The Foxhole of Eternity
By Anonymous
It was a simple recon mission: run in, get a few things that evening for breakfast the next morning—bagels, cottage cheese, Metamucil (science!)—rush home and watch 30 Rock on TiVo (science!). I made no judgments about you, a 50-ish man working the checkout counter—the thick bristles of salt and pepper hair [...]

Three years later, Bert Grimm’s tattoo parlor reopens for business
By Theo Douglas
When Bert Grimm’s World Famous Tattoo reopened March 31 as a branch of the Outer Limits tattoo/piercing chain, after a three-year, $350,000 renovation, the first person to get a tattoo was a 36-year-old father of three from Whittier. Which was almost fitting, considering that [...]

By Steve Lowery
A few thoughts on the death of Kurt Vonnegut, who died Wednesday.
Though the comparison gets thrown around a lot—waaaaay too much—Vonnegut was one of the few writers who could genuinely be mentioned in the same breath as Twain for his ability to marry serious thought and laugh out loud humor—Ring Lardner, a personal [...]