A MISFIT SPEAKS OUT
I can't believe this. As if it's not bad enough they stick me out here next to the friggin' freeway, but then they dress me up like a goddamn tree. Like it's so bad to be a cell tower. This sucks!...
View ArticleSNAPPED ON THE WAY TO WORK
Jewel idolatry off the 134 in Burbank.keywords jewel • billboard • elektra • burbank
View ArticleCOOL LITTLE HOLLYWOOD MOSAICS
This is a building at Ventura Boulevard and Firmament in Encino near where I work. It has these cool little mosaics on the gate surrounding the building. Each depicts a scene from a Hollywood...
View ArticleJUNE BLOOM AMID THE GLOOM
To Angelenos, June means two things. Actually, that's a lie. Like everything else in Los Angeles, June means approximately 12.9 million different things to the 12.9 million people that live here, so...
View ArticleLANGUAGE HURDLE
One can only hope that this is a case of sloppy translation in North Hollywood.Also see Hair People.keywords yummy hair • north hollywood • funny business name • signage
View ArticleTHE SUCKING AND THE SMACKING
I have a problem. I share an office with two space aliens named Rajneesh and Kathy. I suspect they weren't the best of students in their "How to Convincingly Act Like a Human Being" training. In fact,...
View ArticleMORE TROUBLE WITH ARTHUR LEE
Few things are as dangerous as two bored kids with nothing to do on a summer afternoon. The extended sunlight hours, the lack of supervision and the teenager's innate sense that the thrill of bad...
View ArticlePOSSIBLY THE BEST PLACE TO GET A HAIRCUT IN GLENDALE
If they make a mistake, abracadabra, you're as good as new!Haircutting and magic...almost as good a combination as this.keywords dean's shoppe • haircutting • magic • glendale
View ArticleCAPITAL ONE JUNK MAIL
Last year, I received a ridiculous amount of junk mail from Capital One. Not only is it a waste of paper, it's a pain because I can't just throw it away. I have to rip it up or shred it first. It seems...
View ArticleFAKE LETTER*
Service ManagerJohn Elway Dodge on Arapahoe10743 E. Arapahoe Rd.Centennial, CO 80112Mr. John ElwayElway Enterprises1 Elway WayDenver, CO 80204Dear Mr. Elway:Mission accomplished. Rest assured I have...
View ArticleSCRIBBLES AT WORK
I recently attended a high-level meeting of great import and consequence. Here are my notes.keywords office humor
View ArticleGETTING NAILED
I yearn for a simpler life, one where the clock ticks just a little bit slower, where getting a manicure or a pedicure is considered an "event" as they apparently are in North Hollywood.Also see Hair...
View ArticleDOUGHNUT HUT
Peole LOOOOVE their donuts out here. Places like the one below are everywhere, though few have signs that try so hard to be clever and unique.Also see Faster Donut.keywords donut • doughnut hut • signage
View ArticleREALLY, IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
It's just a knitting shop in North Hollywood.keywords happy hookers too • north hollywood • funny business name • signage • knitting
View ArticleTHE TIME I FELT CLOSEST TO MY SISTER LESLIE
In the mid eighties I was going to college in Rochester, New York, a frigid, blustery place that provided a relatively safe four-year sanctuary from reality and all of my impending adulthood's...
View ArticlePALM SPRINGS SUNSET
Cindy and I and friends Julia and Chris were lucky enough to spend this weekend in the Las Palmas neighborhood in Palm Springs. This sunset is just one of countless incredible moments were shared.Click...
View ArticleTHE TIME I FELT CLOSEST TO MY SISTER KIM
My sister Kim is smart as hell. Not like, "That was a good movie. The writing was so...SMART!" No, I mean smart smart. Book smart. #1 in her class, Ivy league, straight A, list the awards...
View ArticleA MAGNETIC RIBBON THAT MEANS SOMETHING
Finally, someone's gathered the courage to stand up to those arrogant, self-righteous bastards in the Pro Soliloquy faction. It's about time those yahoos got their comeuppance.keywords support ribbon •...
View ArticleTHE TIME I FELT CLOSEST TO MY SISTER JACKIE
"Uncle Tom, can I ask you a question?" Mae's perpetual smile was speckled with potato chip crumbs. I sat across from her at the kitchen table at the beach house my family was renting in Yarmouth,...
View ArticleA COOL HOUSE IN THE HOT DESERT
In 1957, Bob Alexander built a house for his doctor in the Las Palmas region of Palm Springs, California. In 2006, Cindy and I and friends Chris and Julia rented it for a weekend in July. Here are some...
View ArticleME + AN ORANGE VW BUG DRIVEN BY PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW THAT WELL = DANGER
I have a policy of not riding in orange VW bugs that are driven by people other than close personal friends because of two incidents that occurred during the 1980s.INCIDENT 1 - ICE DONUTSGreg was an...
View ArticleMORE ONE STOP SHOPPING
Save yourself a trip. Get your medical supplies before you get drunk and be prepared for those inevitable injuries.keywordsfunny signage
View ArticleTHE END OF SCRIBBLES FROM L.A.
It's been fun but it's time for us all to move on, don't you think?
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