Look Big Sky Daddy - there's Regular Daddy!

Look Big Sky Daddy - there's Regular Daddy!

Like 10,000s Firsts when all you need is a Last.

Like 10,000s Firsts when all you need is a Last.

"HS: Well, I’ll tell you something: I don’t even know if I’ll see it. That depends totally on the Coen brothers. I don’t go to movies with violence in them, and most of their movies, I hear, have a lot of violent scenes, so I stay away."

"HS: Well, I’ll tell you something: I don’t even know if I’ll see it. That depends totally on the Coen brothers. I don’t go to movies with violence in them, and most of their movies, I hear, have a lot of violent scenes, so I stay away."

There was a mid-90s Saturday Night Live that Rob Lowe hosted where, in his monologue, he stumbles across his old journal from when he was a struggling young actor in the 80s and reads some entries:

There was a mid-90s Saturday Night Live that Rob Lowe hosted where, in his monologue, he stumbles across his old journal from when he was a struggling young actor in the 80s and reads some entries:

Yeah, me too.  I remember reading a lot more novels by Hinton, even though I didn't like any of them quite as much as Outsiders, in large part to scour for in-universe character connections.  Even though Ponyboy kind of comes across as a jerk in That Was Then, This is Now.

Yeah, me too.  I remember reading a lot more novels by Hinton, even though I didn't like any of them quite as much as Outsiders, in large part to scour for in-universe character connections.  Even though Ponyboy kind of comes across as a jerk in That Was Then, This is Now.

She also released the book as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan Hinton because her publisher suggested that the novel, especially focused as it is on violence and young males, wouldn't be reviewed kindly or sell very well if people knew its author was female.

She also released the book as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan Hinton because her publisher suggested that the novel, especially focused as it is on violence and young males, wouldn't be reviewed kindly or sell very well if people knew its author was female.

There is something to the old truism that the reason great NY pizza is not easily replicable is due to the water, IMO - it's the same reason you can't get a real bagel many places outside of NY.  One of the primary ingredient in bagels and pizza dough is water, after all.

There is something to the old truism that the reason great NY pizza is not easily replicable is due to the water, IMO - it's the same reason you can't get a real bagel many places outside of NY.  One of the primary ingredient in bagels and pizza dough is water, after all.

How is the KC Alamo Drafthouse?  They had announced it was coming soon the last time I was in town visiting family & friends, but it hadn't opened yet.  I was excited to hear KC would be getting a Drafthouse, although I would have preferred it to be located. . . pretty much anywhere but the P & L District.

How is the KC Alamo Drafthouse?  They had announced it was coming soon the last time I was in town visiting family & friends, but it hadn't opened yet.  I was excited to hear KC would be getting a Drafthouse, although I would have preferred it to be located. . . pretty much anywhere but the P & L District.

This guy sounds insufferable, and the whole "Southern secession" thing that comes up at times (or "Texas secession," occasionally) fails to acknowledge that our most extreme dichotomies politically and culturally are rarely Southern or regional divides but more accurately urban versus rural ones.

This guy sounds insufferable, and the whole "Southern secession" thing that comes up at times (or "Texas secession," occasionally) fails to acknowledge that our most extreme dichotomies politically and culturally are rarely Southern or regional divides but more accurately urban versus rural ones.

Having lived here for the past six years, I can assure you Los Angeles is all too real.

Having lived here for the past six years, I can assure you Los Angeles is all too real.