Death by Television is a new feature based on a couple things: 1. I love television. I have two tivos, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen and a dual recording HDDVR in the living room. I can rip anything off the Tivo in the bedroom to my Continue Reading
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Chowhound: Vito’s Pizza – La Cienega (near Willoughby)
“You can’t get good pizza in LA!”, go the cries. I’ve heard them for 22 years. At first I was one of them. Then, truthfully, I forgot that this was even an issue (kind of the way it’s easy to forget that LA has two baseball teams).Over the years I Continue Reading
Listening Post: Aerosmith – Get a Grip
How do the boys from beantown follow up their masterwork? Aerosmith – Get a Grip -1993 (buy it) Livejudging Get a Grip: 1. Intro: Great. Nod your hat at the very tune that got you here. Nice.2. Eat the Rich:Oh, back to the big-ass riffage that you were known for Continue Reading
Listening Post: Aerosmith – Pump
….a template for how to capitalize on the fluke success of the first hit hybrid of Rap/Rock… Aerosmith – Pump – 1989 (Buy it) Here’s the way post-Listening Posts work: After I’ve made my way through the catalog of a band I back up my computer to the EHD. Then Continue Reading
Now that we’re done with your childhood, let’s rape your adolescence!
This sickens me to no end. LONDON – Children’s author Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth novel in the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series, seven years after the death of its creator Douglas Adams, publishers Penguin said on Wednesday. The Irish writer, best known for his Artemis Fowl Continue Reading
One voter at a time
I phone banked for about an hour at HQ in West LA. One person was home.24 year old guy. He’s always been a Republican, he said. His dad is. His whole family.He hates immigration. Wants the wall put up. His family’s been here since the civil war.25 minutes with him.Not Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation
Run-DMC re-energized the flagging brand and they return with a mega selling album. But is it any good? Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation – 1987 (Buy It) There is something familiar about this….this opening track…lemme check wikipedia…it’s so….well, it’s obviously a stronger, more assured piece of songwri- Oh, right. Got it.So, Continue Reading
Chowhound: Harvey’s Sandwiches – West L.A.
This election cycle has me jazzed, energized and hopeful. For the first time in my (seemingly longer by the day) life I find myself pouring my frustration and vitriol into actually volunteering for my candidate.I, along with 1500 others, trudged to the opening of the Obama Headquarters in West L.A. Continue Reading
Barack Obama and the least offensive ad in many a year.
The excellent website Living Room Candidate contains over 300 presidential ads from Eisenhower/Stevenson to today. It is edifying. It is saddening. It shows just how effective Madison Ave has become in shaping our leaders’ messages and, in a very real and organic way, it shows the evolution of the attack Continue Reading
Camp Obama. Yeah, I guess we can.
Towards the middle of the day I had mixed emotions.To say that a grassroots political training camp is a playground for chaos is an understatement.Sadly, its our fault: We’re democrats. We don’t really like to take orders. We ask questions. We question authority. So, it takes twice as long to Continue Reading