Nina Gordon takes on N.W.A., and makes me long for a Veruca Salt reunion. Courtesy UrbanTherapy

Despite all my bitching and whining about the rain last week, there’s still no better reason than the weather to live in southern California. To wit: Predicted high in Chicago: 23 degrees Predicted high in D.C.: 27 degrees Predicted high in Los Angeles: 81 degrees. Now I feel a bit better that Laz has won ...

Well, it’s that lovely time in the reconstruction of my computer’s hard drive when I have to ask everyone for their addresses…again. One of the wipeouts before I sent my computer off to be fixed wiped everything I had reconstructed, so if everyone who wants to could, once again, use the lovely link to your ...

I forgot to mention one lovely development that happened while I was computerless. And it’s a continuing pattern of annoyance. One of my asshat downstairs neighbors (who I’ve written about before) has acquired a set of conga drums. They have also decided that the ideal time to practice with them is at 2:30 in the ...

$16.23 in dimes, nickels and pennies. That, evidently, is how much change I managed to collect in a year.

This is definitely my favorite cops and robbers story of the new year: While Garfield County [Oklahoma] Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Mixon searched his vehicle, suspect Billy Gurney, 34, slipped behind the wheel of the patrol car and out of his handcuffs. “I had to make a lot of decisions, and I had to make them ...

My cat, for whom I have acquired about four dozen cat toys that are now batted under various pieces of furniture, has found a new favorite toy. The description of how this works doesn’t really do the full picture justice. If I can somehow get video of him doing this, I’ll do it, because it’s ...

I am home before 8 for the first time all week. Hooray!

I got my computer back this afternoon. I’m reloading data onto it now, programs tonight when I get home. AND…It stopped raining! Not one damn drop in the forecast for the next ten days. Damn good thing too, I was about to start looking for an ark.

Fucking hell. Two hours and twenty minutes to go 20 miles. Stupid mudslide danger. Motherfuck the 405, and its designation that 2 of the northbound lanes will be closed until Tuesday “or later.” LATER?!