April 2010
1 post
LA Budget Crisis - a search story →
July 2009
8 posts
LAX should be an exclusive club. They already have velvet ropes. Now your name...
– Dorothy Parker
Sam Nazarian Named to Airport Commission →
Politico reduces the world to Rahm Emanuel and to the people who want to be Rahm...
– Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair, August 2009
Now, Sarah's Folly by Maureen Dowd →
Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and...
– Sarah Palin, explaining that staying is the quitter’s way out, so instead she is going to quit
June 2009
13 posts
The Soulvine: Betty Pleasant, The Wave
Much to the delight of some high-powered onlookers, Lakers great Kobe Bryant confronted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the start of last week’s jam-packed Lakers victory parade and added a whole new dimension to the day’s festivities. According to mesmerized eyewitness accounts, this is what happened: The City Council members were told to arrive at the parade staging area at 10 a.m. last Wednesday...
In all fairness to his aides, “I’m getting some Argentinian...
– Best comment ever
from Gawker
Was the crowd at the Laker Rally booing Mayor Villaraigosa, or shouting...
– @franklinavenue on Twitter
Zine and Nuch at the LA Pride Parade
If your Councilman Jack were out on a limb, would you help your Councilman Jack...
– Robert Benchley
Villaraigosa finds yet another way to “get on” the local news.
– Dorothy Parker (no relation)
LA Times: Mayor is dating local newscaster →
May 2009
19 posts
Even the heated 2005 mayoral runoff between then mayor James Hahn and Antonio...
– Joel Stein on California voter turnout, Time magazine - June 8, 2009
"State of Insanity", by Joel Stein, TIME, June 8,... →
100 Great Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
The place is like a museum. It’s very beautiful and very cold, and...
– Ferris Bueller
Cameron's house is for sale!!! →
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
– Dorothy Parker
Barack Obama = Cliff Huxtable. Does that make Reggie Love = Theo?
If you weren’t around to see the 1962 Mets, here’s a reminder.
– Vin Scully, 5/18/09
You shouldn't be allowed to write a novel, if you... →
A post from the old blog...
Sung to the tune of “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul and Mary
All my bags are packed
I’m ready to go
Ameriquest is at my door
Predatory lenders know how to fly
But the laws I’m breakin’
Won’t cause my fall
The risk’s worth takin’
for Roland Arnall
Ethics rules, for me,
they don’t apply
So dine me and lobby me
Tell me that you’ll pay for me...