I still don’t have Internet, and won’t till Tuesday. Nor do I yet have an after-hours key to my office, and I don’t know when that will be.

But Monday night, I’m seeing a movie in Culver City that I need to write about immediately. Will anyone I know plan on being up and around from, [...]

I can’t count the number of times people have asked me how to get a job like mine. Well, as Jonesy says, ‘ere ya go. Come be my coworker:

We have immediate openings for full-time staff writers in Houston, New York, San Francisco, and Orange County. We’re looking for experienced journalists who understand the difference between [...]

My li’l review of Hills Have Eyes 2 is here

UPDATE: another li’l review, of a flick called DATING GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, is here

[note to readers - I'm planning to get away for the weekend, and will probably blog more substantially while away. The paucity of entries should be ending soon. Home internet begins Tuesday.]

It’s at the bottom of this page.

There’ll be a couple more when the new OC Weekly goes online later today.

Last night I did a kind of undercover assignment in hostile territory. Interesting stuff. The payoff will be in next week’s paper.

Still need to get a cover story piece going, though. I’m getting all kinds of [...]

no home phone yet

no home cable/internet yet

I tried to explain why, but this computer at work has a power cable that’s remarkably easy to accidentally kick out of its socket. Big post got lost, and I have no desire to repeat myself too much

house full of boxes, many of them filled with crap that needs [...]

If you have a site hosted at blogger.com, shell out the cash for your own URL, like Pererro does.

In order to get rid of persistent spam, the word “blogspot” will now automatically send any comment containing it into moderation, where I may or may not notice it.

So yeah, you wanna link your blog, it had [...]

I accidentally junked a few legit comments. If anyone has problems logging in as a result, please let me know.

I’m having the absolute worst chest congestion/asthma-like symptoms I’ve had in a long time. Pretty sure they’re allergy related, but short of getting a prescription inhaler, does anyone have any tips?

also. HELP NEEDED:

I have to watch two new movies on DVD over the weekend. I have no idea which box my TV and DVD player [...]

My very first ever art exhibition review. Here’s the opening paragraph:

Twenty-four Panasonic widescreen TVs, in two concentric circles, with one set dead in the center. On each screen is a talking head, but the only one audible is the centerpiece, which changes daily. For each of the other screens, a stool and a headset are [...]

If you didn’t make it out for the movie’s opening week — Nathan and Robert Englund will be in attendance at the midnight show Friday night at the Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd.

If you get to meet Nathan, tell him you read the interview right here on LYTrules.com.