First Post: Monday, September 7, 2020

High noon here in the Golden West, and it’s a downright comfortable 90°F here in Studio City. Today’s forecast high of 97°F is nearly 20° cooler than yesterday’s high. We’ll take it. Continue reading

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First Post: Sunday, September 6, 2020

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‘No, no. We said SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. Not Death Valley!’

Yea, verily, today is the day we are being bodily assumed into Hades. We’ll miss ya! Continue reading

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First Post: Saturday, September 5, 2020

Merry Derby! Has it already been thirty years since this one? Mrs. Genter, Mr. Nafzger and, of course, the most selective rider of all time, Mr. Craig Perret. Unbridled…UNBRIDLED! Continue reading

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First Post: Friday, September 4, 2020

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All right, all right, ya’ loud & proud QAnon Patriots! This one’s for you. We like Patriots who were Patriots, not just those who play-act at it, or who wrap themselves in the flag while wearing a cheesy smile. Thank you! Continue reading

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First Post: Thursday, September 3, 2020

There was a time in America that if you were natural-born male citizen, regardless of ethnicity, you automatically became aware of the game of baseball around the time you turned 5 or 6 years old. So it was with us in the 1973 season, growing up in Old Rimrock, N.J., better known in the real world as Mendham. (Old Rimrock was Philip Roth’s imagining of Mendham in American Pastoral.) Nineteen-hundred seventy-three, that was the year the Mets surprised the National League East, and the ace of the team was Tom Seaver. Tom Seaver, thank you. Rest in peace, Tom Seaver. Thank you for your life. Continue reading

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First Post: Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Good morning! Continue reading

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First Post: Tuesday, September 1, 2020

As we have done many a year on the First Day of the Ninth Month of the Calendar, we make this special offering to one of this here Web log’s patron saints: St. Ian of McCulloch. Continue reading

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First Post: Monday, August 31, 2020

Racing! Continue reading

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First Post: Sunday, August 30, 2020

Good morning from a sunny and temperate Studio City, where the current temperature is 73°F at the bottom of the 11 a.m. (PDT) hour. The relative humidity is high but not unpleasant at 61 percent, and the winds are out of the southwest at 5 mph. The cloud cover is 15 percent and the UV index is 8. The barometric pressure is 29.85 inHg and falling, and the forecast high today is 84°F, expected sometime during the 3 p.m. PDT hour. Tomorrow morning’s low temperature will be a refreshing 59°F around 5 a.m. PDT. From the cool and bright West now, good morning. Good morning this time! Continue reading

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First Post: Saturday, August 29, 2020

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Who else? Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scores and reprises his Wakanda Forever salute in memory of Chadwick Boseman. Thanks for playing, the Internet has been won for today. Thanks, Obama! Thanks, Aubameyang! Continue reading

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