Last week the weather in Southern California was unusually cold. Temperatures plummeted into the 30s at night, even into the 20s in some places. It snowed in Malibu. West-coast Whatsiters woke in the morning to frost on our giant strawberries.
Southern Californians are notoriously soft when it comes to weather. We’re just […]
Writer’s block is a terrible thing. I’ll spare you the half-baked musings I couldn’t bring myself to finish this week.
Instead, let us meditate upon Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. For one thing, we are apparently supposed to call her Hillary now. And then there’s the vital question: Is she a snappy dresser?
What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done for a girl (or guy, if that’s what lights your candle)? When have you done something so contrary to your normal routine — so against your very sense of self — that a miniature you hovered over your shoulder shrieking, “I can’t believe it! What are you thinking?” […]
In science fiction movies people from the future are always popping up in the present. In The Terminator one of these time travelers warns, protects, and impregnates our heroine. In a seminal episode of the TV series Roswell, “future Max” comes back to prevent his younger self and then-lover-future-wife from marrying. Apparently their relationship will […]
One hundred words or fewer, words of one or two letters don’t count. This time with a strong West Coast flava, focused on local products: movies, TV, and kooky theology.
Dexter (Showtime, avail. on demand)
This fall, posters appeared on the subway advertising Dexter, “a man who takes life. Seriously.” Michael C. Hall plays the serial killer […]