The ad has been placed…

I suspect whoever gets it will be doing the work of two, but who knows.

Even if you think you know what this is, watch it anyway…

Full story on how this came together HERE

-I replaced a lightbulb

-I cleaned my kitchen floor

-I did ALL my laundry at once

Shredded a bunch of documents too, but I do that a lot. I might vacuum for the first time soon.

I guess I may have to pay my own way to the Press Club awards, where two of my OC Weekly stories are [...]

Please go vote. Numerous people and interests are counting on you not to.

The most important thing on this ballot is Proposition 98. It is framed as a restriction against Eminent Domain — the ability of the government to seize private property.

It does indeed restrict that. But it also ends rent control in California.

Rent control restricts [...]

C’mon, can any movie where you get to watch this lady gettin’ it on be all bad?

I should say upfront that I’ve seen maybe only two complete episodes of SEX AND THE CITY on TV. They struck me as pleasant, un-substantive, and certainly inoffensive…in other words, didn’t make much of an impression. From what I’ve [...]

Why did I waste so much time in the past 12 months seeing movies at The Block?

I mean, yeah, the Thursday midnight shows. Only game in town. But jeez, I just went to the Irvine Spectrum, and they had freakin’ stadium seating and DTS digital sound. Also, they had employees who actually shut the auditorium [...]

I notice many other horror reviewers are really liking THE STRANGERS. I’m not among them.

I had intended to write an early review on the OC blog, but the notes I took during the screening are in a notebook somewhere inside the office I no longer have keys for. So I’ll wing it a bit.

THE STRANGERS [...]

I grew up in Ireland, where even Playboy magazine was not legal.

As far as TV — we had two — count ‘em, TWO — TV channels. If you could afford a 20-foot antenna, you could get four more, from England.

Then, in the late ’80s, cable TV came in, bringing with it two new channels, SKY [...]

I know that over the past year, there have been slimmer pickings on this blog. When blogging becomes part of your job, the hobby elements of it inevitably suffer. And I have been very proud of some of the blog stuff I did for OC Weekly – I got them a lot of traffic.

But [...]

Effective immediately, I am no longer an employee of OC Weekly.

I wish my former colleagues the best of luck in their future endeavors.

Addendum: I don’t feel like getting into the whys or wherefores. As far as I can tell, I’m still welcome to freelance for Village Voice Media Publications.

But I did want to send out [...]