The inspiration for long-distance runners is the Greek messenger Pheidippides, who legend has it ran the 25 miles from the plains of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to announce the Greeks’ victory over Persia, and then immediately dropped dead. This is the model of my sport of choice. You think sky divers are twisted?… Continue reading
LA Times, LA Marathon…Ooh LA la…ahem
The entire article can be read here. I’ll post it here in full later. Cheers.
The Obama Administration vs. Political Comedy
This is also posted at Huffington Post. Is political comedy in trouble? Will there be no funny in the future with an Obama administration? Is Barack Obama bad for comedy? Disregard all the non-comedians’ fears that Saturday Night Live will go the way of Circuit City. Ignore all the yammers about how Barack Obama is… Continue reading
McCain is Doing Bob Dole’s Material
After Senator Bob Dole lost to President Bill Clinton he went on the Tonight Show and said,”I slept like a baby. Woke up crying every two hours.” Hysterical. Bob Dole – out of touch and old – but funny. Last night on the Tonight Show Senator John McCain told Jay Leno, “I’ve been sleeping like… Continue reading
Insane in the Middle Name Hussein
This is cross posted at Huffington Post. The left-wing has to stop being upset about the right-wing using Barack Obama’s full name. Last Monday, there was a Lee County sheriff in Florida introducing Sarah Palin at rally. The event itself was a like pep rally for a losing lineup, chanting about team spirit as the… Continue reading
Sarah Palin: A Farce To Be Reckoned With
This is also posted at Huffington Post. In the post-debate, post-partisan, postpartum, postmortem by those that think about stuff, those vilified media types, it was a pretty clear consensus of what happened on that stage in St. Louis last week: Sarah Palin did well because we all know she’s not too bright. It’s like she… Continue reading
Scary Stupid: Palin In The Great History of America
This is cross posted at Huffington Post. There has been a slow trickle of online clips from Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin. Like water torture they’ve come out night after night. Drip. Drip. Drip. Each progressively more ridiculous than the last. It’s like CBS didn’t want to release the entire interview all at once… Continue reading
McCain is Giving the Economy the ‘Terri Schiavo Treatment’
 This is cross posted at the Huffington Post. “History has shown that in times of real trial, elected officials rise to the occasion.” -President George Bush’s address to the nation September 24, 2008. John McCain suspended his campaign until an agreement can be reached in Congress about the proposed bailout of the financial system. He… Continue reading
McCain suspends his campaign…because uhm…yeah…
John McCain announced that he is cancelling the first presidential debate on Friday night so he can work on the economy. What a tool.
Denouncing Extremists While Touting ‘Mavericks’
This is cross posted at Huffington Post. When I endure a really, really bad movie ”” I like to watch the director’s commentary on the DVD. I do. It’s my way of looking for an explanation of why total crap is made, marketed and landing in my DVD player. Call it morbid curiosity. In extreme… Continue reading
The Nixon Library
I went to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda this weekend because…well, I’m a geek and that’s what geeks and old people do in their spare time – they hang out at libraries on the weekends. The picture above was in the Vietnam exhibit. There was a television playing Nixon’s ‘silent majority’ speech. That image… Continue reading
Sarah Palin: The New WMD’s
This piece was also posted on The Huffington Post. The Grand Old Party has been fervently defending Senator John McCain’s choice for Vice President, first-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The spokespeople have been synchronized. And the tactic is instead of answering questions — ask them. And when you ask them — throw in an ‘implication… Continue reading
Fast Company Article
Here’s a link to the article I wrote in next month’s issue of Fast Company. Fast Company is one of those great magazines where you actually feel smarter after reading it. Not my article exactly. But the other ones. Really great. Ahem.
LA Weekly and the Pico/Olympic Saga
I co-authored a piece that is in the LA Weekly today. My original assignment was a follow-up on the Pico/Olympic story that then was absorbed by a larger story about the MTA. The story is here. Thanks for stopping by!