Ah, the California State Fair. Where mobs and mobs of people pay outrageous parking fees and then fork over $395 at the admission gate. Actually, that’s just an estimate, projected for inflation from the 1937 figures; who knows what it is this year? And where even more mobs of people park miles away from the […]
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Sacramento Kings and Why Sacramento Isn’t “Duh. Winning.”
Poor Sacramento. The red-headed stepchild of California. I’m not here today to bemoan the fact that Sacramento was ranked #5 on the Forbes List for most miserable cities in the US. Nor am I here to point out there are no less than five Facebook pages whose titles include the words “Sacramento Sucks”. And never […]
My Kingdom for a Newspaper (and other exclamations)
The last time my name made the papers was when a local bridge troll and I partnered up on an international spy ring involving a rare Chinese grasshopper and some yellow Legos. That grumpy old cuss took me places and I’ll never love another wart-infested weed-dweller like that again. So I wake up the other […]
Sacramento Connect Mixer: An Exercise in Anti-Misanthropy and Clammy Hands
There’s nothing I like better than feeling like totally super awkward, so I chose to subject myself to an event the other night where I would know no one. And I walked into it all alone. While a woman greeted me with a name tag, I looked out into the sea of strangers who appeared […]
