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2010-09-06 Lost in OC: Money: the Real Grass Roots by Jim Washburn
I just about have had it up to here with government regulation. I would tell you where “up to here” is except it would entail using a government-standardized unit of measure.
2010-09-03 California Dreaming: I Got Your Value Added Right Here by Rebecca Schoenkopf
“Well, all you have to do is look how she taught you to see that!” He was purring and pandering simultaneously. Gil Cedillo is a politician of exceptional skill.
2010-09-02 MasterPlanning!: Twelve Generations of Environmental Damage by Tony Chavira
You are not only responsible for your own carbon emissions, but also for 50% of each of your children’s carbon emissions and 25% of each of your grandchildren’s.
2010-09-01 Donuts at 2 A.M.: August, the Mother of All Months by Gary Phillips
Did anyone really believe this Don Draper crossed with Lonesome Rhodes would succeed in hijacking the legacy of the momentous March on Washington?
2010-08-31 Oklahoma Dreaming: Letting Go by Donna Schoenkopf
I would see them from time to time as I drove past their trailer. They often played outside and had some little tables and chairs and toys scattered on the lawn.
2010-08-25 California Dreaming: Looking for Pretty People at the Dodger Game by Rebecca Schoenkopf
It was my little brother Cakeyboy’s idea: hey, let’s play “who’s attractive in the crowd”! Every five minutes or so, we’d get excited and start to point one out …
2010-08-24 Oklahoma Dreaming: In the Crossfire by Donna Schoenkopf
They sent anti-Muslim, anti-Obama sentiments, and flags were imprinted next to their writings because they are Americans and good Christians.
2010-08-23 Lost in OC: Vampires, Sucking on the People’s Blut by Jim Washburn
My wife is hooked on True Blood, HBO’s hemosexual romp that’s half bodice-ripping soap-opera, half Zalman King-styled softcore kink porn.
2010-08-19 In Transit: San Fran Tran (part 1) by David Deutsch
For a mere $20 I got three-day unlimited access to the MUNI system, which included buses, the cable cars, and the trolleys, which looked like New Jersey diners on wheels.
2010-08-18 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Big Bite by Gary Phillips
In South L.A., according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Advocacy, one third of teenagers there are obese, nearly twice the county average.
2010-08-17 Oklahoma Dreaming: The Happy Democrat by Donna Schoenkopf
People who say they vote for the person and not the party are deluding themselves. No one can know what’s in a person’s heart. We CAN know what party they belong to.
2010-08-13 California Dreaming: Bus Stop by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I kept telling people I was going to grad school, but didn’t exactly offer where. Once they inevitably asked, I’d make my embarrassed face and positively mumble: “USC.”
2010-08-12 MasterPlanning!: Including Affordable Housing Somehow by Tony Chavira
Across the wider spectrum of society, lots of homebuilding means lots of affordable housing. That is, as long as stuff’s always being built.
2010-08-10 Oklahoma Dreaming: Hand Watering by Donna Schoenkopf
I had a relationship with the plants which grew on my little plot of land on that peninsula of cool, moist air, so real that I swear I could feel my plants yearning.
2010-08-09 Lost in OC: Aloha, Travis Harrelson by Jim Washburn
Shuffling around hunched over for two weeks, in so much pain that even anticipating getting out of bed had my spine knotting up in fear.
2010-08-06 California Dreaming: Fight or Flight by Rebecca Schoenkopf
“Just keep pouring your milk!” the girl instructed me. This would be a perfectly acceptable thing for someone to tell you if you were in a cooking class, maybe.
2010-08-05 The Urban Habitat: From the Frontlines of Affordable Housing by Veronica Jauriqui
For the first time in its 34-year history, the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity joined the ranks of the most prolific homebuilders in the United States.
2010-08-04 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Shape of Things to Come by Gary Phillips
Just when I’m ready to ignore one more overdue notice from the L.A. Times, son-of-a-gun if they don’t prove there yet remains a reason for the daily newspaper.
2010-08-03 Oklahoma Dreaming: Chiggers by Donna Schoenkopf
When I first realized I had chigger bites, I had a vision of tiny, spidery, red chiggers, the size of the point of a pin, burrowing under my skin and laying eggs …
2010-07-30 California Dreaming: Working by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I worked on one project only, over and over again: proofreading 38 minutely differing versions of the same insurance company brochure, broken up into regions …
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