Monthly Archives: November 2004

Godzilla: Hollywood star finally

The Big G. gets a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

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Where I’m not supposed to move to

For the hell of it I answered the Find Your Spot quiz with exactly the opposite answers than how I would normally answer. So according to them, my top list of places I shouldn’t move to are (keeping the website’s … Continue reading

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Where I’m supposed to move to

I’m convinced that all web quizzes are fundamentally broken after seeing my results from the Find Your Spot quiz. According to it, the best suited places for me are: Cincinnati, Ohio Seattle, Washington Knoxville, Tennessee Salt Lake City, Utah Tacoma, … Continue reading

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The Thanksgiving Dinner That Time Forgot

For several years running, I had Thanksgiving dinner at the Two Sisters restaurant in Inyokern and was thinking about it again this year but apparently it closed after several decades. It’s too bad because the interior and the menu at … Continue reading

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Trio down for the count

I’ve kinda been enjoying the time without satellite television and with the Trio network going off of DirecTV again, I see no real reason to go back to it.

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Terry Melcher R.I.P.

The most screwed up thing about this isn’t that Terry Melcher is dead, but that the best headline the Washington Post could come up with is “‘Kokomo’ Co-Writer Terry Melcher Dies”. For crying out loud he played on Pet Sounds … Continue reading

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Apple is the new black

The Apple Store: what was initially a questionable retail move is now totally hot. If “the Apple store staff all look like they just wandered in from practice with a local indie rock band” then that probably explains why people … Continue reading

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Essex, CA

Years ago it was the spot on US-66 where you could get free drinking water, but it now seems to peacefully enjoy it’s retirement as a meteorite target. Not sighted on this trip was the “Thanks to Johnny Carson, Essex … Continue reading

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Dodgy public access television on demand

Satellite television viewers who have been bemoaning the lack of local public access channels rejoice, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network streams all four of its channels on the net. Anyone want to fund a satellite television network that carries the “best” … Continue reading

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The Thing

It’s not quite the same “Mystery Of The Desert!” it once was and the omnipresent billboards on I-10 aren’t quite as numerous as they once were, but The Thing endures (barely) as prime roadside balderdash. Now part of Bowlin Travel … Continue reading

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