I was perusing through this old Police Blotter from the OC Register and saw this funny listing"Lafayette Road, 2800 block: boat burglary, July 19. A bottle of alcohol was stolen from an unlocked boat. Estimated loss: $13."Three questions:1. Did an officer...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
City Hall Poem
Also from Friday's OC Register (I must have not paid too much attention to them that day) is this poem about City Hall. I don't know what it means, which is probably why I got a D in my College poetry class.Enj...
The Article to Nowhere...
One of my favorite movies is Best in Show and in the beginning is an introduction to two of the characters, Sherri Ann Ward Cabot (a younger, blonde, puffy, trophy wife) describing her relationship with her much, much older husband Leslie Ward Cabot....
Monday, July 30, 2007
I Hate Fancy Hospital
It is 11:30 and I should be on my way to my last chemo appointment, along with my friend S who flew in from San Francisco for escort duty, but Fancy does not have me on the schedule. In fact, I am not on the schedule until a month hence. I called this...
Who to Trust?
Sorry for the length of this post, but...Years ago, a very connected and involved GOP Politico told me that in Politics, you can only truly trust two types of people. Ultra-Conservatives and Ultra-Liberals (notice he didn't say Republicans or Democrats),...
Friday, July 27, 2007
The End of an Era
For the past few days I've been obsessed about the big media news in town: the buy-out of the Chicago Reader, our city's leading alternative weekly, by Creative Loafing, an out-of-town chain that, from what I read, is not known for hard-hitting journalism...
Teacher Tax Credit Going?
It's been a summer of City Hall, County of Orange Supervisors, Mayor Rosansky's messy house, and potential Presidential candidate fund raisers. School's been out for the past month, teachers have gotten their raises, and classes will begin in another...
Free Lindsay...please!
Even though a State Agency was responsible...what was theOC Board of Supervisors doing when it should have be lookingwhere our "Identity Theft Sensitive" (from traffic tickets)was winding up? If it was Bangalore.....the chances may havebeen less...that...
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Congressman John Campbell Events
Coming up in August are a couple of events with Newport's (actually Irvine's) own Congressman John Campbell. While Huntington Beach's (and Newport's before redistricting) Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has been making news, Congressman Campbell has been...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
B-watch & Komen-watch
B-watchOur friend B spent last night on the floor next to his bed. His helper didn't show up last night and his cell phone was downstairs. The helper showed up this morning and got him dressed and into his scooter. B called me to come and plug in his...
More low cost housing for Newport Beach - Follow Up
I wanted to elaborate some more on Ron & Anna Winship's very informative post on the Southern California Association of Governments and what they are "suggesting" to Cities in the terms of low income housing by 2014. The LA Times picked up what...
More low cost housing for Newport Beach!
Today's LA Times California Section yielded a wonderand revelation for those of us not paying too muchattention to Government intervention in our lives.The article: "Irvine is told it must add 35,600 homes"by Tony Barboza relates the "Quotas assigned...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
DeVore in Human Events: Nuclear vs. the alternatives in California
Got this from Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's email list, also taken from Conservative icon, Human Events.comIt's a bit long, but it's worth it. Electricity Showdown in California by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore Posted: 07/24/2007 California passed two major...
Monday, July 23, 2007
The Million-Dollar Brazilian
Well, first of all, it's probably not a million dollars. It's probably going to add up to $100,000, billed to insurance. But the "hundred-thousand-dollar Brazilian" just doesn't cut it. Doesn't begin to conjure up that sexy gal from Ipanema. What I'm...
The Newport OC?
Now Newport Beach's Newport Harbor High School can join the ranks of the National Rich and Shameless. "Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County," will premiere on MTV at 10:30 p.m. Aug. 15 with a cast from Newport Harbor High School. I guess this has...
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Don't Do It Yourself or Trayf Sabbath
I've been eating high protein, low fat and have been cooking fish and chicken at home. I was tired to salmon (after having had it twice in a week) and rode my bike to the Food Hole to get some shrimp. That's the only other kind of seafood I know I like....
Friday, July 20, 2007
More Moorlach Updates
Wow, I'm really impressed with the OC Register's Peggy Lowe as she just keeps the updates coming. I tried to just keep updating my original post, but am giving up.Taken from the OC Register's Total Buzz are Supervisor John Moorlach's memo to the County...
Mo Money
What's the difference between paying off $55 million versus $65 million over 30 years at 7-10% interest?I don't think it matters...the City of Newport Beach will go into major debt to pay off a City Hall, which it is safe to say, a huge majority of its...
Shot Heard 'Round the County
Not it's not to the excitement level of Bobby Thomson's Home Run, nor is it like Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, but County Supervisor John Moorlach's anticipated announcement overhauling the County of Orange's employees pension should truly start a war...
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Waiting for the Tsunami
This is Day 3 after chemo, so the side effects are due to kick in: depression/anxiety and bone pain. But they haven't. I slept a lot today because I was feeling run down. And then rode my bike and got some work done tonight. But. The side effects aren't...
Sen. Harman Perfect?
I'm very confused now...(which isn't too difficult to do)Picked this up from OCBlog.net just now about Newport's (Actually Huntington Beach's) State Senator Tom Harman:Senator Harman Earns A Perfect Conservative Score From Capitol WeeklySacramento -...
It's Getting Better All the Time...
...it can't get no worse...Newport Beach has "grown" by 64 to 83 (depending on who's article you believe) acres, getting West Santa Ana Heights from The Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission yesterday. This essentially also, as Byron De Arakal...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Moral & Ethical Responsibility!
Have we all been asleep at the wheel or did thoselast episodes of the Soprano's take our eye off theball? We stand aside now as Barry Bonds looks to breakthe famous 755 home run record of Hank Aaron. Thereis a lot of conjecture about Steroids in Professionalsports....
Who's the Fool?
In my early morning news search, I came across this commentary in the Daily Pilot about why a light rail system (like the mess in Irvine described here and here and here and here) would be great for Newport Beach...and after laughing uncontrollably for...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Cancer & the Corporation
Just when you thought that breast cancer was the only cancer with corporate sponsorship with questionable motivation and focus--here comes a story from the New York Times on what happens when skin cancer joins with Neutrogena. I read it today in the...
Monday, July 16, 2007
Chemo Day
Just another chemo day today, seventh in a series of eight. In two weeks it will be over, everyone says, except that's not exactly true. The chemo will be over then. Then I'll take pills for 10 years. The chemo itself isn't so bad. I mean it's not great...
Friday, July 13, 2007
Yoga
Last Friday at yoga I was depressed and somewhat weepy. We often do partner work and that day we paired up to help one another do dancer's pose. It's what it sounds like: you do an arabesque arching your back and holding the foot that's behind you as...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Wild Girls of Genetic Counseling
Today I went to the Cancer Genetics Program at Fancy Hospital to start finding out if I have either of the BRCA gene mutations, more common among us Ashkenazim than the general population. The mutations increase a person's risk for both breast and ovarian...
Monday, July 9, 2007
Suffering
If anybody ever offers you the choice between suffering and depression, take the suffering. And I don't mean physical suffering. I mean emotional suffering. I am hereby endorsing psychic suffering over depression.Don't get me wrong; suffering, though...
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Pain & Pain
The topic for today is pain and pain, pain that causes weeping and pain that comes with weeping, and how difficult it is to tell the difference between the two. Close readers may recall that after my first Taxol infusion, I had joint and bone pain that...
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