For the last two college football seasons I’ve endured LA Times sportwriter Chris Dufresne’s snide anti-Alabama bias. Throughout the 2008 season, even though the Crimson Tide amassed a 12-0 record, he veritably — and rightly — predicted an SEC Championship mauling at the hands of the Florida Gators. Bama went on to the Sugar Bowl …
I’ve had this hat since 1993, the last time Alabama won the national championship. For the most part, growing up in Los Angeles college football is all about USC and UCLA. For me since I was 7 years it has aways been about Alabama. The Crimson Tide. My fantasy when I walked on the Beverly …
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So I left the office at 6 p.m. yesterday to make my way across town to the Larchmont Village restaurant where I’d join my Bay-bee! at her company holiday office party for dinner. In all, it was a trek requiring a heightened sense of awareness because there were just a bunch of motorists out there …
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Dear Motorists, Check out the four-inch tire assassin and general day-ruiner I found and removed from the No. 2 traffic lane westbound on Jefferson Boulevard while biking in to work yesterday morning: You and your steel-belted radials are welcome. Love, Will
During my last visit to Costco a couple weeks ago, I got stuck in a traffic jam created by some non compus mentoid who stopped her cart smack dammit in the center of her careless world, which to us unfortunates on the outside equates to the middle of an aisle whereupon the idiot adjourned to …
Kneeling down to hoist up my loaded-up backpack from the club chair ottoman is usually the second to last thing I do before leaving for work in the mornings (the last thing being give the dogs a jerky treat before the bike and I head out the door). This morning, as I bent over to …
This morning while stopped on Redondo Boulevard between Adams and Jefferson trying to entice an entirely uninterested stray chihuahua to me for some kibble, I looked over and behind the fence of the house I was in front of I found this bunny, at right, just hanging out and grooming its coat while I tried …