Los Angeles is not geared for heavy rain. The infrastructure can’t handle it. Streets and freeways flood, mud and rock slides close roads, destroy homes, and kill people. The canyon roads, many of which are major commuter routes, are twisty,…

Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005)  “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” From PC Mag columnist Joh DvorakI can’t say I was pals with Thompson, but I knew him and chatted with him a lot when he was writing…

Hunter S. Thompson, 1939-2005 He was my big, bad brother. He was too dangerous to love, but I looked up to him. He gave lie to the contradiction between “crazy” and “true”. He died most fittingly, in a gun fight…

Homer Simpson performs gay marriages! Marge Simpson’s sister comes out of closet!

From a friend, Michael Mitchell This morning I will go across the street to The Seal Rock Inn where he lived whilst finishing Fear and Loathing and I will order Corned-beef hash with poached eggs; his favourite breakfast. I will…

Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture author of “Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide, the Associated Press reported. He was 67. Thompson invented gonzo journalism, and influenced countless writers and…

So why are so many bloggers, as well as major media, so utterly focused on the Gannon affair? Ah well, a bit of sleazy sex always gets our media buzzing in mock horror. Meanwhile John Negroponte, a man who at the…