Ah, Huntington Beach with its smelly smokestacks, oily bathtub-ring-like shoreline and human waste bobbing in the ocean. What's not to love? Your congressman, the esteemed Dana Rohrabacher (R-Abramoff), certainly showed he's got your back, Surf City-zens, as he voted just last night to let those poor, starving, raggamuffin oil companies drill for natural gas off the California coastline. Unfortunately for you hicks, a higher slice of the rest of the House--including scores of members of Dana's o
So I got back from a brief vacation last week with two episodes of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" saved on my DVR.
I knew I had to sit through the darned things to review the show, but I also knew I didn't really have to watch them to understand how ridiculously stupid and pointless the thing was going to be.
Yes, call it a hunch, but I could somehow sense that watching a show about five women with more money than they deserve and so much plastic surgery that they resemble Rob Schne
Does your proofreader have a sense of humor? Ours does. Here's something from the very awesome Jack Grimshaw:
There’s always a bright spot - you just gotta look hard enough.
Amid real estate gloom and doom – sub-prime-mortgage backlash, new and used home inventories stacked deeper than the abysmal all-you-can-eat buffet at Circus Circus, rocketing monthly payments, huge-and-growing numbers of defaults – there’s a truly encouraging light in the darkness from your good ol’ Irvine Compa
No, silly, Freedom Communications's CEO Scott Flanders isn't posing in the venerated skin mag -- we hope. But he is being considered to run it, according to The Wall Street Journal, via the Register's own business blog (wonder if Reg real estate guru Jon Lasner got permission from the top to link to the story or not):Playboy
Enterprises Inc. is expected to offer Scott Flanders, president and
chief executive of Freedom Communications Inc., its vacant CEO post as
early as this week, according to p
I used to be friends (metaphorically speaking, at least) with the Dandy Warhols, a long time ago.OK, it wasn't that long ago. But I haven't really taken to their latest album, Earth to the Dandy Warhols... yet. (It looks like I'm not alone there.) Regardless, I'm still totally stoked to be seeing Courtney Taylor-Taylor and the gang tonight at the Glass House in Pomona, as they're in my "one of my favorite bands that I haven't actually seen live" category, or, at least, they were until today (uh,
Yeah, we weren't able to send a photog to this one. iPhone photos!Friday Night: The Dandy Warhols, The Meek at the Glass House in Pomona; June 5, 2009.Better than: Checking out the second night of all-ages dance night Club Matinee going on simultaneously at the nearby Fox Theater in Pomona, although anyone with a Glass House wristband got in for free.Number of on-stage bathroom breaks: Only one. More on that later.Friday was a good night to be in Pomona if you're a Dandy Warhols fan. They played
