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Posted in Breaking the 4th Wall, The Land the Times Forgot on Dec 22nd, 2010
Restaurant critic for the LA Times has been outed! Her feelings about food are no longer secret! S. Irene Virbila, the L.A. Times’ restaurant critic for the last 16 years, was visiting Red Medicine restaurant in Beverly Hills when the manager took her photo, and ordered her and her 3 companions to leave the restaurant. [...]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot on Sep 6th, 2010
Roger McCulloch sucks, too, and the LA Times has hit the bottom of the barrel. I picked up pen to paper today, dear readers, to share an article in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, the first section. (I’m a week later reading it, cause of a seriously good party LA Observed threw that weekend.) Roger [...]
Posted in People who don't know any better, The Land the Times Forgot on Nov 11th, 2009
Who says you can’t teach an old dog grey lady new tricks? I’m talking, of course, about the LA Times (which they call the Old Grey Lady.) Liberal bastion. Friend of the homeless. Empathizer of the poor. Yet they have changed their attitude, at least towards one poor group – our gangs. The Times has [...]
Posted in Important Stuff, The Land the Times Forgot on Nov 3rd, 2008
I wrote in my cartoon blog, Why I Did It, about how I take my canary for a walk these days. He’s near enough to a window to get fresh air, but for him to go outside is nirvana. Can you imagine how the breeze feels against his feathers, ruffling them, tickling his skin? I’ve [...]
Posted in LADWP, The Land the Times Forgot on Jul 30th, 2008
Ever wonder why water in bottles has an expiration date? It’s the plastic. It does bad things as it dissolves. Heard John and Ken talking about it this afternoon, while discussing emergency earthquake supplies. Not only do you have to keep checking the batteries and canned goods – should you go the nervous ant-like way [...]
Posted in Creatures, The Land the Times Forgot on Jul 6th, 2008
UPDATED: here. Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand. Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit. Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery [...]
