Author: Morgan

It’s Cookie Time

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It’s that wonderful time of year again…It’s girlscout Cookie time!   This morning, at Ralph’s, I was accosted by a brownie troop insisting that I buy 20 boxes of thinmints.    While that’s the cookie I’d load up on if I were going to buy 20 boxes of anything, don’t these kids know we’re in a recession? Four bucks a box is… Read more →

Why SkyMall is Awesome

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They sell things like this: If you’ve ever thought “you know what would be really convenient?” (and named some random who-would-need-that invention) chances are you’ll find it in Skymall. For as long as I can remember I’ve been an advocate of the in-flight catalog, so much so that Lindsey once commented after a weekend of house sitting that our place… Read more →

Things that make you go Hmmmm.

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So…everyone’s talking about AIG.   And with good reason.   The shit that’s going on is just insane.   Seventy-Three people were made millionaires (or had their millions added to) off of bailout money while the economy crumbled around them,  and not one of them stopped to say “wait…isn’t this kind of fucked?”   Seriously?   Do you know what the 170 Billion dollars… Read more →

Electric Harmony

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Last night – I got to see my favorite band (and two of my favorite people) play at the Hotel Cafe. After a nine month hiatus, Alex and Angela were back in LA with a vengeance (en route to Austin to play SXSW – so if you’re heading down to Texas, or live there, check them out!)   It was great… Read more →

The Stahl House

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Isn’t it incredible that one of the most famous (and coolest) houses in LA, The Stahl House (aka Case Study 22), was commissioned and built for only about eleven thousand bucks?   Of course that was back in 1960, when you could get an architect like Pierre Koenig to build you a glass house on a slab of rock that would… Read more →

Some Bullshit

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As of April 18th, The 818 area code is being split in two and some poor unsuspecting Valley-Ites (in Van Nuys, Reseda, Canoga, and Agoura) will be forced to get used to living in the 747.   Equally unfortunate,  those of us keeping the original area code will still have to dial “1” to complete any and all outgoing calls.   That’s… Read more →

Things Scott Says #3

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“Uh…no big deal Babe, but I got bit a little, so I’m just going to head over to the ER and get cleaned up.   I’ll be home in a couple of hours.” That was the phone call I got from Scott on Monday night, as I waited at home for Monday Awesome Day to start (this is what we call… Read more →