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  • Semper Fidel

    One week in Havana while the Castros still reign  Semper Fidel It is foreign, and we are on a very fancy bus, gawking out the windows at a land free of any advertising except exhortations to educate your children and pictures of the nation’s heroes. Cuba loves its heroes, its Comandante Che ...

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        We all remember (right?) the scene in Broadcast News where William Hurt tears up while interviewing a woman who was date raped--a phenomenon that had been unnoticed in the US until then. ("My cousin," mouths Joan Cusack, nodding sadly, to the other women watching. It was a silent epidemic.) After that, attention ...

  • Hall & Oates Make the Ladies Scream

    Soul to Soul Every year, I go to the BMI awards dinner. The music publishing company is one of two (along with ASCAP) that collects your royalties every time someone plays your song, so that if you are, for instance, Gary Wright, you can buy a house in Palos Verdes because ...

  • The Church of Phil

    Crooner Phil Shane just wants the world to love him.  With his wife, Michlene, he’s gotten off to a good start.  And now, with a Vegas tryout, all his dreams may come true Phil Shane is ministering to the lovesick, the aged, the hip and the drunk.  From atop his high ...

  • Careless People

    The Real Housewives of Orange County aren’t different from you and me—I have met them, and they are us FALLING SAFES It was one of those safes falling on you from a third-story window, a cartoon moment of consciousness-flattening, tweeting bluebirds and epiphany.  And it happened as I watched the seven magnificent ...

  • Welcome to Stanton–2006

    You can’t afford it here either   Stanton.  Beautiful, beautiful Stanton.  Home of Venus’ live nude ladies, “theaters” that feature bruised, hollow-eyed girls waving their clean-plucked naughty bits in the air, and a plethora of pawn shops where I like to do my Christmas shopping. Stanton is the place the rest of us ...

  • Capitol Punishment

    Capitol Punishment How I learned to stop worrying and love Arnold Schwarzenegger I was already back home from three days in Sacramento when Jennifer in the governor’s press office called about my credential. “We were only able to find two articles where you actually covered the governor at an event,” she said. That meant ...

  • LONG READS

      Welcome to Stanton In which I predict the housing crash in 2006, and get super mad about it! Capitol Punishment Arnold Schwarzenegger is like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, if Dorothy had never actually tried to find him, and went to Chops for an Absolut instead. Careless People I have met the Real ...

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    Soul to Soul Hall & Oates Make the Ladies Scream

You know what I hate? Besides the rest of it? Arts commissions! "But Commie Girl!" you're whining in your usual fuddle, "Arts commissions are full of people who care about art and want to beautify our city! How could you take your usual shiv to them?" Easy! Arts commissions are full of ...

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Jan, Jan, JAN!

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  "Office of the Presidency, respect it, blah blah whatever you're supposed to say right here blah," but I hope I would have wagged a finger in W.'s face if I'd had the opportunity. So good for Jan Brewer for stepping to Bama. And yet: She is among the more delusional of ...

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1. The Dowager Countess. 2. The valet. 3. The blonde chick who's into the valet. 4. The redheaded chick who left to be a secretary last season. 5. The evil lady's maid, who is evil. 6. The butler and the housekeeper (tie!) who are decent and weird. 7. The one sister with the lips. 8. The other ...

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Perhaps, like me, you didn’t know nor care too much about SOPA/PIPA (Stop the Online Piracy Act, and the other one), but believed your friends on the left when they hyperventilated that it would be the end of the Internet, and thus the world. (And like me you noticed their ...

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SOTU? STFU!

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UPDATE: And ... meh. The face to Romney about not knowing what he's talking about was a nice bit of shiv. But Bama's not gonna be able to laundry list his way through the campaign. He needs to start now. WHO's so excited for the SOTU? You are? ME TOO! Let's hope ...

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Semper Fidel

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A week in Havana while the Castros still reign

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Welcome to Stanton!

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A prophetic 2006 trip through the Orange County housing market, in which I explain how it will all come crashing down.

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Capitol Punishment

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Schwarzenegger is kind of like the great and powerful Oz, if Dorothy hadn't actually tried to find him, but had gone to Chops for an Absolut instead.

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