excessive use of taser on an unarmed suspect he didn't like. But did you know Dillow isn't just a tool of law enforcement--he's also a stooge of the international commie conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids with fluoridation? That's right, America: Gordon Dillow may seem like a patriotic citizen but when it comes to oral hygiene he's
September 25, 2007Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Darth Vader Chases Janet Nguyen
October 11, 2007Introducing the Reg-O-Meter©!
March 8, 2008The Reg-O-Meter© -- Week Ending March 15
March 15, 2008Register Bootlicker Returns for Special Easter Sermon!
Holding a gun with both hands sent sensations racing down his spine to a semi-firm point between his legs. Gordon Dillow wanted to moan—purr, really—like he did in the privacy of his home. But he’d been warned twice before about fondling weapons inside Orange County Register headquarters. There was also the problem of his co-workers: in his mind, a bunch of unapologetic liberals, women, homosexuals, Jews and "gooks."** He knew they didn’t sympathize with the depths of his love for men in
March 23, 2008What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XV
On Friday night, Dave Segal watched London duo, Black Ghosts, put on one of the better hipster-dance live shows he's seen in a while. Saying, "It was kind of like a combination of Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers, full of aggressive beats, filthy synth textures and sing-along tunes." Saturday found our own Luke Y. Thompson at the toy store shopping for Iron Man action figures to add to his collection. He found himself a Robert Downey Jr. action figure at the Toys R Us in Irvine. Too bad it loo
March 24, 2008The Reg-O-Meter©—Week Ending April 5
SUNDAY, MARCH 30 •Gordon Dillow totally calls us out in his column. The graph in question, with translations: “And then there were the blog comments from a certain Orange County ‘alternative’ weekly newspaper . . .” [Translation: OC Weekly, though if I have to actually say/write their name, I’ll burst into flames/lose bowel control/grow hair.] “. . .whose writers routinely claim that any columns I write about guns—or cops or the military or whatever—are rife with what they
April 5, 2008Bootlicker Sees Visions in Jail Culture Report
Clutching a package of velvet lace to his chest, Bootlicker elbowed by an elderly lady to get first in the checkout line at Michaels arts and crafts shop. Time was of the essence. Thirty minutes earlier, the Orange County District Attorney’s office had released its “Investigative Report” on the beating death of an inmate in November 2006. Bootlicker grabbed the first copy, raced to his pickup truck and, as if God himself granted a special wish, watched as the report fell open to pages 25-2
April 12, 2008OC Register Laying off Five Percent of Workforce
It's never fun being right about this kind of thing, but apparently the OC Register is laying off 80 to 90 employees, according to a post today on the newspaper's website. Here's about half of the post (it's really short): "... [Publisher Terry] Horne cited Orange County’s sluggish economy, especially in real estate, as affecting the company’s revenues from local retail, automotive and classified advertising for jobs. The company provided no financial details about the decline in adverti
April 28, 2008Bootlicker Helps OC's Most Persecuted Minority Fight Racism
I'm not even going to try mimic Moxley's harlequin prose whenever he bothers with Orange County Register columnist Gordon Dillow, so here's the straight dope: Today, Bootlicker writes about Joe Labarrere of Brea, who visited Fresca's in the city and was offended that the mildest hot sauce was labeled "gringo." Labarrere was so perturbed that he actually lodged a complaint with the Orange County Human Relations Commission. The group—God bless their PC hearts—investigated the matter rather tha
May 7, 2008Rekindling Faith
February 25, 1999Read and Learn, Pardner
January 23, 2003Burying the Dead
July 10, 2003Letters
July 17, 2003OC Register to Lay Off 110, Including 30 in Newsroom
*Bumped to the top, with new info as it comes on the bottom... The following letter from Register publisher Terry Horne landed in my junk folder this morning, right about the time it apparently reached LAObserved. Not a whole lot to add to this, except our wishes that all this self-destructive madness will stop. Orange County Register Communications announces a reduction in workforce October 29, 2008 - The following note is confidential and written for associates only, per Register President
October 31, 2008This Week in the OC Weekly
In "The Reformer" Matt Coker educates us about longtime OC GOP legislator Ross Johnson finding a new life as a campaign-finance watchdog in Sacramento. R. Scott Moxley explains the reason behind Mike Carona's smile in "The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled". And Matt Coker dictates departing OC Register columnist, Gordon Dillow's final screed in "Dillow Unbound".
November 14, 2008[This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Five-Napkin Pho at Pho Vie II
October 16, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Times are Tight
February 26, 2009The Weekly Won't Have Gordon Dillow to Kick Around Anymore
November 13, 2008OC Register Refuses to Close Down Its Own Secret Sex Club
April 24, 2008OC's Scariest People
Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)
October 25, 2007A Clockwork Orange
June 15, 2000Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 22 - Nov. 28
November 30, 2006Silly Slappy!
January 27, 2005Eight Days
October 28, 2004Gordon Dillow Is A Hack
January 22, 2004What a Rush!
November 6, 2003Death Watch
October 16, 2003Letters
July 24, 2003Diary of a Mad County
June 26, 2003Mightier Than the Sword
October 10, 2002Diary of a Mad County
August 15, 2002Dillow Interruptus
November 8, 2001So Long, OCN
September 27, 2001Beating on the Gooks Not All Bad
July 19, 2001If I Were Gordon Dillow
July 19, 2001Club of a Thousand Dances
May 10, 2001Dillow's 'Cowboy Code'
April 27, 2000Superpower Like Us
July 8, 1999Orange County's Scariest People!
November 5, 1998Sunday's Headlines & Surprises
“Luckiest Day of the Century!”: Jumped out of bed this morning, rushed to the online Vegas papers and expected to read all about our nation's newest millionaires who cashed in on 7-7-07. There was not one big winner story in either local daily. Instead, I read about likely casinos profits from the date, how casino giant Steve Wynn frets about cheating dealers, a rush of “lucky” weddings and the tale of Al from Monrovia who was up a lousy $1,800 early in the evening. Transforming the B
July 8, 2007
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