Last Saturday, LA's No. 1 Currywurst Truck was parked at the Westgate Media Park, down the road from me at the corner of Armacost Avenue and La Grange Avenue. (Interesting aside: My dashboard navigator seems to think that the "La" of La Grange is an abbreviation of "Lane." It … [Read more...] about Hold the Cheese
Shipwrecked
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Bee Serious
Dear @latimes, Today, again, you couldn't help yourself and ruined a perfectly good headline with a groan-inducing pun. Why? Does it help getting the message across? Does it signal that you find the issue ridiculous? I consider you a serious newspaper – that's why I'm a … [Read more...] about Bee Serious
Pizza Feng Shui
You know it has to be California when the top daily newspaper in the state writes in a restaurant review: The haphazardly arranged dining room has all the feng shui of your downstairs closet... They were talking about the pizza restaurant Mother Dough in Silver Lake, by the … [Read more...] about Pizza Feng Shui
Frozen
Who would have guessed that it is the movie industry that seems to revert the race-to-the-bottom trend in foreign-language localization? The same industry that is notorious for nonsensical translations of movie titles? Well, "reverting" is maybe an exaggeration, but read the … [Read more...] about Frozen