How many years has it been now? Seems like ever since Congressman Chris Cox left us to go to the Securities and Exchange Commission...Newport Beach has been without a voice for a Dredge in the bay! We never knew what magic that Chris was able to conjure...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Balboa Underground....Part II
It never ceases to amaze us......how peoplemake choices sometimes. In the visionary words of Butch Cassidy: "I see 20-20 and everyone else is wearing bi-focals!"As you walked around Balboa Island...before the bigday election....you could see that the...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Newport Beach Film Festival April 23rd Kick-Off!
It's opening night and people are talking about numbers like 40 thousand plus....on the 10th Year of the Newport Beach Film Festival. Even the inimitable "Mr. G"......the guy that started "The OC" will be there! Maybe there will be some of the "Real...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
We are getting to be like old people.
Diseases and annoyances that I have discussed with friends today:hot flashes Hepatitis Cbipolar disorderbreast cancerreaction to HPV vaccine: recurring rasheschlymidiastrep throatMSpolycythemia verafibrocystic breast diseaseHIV-AIDSNot as many as I thought....
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The cool part of Birmingham or: Kafka in 'bama
If you ever find yourself in Birmingham, Alabama, and you want to be reminded of, say, East Berlin not long after the fall of the Wall, when lots of artists cooperatives and little restaurants sprang up in alleyways and empty buildings, then take yourself...
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Reluctant Guest
So I decided to have some kind of little seder on the second night of Passover, some of this and some of that, not really a seder because seder means "order," and this would be more dadaist and disorderly. I invited a few people. I went to Whole Foods...
The Hostile Bitch
When they first met, the young woman was saying that she turned down a great job to stay home with her son. Cancer Bitch wondered what the job was. When she found out it was tenure-track, she was angry. Why was she so angry with a woman she barely knew?...
Monday, April 6, 2009
Cutbacks
Management decided that the workers were drinking too much tea. Specifically, the various types of tea that sat in the cabinet in the break room, which Management paid for. Management decreed that from now on there would be fewer choices of teas. There...
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Platelet dreams/Brooklyn screams
I know that other people's dreams are usually boring, so I'll try to fly through this one really quickly.I dreamed that I missed the first night of a journalism class at Well-Regarded University. I was excoriated, and P, who used to teach there with...
Hey Sailor....you are double parked!
We opened the Daily Plot this Sunday morning and wereamazed to see they were writing about something thatactually had an impact on our community. A seeminglysincere Tom Ivicevich had written a three column letterto the editor. Actually, Mr. Ivicevich...
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Old Before My Time
I don't like to complain, a student once said to me, and I took a chance and said, I think you do. In fact I was meeting with him because he had complained about the first night of his first course. I too could say that I don't like to complain. Is that...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Citizen of the Year....or Century?
Congratulations to Norm Loats, WWII Navy Veteran andformer Superintendent of the Newport Mesa Unified School District. Norm is 86 years young and will betouted June 11th by the Newport Chamber of Commerceat a location to be determined. Norm Loats 2009Citizen...
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