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HOUSE OF HAPPINESS

The Emmy Awards have come and gone. 24 won the award for best drama series, and I feel somewhat vindicated for having spent 24 hours spread out across 20 Monday nights watching that show. Being that 24 is my favorite s…
IRRELEVANCE

Today I woke up around 8:30am. I got up, brushed my teeth, combed my hair, got dressed, downed my Corn Pops, and drove to the gym. I returned to my apartment at around 11:00am (that's 2 hours! Please, just humor me...…
I MISS "FRIENDS"

Well, the new fall television season is upon us, and soon America will be bombarded with a plethora of horrible television shows. It's truly amazing how many new television shows get canned and don't last through Decemb…
PLUTO

Pluto was officially stripped of its planetdom, meaning that there are officially only 8 planets in the solar system. Pluto, along with its satellite Charon¹, and the asteroid Ceres are now considered dwarf planets. Th…
MADE YOU LOOK

A few weeks ago I posted a list of five existential questions for all my friends to ponder and argue over (click here). Believe it or not, the questions weren't trivial. Rather, they were my feeble attempt to ask life-…
R.I.P. COUNTRY MUSIC

Emmis Communications Corp. has pulled the plug on 93.9 FM KZLA, in effect leaving Los Angeles and Orange counties without a single country music radio station. Around 10:30 am on August 17, KZLA abruptly changed formats…
SHE'S NUTS

Cameron Diaz should have won an Academy Award for her performance in the final two minutes of Very Bad Things. Just my $0.02.
MILK IS CHILLIN'

I used to do my grocery shopping at the Ralphs on the corner of San Fernando and Alameda, but I recently switched and I now shop at the Ralphs near San Fernando and Burbank. I switched for two (2) reasons: 1) It's…
DEXTER THUMBCHIPS & THE FURIOUS 5IVE

First, an existential question: You wake up on a Monday morning and find out that 40% of the world's population has mysteriously vanished. These people apparently vanished suddenly and without warning, leaving behind…
CHERUBS OF WACKNESS

Note: This post may offend people who know a dead baby. So, I was driving in from Cerritos today, and I passed a fire truck. This got me thinking about my favorite firefighter of all time, Fire Marshall Bill from In…
MY CLAIM TO FAME

My workplace is in the San Fernando Valley near a street called Hubbard Street. The street always sounded familiar to me, but I could never determine what exactly was so peculiar about it. I don't live in that city…
...AND IT'S LIKE THAT

It’s August!! Time for another good ol’-fashioned rant. I’m sorry if the vulgarity that follows contrues that I am an abrasive person. I am really not abrasive at all. I'm actually quite polite and charming. Have y…

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