Subject: Worklife

• No Boundaries

  Immigrant Lives in ‘The OC’ and Beyond

  December 11, 2008

• SXSW: OC Weekly Exclusive-Girl Talk Not Sure of Location of Orange County

  Managed to slip into the Diesel jeans party last night just in time for Girl Talk's set. King of the mashup, Girl Talk (real name Gregg Gillis) sets up his laptop, invites onstage as much of the crowd as can fit and hits the "enter" key. The rest of his performance consists of tweaking his samples, whipping his head around, and enduring the overly friendly fans who just wanna get his white T-shirt off. The audience, plied with free vodka drinks, seemed evenly divided between those who wished to

  March 17, 2007

• Nuts Come Out for Nguyen, Take Daucher Along for Ride

  Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, Teamsters Local Something or Other--We've been told state senate staffers are here, giving up vacation time to walk for Lou Correa, Democrat for OC's 34th state Senate District. People here are sitting in chairs, too (union thing?), looking at the TeeVee because the TeeVee, at least, has good news from the national front: here at home, Lou's losing big-time to Republican Lynne Daucher. Some people predicted Lou would take the seat. But then, all t

  November 7, 2006

• W's Finest Hour

  What did our one and only president, George W. Bush, tell the German weekly Bild am Sonntag was his "best moment of all" since he took office? For the answer, click here. Strange? Yes. Childish? You bet. Though to be fair to W, if you were president and the buck stopped with you for things like this, because you unnecessarily invaded another country, you might not associate your day job with the phrase "best moment" either.

  May 8, 2006

• Suck on it, USC!

  My alma mater (at least for the MA) shocked USC, 13-9, a great joy for all of us who despise the lords of Orange County. Click over to OC Blog, where you can find a comprehensive list of these terrible Trojans (my boss and courageous Catholic lawyer John Manly excepted). Also remember that South Coast Plaza hosts a Trojans memorabilia store. Us UCLA grads? We get to revel in the upset of the millenium.

  December 2, 2006

• Eggleston to LA Times: Sorry for Lying 'Bout You

  A couple of weeks ago, this infernal blog reported on G. Wayne Eggleston, the San Clemente councilmember who memorably told Los Angeles Times reporter Garrett Therolf, "I wouldn't want to stop in Stanton, much less patrol it," claimed he was misquoted and then told OCBlog readers to "not co-operate with LA Times readers as they are not trustworthy." We forgave the double-negative, but not the charge, especially after Therolf stood by his notes. Now Therolf tells us Eggleston has dropped the mis

  January 11, 2007

• Disgusting Big Toe Watch 2006

  The avalanche of reader response to a certain Disgusting Big Toe is pouring down--and by "avalanche," we mean "one letter to the editor, a half dozen comments in the break room, a snicker or two with the receptionist, a feedback comment or three on this very website and two, count 'em, two offers of assistance." In the order they were received (or will continue to be received), Clockwork will try any remedies publicly and check back on their progress from time to time. The first comes fro

  July 1, 2006

• Ka-ching for Craigslist

  Starting November, Orange County job postings on Craigslist.org will cease to be freebies. But instead of crying havoc and releasing the hounds, CL frequenters are embracing the $25 posting fee. Huh? Well, CL management and folks on both sides of the job market believe that charging something in that section will make it more legit. So people like snkh820 and CHARGETHE25ALREADY who are sick of sifting through bullcrap ads with titles like "DREAM JOB OF A LIFETIME" will have something to grin a

  October 2, 2007

• Fire Update: Almost out of the woods?

  The Orange County Fire Authority reports that the Santiago blaze is now 75 percent contained. Though firefighters are hoping to kill the beast by Friday (before the nasty Santa Ana winds whip it up over the weekend), the OCFA website lists Sunday as D-Day for full containment. Approximately 28,445 acres have been burned thus far. The fire had some 2,000 firefighters on the job at its peak, but an estimated 1,800 are out there now, Battalion Chief Kris Concepcion told the Weekly over the phone

  October 30, 2007

• Sheriff Mikey, Back on the Beat

  Sheriff Mike Carona's two-month-long, taxpayer-supported leave of absence came to an end today--apparently, he and his Little Sheriff (and no, we don't mean puppet-in-charge Jo Ann Galisky, who subbed while Mikey-Mike was off supposedly preparing for his June trial) are back on the job. Kinda sorta--word is that he's working, but he's just not in the office. Shit howdy! That means Mike has time to take a loving gaze up at the windows of OC Weekly Worldwide Headquarters, where we've posted aweso

  January 7, 2008

• Quizzes To Kill Time

  They're kind of cheesy, but some of the questions in Quizland.com's Rock Trivia and Yetanotherdot.com's '80s Lyrics Quiz are actually rather stumpifying. Such as: What act holds the record for most #2 records without ever hitting #1? Ummm.... The Carpenters? Nope. and what "don't feel like it should"? Oh right, "loooove" (ok, that was an easy one but a lot of these I had no idea) See if your musical knowledge is as sharp as you think it is: '80s Lyric Quiz Rock Trivia Bonus: These are a go

  March 11, 2008

• William Lobdell--Gone :-(

  As noted below by Scott, William Lobdell has left the Los Angeles Times. And, as Scott noted, Lobdell was no ordinary reporter--the man was a multiple-award-winning titan, one of the best religion reporters ever to grace American newspapers, and definitely the best in covering the Gospel Swamp that is Orange County. He left the religion beat last year, sickened by the county's many Pharisees. Now, Orange County has no full-time reporter covering religion at the Times or the Orange County Registe

  July 15, 2008

• SYNGEd

  June 14, 2001

• The Clip Your Church Doesn't Want You to Watch

  Movies get trailers, so why not books? The latest edition of Laguna Beach author Tim Leedom's The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read, which the Weekly previewed here, is now being pimped via video. Leedom has advantage over most other authors when it comes to this kind of promotion. His day job is at Intellevision, a Laguna Beach company that does film and TV production work.

  October 27, 2008

• Read All About It!

  This morning I went to my local LA Times news stand to put in a couple of quarters and obtain a 'lil slice of history for my scrap book. To my surprise, I discovered that I wasn't the only person in Long Beach with this brilliant plan. There were no papers left! So I went to a stand up the street only to find the same story. Is Barack Obama's win single-handedly saving the print news industry? I truly hope so. But I seriously doubt it. So I've decided to "borrow" the hard copy that is mailed to

  November 5, 2008

• Veggie Grill Open! Well, On Friday.

  I reported on this before, but this is the week that Veggie Grill's Irvine Spectrum location is opening. More specifically, this Friday, November 21st. They had a preview night dinner that I couldn't attend (darned pesky day job!), but our buddy DanGarion of Eat in OC did! To see what he saw and ATE for free, click HERE.

  November 19, 2008

• Tone Def

  October 9, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] A Short History of Comics In Mexico

  August 7, 2008

• Santa Ana School Employees Steaming at Sneaky District Turning Full-Time Jobs Into Part-Time Ones

  July 3, 2008

• The Great 
Green Orange

  June 12, 2008

• Love Them Madly

  June 5, 2008

• Pick Up Sticks

  April 10, 2008

• Stand-Up Guy

  March 27, 2008

• Re-drawing the Line

  January 10, 2008

• Here it Go!

  December 6, 2007

• Work it

  December 6, 2007

• Walk Until They Don't Drop

  September 20, 2007

• !Viva el Trabajador!

  August 4, 2005

• They Don't Know Sith

  June 2, 2005

• Only Too Clever by Half

  January 13, 2005

• Sock It . . . To Me!?!

  January 6, 2005

• Hell is Forever

  March 25, 2004

• Ready for the Country

  January 22, 2004

• The Barkeeps Keeper

  December 11, 2003

• Office Space

  April 24, 2003

• No Justice, No Teach

  October 31, 2002

• Survey Says: Youre Screwed!

  March 21, 2002

• Diary of a Day Laborer

  August 23, 2001

• Whose Line is it Anyway?

  October 19, 2000

• Everything I needed to learn about longevity . . . I learned playing the game of Life

  January 27, 2000

• Work-at-Home Scams Draw FBI Attention

  Hot on the heels of the Welcome to the Poorhouse post that included shady work-at-home offers in the email inbox, the FBI posted a story today warning of the same. (Note to self: when Clockwork and the G-Men are in sync, time to weatherproof against frogs falling from the sky.)The FBI expands its warning beyond emails to include "seductive work-at-home opportunities" hyped in newspaper classified ads and fliers tacked to telephone poles. These promise earnings of hundreds or thousands of dollars

  April 17, 2009

• Dirt Nasty

  July 9, 2009

• Goodbye, Uncle Teddy: Politicos Strip Out of Power Suits

  At a brief press conference today, Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang, Fountain Valley Mayor Guy Corrozzo and other community leaders will talk about stripping out of their suits. No, this is not to honor randy Ted Kennedy. It's the official launch of the second annual Men's Wearhouse National Suit Drive, which continues through Sept. 30. For years, Fountain Valley-based nonprofit Working Wardrobes has collected ladies business attire and donated it to women in need of sharp outfits as

  September 1, 2009

• Hump Day Blues Relief

  It's Wednesday, aka Hump Day, and I'm not allowed to post any videos of people humping (although I suspect the hits would go through the roof if I did), so here's a little ditty to help get us all through this long work week. Seriously folks, if you listen closely, it almost sounds like he's saying "the Hump Day dance."

  November 18, 2009