OC Weekly’s Trendzilla, by Vickie Chang goes off on “Sex in the city.” Finally, someone else who doesn’t, even remotely, see the appeal of that show. Carrie Bradshaw bores me. Her fake column even bores me, and we never really even read it. And her friends, arrrh. I wish Vickie had a show. Now THAT […]

What do you get when you cross a sixty-something-year-old beautiful woman with a sharp wit and fab shoes? LoRee Brooks performing at the The Long Beach Playhouse in the Clean Comics Showcase. (Clean Comics defined: no naughty language) LoRee is the mom of my friends; Jana, Jill, and LeAnn. I met her and her late […]

Heather, the enormously talented artist at Bluhm Studios has created some beautiful Customized Holiday Cards. You can order these two sided, fully customized cards with your own photo and greeting. View Heather’s Card Gallery Here! I am ordering them for our family’s holiday cards this year. Contact Heather (soon) by email through her site. You […]

I was a journalism student in college and had the book “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White tethered to my wrist most of the time. That is a bit of an exaggeration. But, it was THE book that you needed to read, read again, and again. It is a book that […]

The ability to use my suspension of disbelief in everyday living has strengthened as I have grown older. Living in Orange County has heightened this useful skill. We all do it. Most of us can sit in Lucille’s BBQ in The District and think, “I just love visiting the South. What a simple and sweet […]

Mary Tyler Moore was is my idol. Her theme song was like a mantra for my life. “Who can turn the world on with her smile? (me) Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worth while?” (me again) Even the montage, that was the fabulous beginning of “The Mary Taylor […]

I like Virginia Heffernan’s Blog, The Medium, in the New York Times Magazine. Offical description of the blog: “The Medium” will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images: web video, viral video, user-driven video, custom interactive video, embedded video ads, web-based VOD, broadband television, diavlogs, vcasts, vlogs, video podcasts, mobisodes, webisodes, […]

Today is my brother Randall’s birthday. He is forty-three today. I thought I would make a list of the ways he is the same today, at forty-three years old as he was at sixteen. The Ways Randall is the same at Forty-Three as he was at Sixteen: -Thinks every girl he meets has a crush […]

I posted his astounding video a couple of months ago, now here is Paul saying thank you to the medium that has catapulted him into cyper fame. When was the last time you said “thanks” to YouTube?