Or, how the Queen Mary can live long and prosper

Kevin is regaling us with tales of impaled Japanese motorcyclists. Kevin is the most interesting kid I know and it’s because of him that I remain informed about Latin derivations, the location of the world’s supply of small pox and how Japanese motorcyclists who get run [...]

The year in Finking
You are mad as hell, but make no mistake about it: You are most definitely going to put up with it, probably forevermore. Fact is, you’re pretty much powerless over everybody. We all are. And so, you hate. We all do. It’s our common denominator. Makes us feel closer, more connected—kind of [...]

This was an especially terrific Christmas and not just because I finally got the Lee Van Cleef box set I’d been asking for all year.  No, what made this Christmas so great was I never had one of those nightmare parking experiences at the mall you normally expect during the holidays.
I was happy. Of course, [...]

AND $1.5 MILLION FOR FRANK COLONNA!
Even as they downplayed the importance of their 7-0 vote Tuesday evening, the members of the Long Beach City Council nonetheless set in motion a process that could ultimately result in a $5.8-million bond issue to renovate the alleys behind the Belmont Shore business district–and pay that district’s former councilman, [...]

When many of us at The District still worked in Santa Ana, it goes without saying that I never got parking tickets in Long Beach. I got them in Orange County–my worst, in fact, was outside of Grand Central Art Center, when they added an extra $76 because I don’t have a front plate. (Which [...]