HiddenEntries (A Wholly Owned Cynthia Publishing Company Subsidiary Blog)

No Santa Anita today, either. However, today is sunny and bone-dry atmospherically, with a local cloud-cover of 2 percent and a 0 percent chance of precip all day. At the bottom of the 0700-hr. here in Studio City, the barometric pressure is steady at 29.99 inHg, the winds are from the north at 8 mph with gusts to 13 mph, and the temperature is 47°F on the way to a high of an even 60°F around 1 p.m. From the mild and again-golden west, good morning this time! Good morning now! Continue reading →

Turf Paradise used to have to close when it rained; there was nothing to the dirt-track surface underneath. Rock-hard caliche wasn’t conducive to adequate drainage. Indeed, they used to have to switch to the turf the races that had originally been written for the dirt. Turf Paradise! Santa Anita 2019, meet Turf Paradise, circa 1994! Continue reading →

Glowing, kvelling…the whole thing

All right, all right, ya Maccabees! Take it easy! Hanukkah Harriet stopped by the Home Office here in Studio City for the first night last night. Continue reading →

You must be below this height to ride…

Uh-oh. For Hanukkah, someone’s a getting his first set of wheels, and that someone isn’t Kevork K. Kanine, who’s going for the new-car smell here. Chag sameach! Continue reading →

OnLineAtTheShortLine12202019 from Steven Unite on Vimeo.

Season’s Greetings! Happy Winter, etc. Continue reading →

Friday! w00t! Continue reading →

Only one Tweet today, so far. You ever Tweeted a hundred times in one 24-hr. period? What’s that like? Are you in full control of your mental faculties? Is it an out-of-body experience? Do the fingers just hijack the rest of the motor skills? Inquiring minds want to know! Continue reading →

The mopes are coming out with their best-of-the-year listings now, and there’s no contest what our favorite album of 2019 is. It’s Purple Mountains’ eponymous debut (and also final) effort — too bad they’ll never bestow us with another one. RIP, David Berman! Here’s a good song, one which, if enjoyed, analyzed and understood, will ensure you never become one of ’em QAnon Mopes or however those sheeple call themselves, QAnon cultists or whatever. Continue reading →

Yo! Continue reading →

Zero percent cloud cover here in Studio City in the 11 a.m. PST hour. The UV index is 3, and the wind is a brisk 8 mph with gusts to 17 mph. The relative humidity is 20 percent, and the current temperature is 63°F, on the way to 66°F around the 1 p.m. PST hour.  From the mild and Golden West, good morning still. Good morning this time! Continue reading →