Angeleno here. This litany of complaints about L.A. and the IOC are mostly true, though I’m not sure they add up to “a scam to speed up the rate of (the city’s) whitewashing.” It’s a pretty unprovable thesis that the 2028 Games will accelerate the negative effects of gentrification in L.A. beyond what the city would…

L.A. city government’s effectiveness at moving homeless encampments is poor. It used to be LAPD would just throw it all in a truck and dump it in a warehouse, and if you don’t come get it, tough shit. Not sure how you can come get it if the officer just tells you verbally where it is, and you’re broke and possibly…

You can buy during the next housing crisis. That’s how I got in, and the only way we could.

That plane belongs in a museum!

I do think you have a point. Comic book movies are like black holes at this point, sucking up a ton of the resources and mindspace that could be occupied by other film projects. It’s next to impossible for non-IP screenplays to become studio films these days, thanks to the MCU. I like Avengers: Endgame as much as the…

Yeah, I could eat.

Well he did spread a rumor a few years back that the Dems wanted to recruit him to run for governor of California, in possibly the loopiest political rumor in decades.

Wasn’t expecting any Hope Solo stans today. But bootsyhutch came through.

As geographical nomenclature goes, “Northern California” is kind of like Midwest in that it only makes sense from a certain perspective. Even San Jose gets called “Northern California,” despite it being almost symmetrically placed on the north-south axis. Central California generally refers to inland cities like the Fr…

Good to see Vitals is still out here providing decades-old fitness tips.

At the AP Los Angeles bureau we used to have to state the distance between a city and downtown in national stories. We even had a memo to use maps and rulers instead of Google maps. “Lawndale, a city 14 miles southwest of Los Angeles ...”

Dad was the one shooting up heavily in that commercial, IIRC. “I learned it by watching you!”

Sadly, this performance by a group of middle-aged dads reminded me that electric guitar is about as relevant to today’s music scene as Longclaw is to modern warfare. 

Watching Suicide Squad reminded me how much damn charisma Will Smith has. He almost saved that train wreck just by being in it. This show gave us that first glimpse of what a natural he is. Also, Carlton. 

There are only two ways this guy loses. One is someone else out there is basically training to beat him, by duplicating his successful tactics. Holzhauer honed his skills on other quiz shows, auditioned multiple times before getting cast, and uses his gambling experience for help (i.e., he can be ice cold about…

Y is a serial killer. No vowel is safe. Y will murder and replace you all.

Eight seems a little old for teeball. 

King Lear dies?! Spoiler that shit!

No matter what agencies try to do to keep NFL teams from acting stupid during the draft, it’s more or less impossible.