Orange County Register: Mickadeit: He peels off a classic on the squabble between Donna Crean's kids over her fate. . . . Did you feel the window-rattling jolt about 9:15 last night? I did. I figured it was a small earthquake, although it was very quick, like a sonic boom. It violently shook my back patio sliding glass window for about half a second. Hundreds of people all across Orange County experienced this also–and they informed “Science Dude” Gary Robbins, who checked and ruled out an earthquake, a weather event, a passing asteroid and a space shuttle landing. Camp Pendleton was firing off explosives Tuesday, but if felt at all it would have been strongest in the very southern part of the county, and a base official who lives in San Clemente told Robbins he didn't feel anything. Weird. Again, for the second straight day, it must be asked: What did you gays do to piss off God now? . . . Perhaps the answer is their being at the center of a cop's discrimination lawsuit against Newport Beach PD, which did not go well for the officer Tuesday. . . . Or the whole Prop. 8 thing. . . . Or this.
Los Angeles Times: With the new housing industry reeling, thieves have taken to breaking into abandoned developments and ripping out copper and other materials they can re-sell. Among the companies whose ghost towns are being victimized is Miami-based developer Lennar Corp., not at Irvine's Great Park but the “Platinum Triangle” near Anaheim Stadium, and Irvine-based SunCal Cos., which has stalled projects in Oakland, Sacramento and San Clemente. . . . . STOP THE PRESSES! A mysterious middle-aged woman has scammed two Newport Beach clinics out of Botox treatments. . . . DON'T FIRE UP THOSE PRESSES YET! “Actress” Tawny Kitaen, who probably knows her way around a Botox needle (hmmm…), has listed her Newport Beach home at $3.45 million.

OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.