Archives for October 2010

By Andrew Ramirez Late Thursday afternoon, two weeks before Halloween and about six months after the Craig's list killer had been apprehended, my friend Max and I were in my truck on the freeway, then some side streets, and finally a narrow road, winding up Beverly Hills in a nice neighborhood. Max had a ripped piece of paper with an address scrawled on it. “We're here,” … [Read more...] about What We Talk About When We Talk About LA: A Steal in Beverly Hills

I recently watched a dystopic, farcical, futuristic sci-fi film called Idiocracy.  The premise was that while the smart and well educated tended to be prudent about their decision-making and forgo having children when it would not be responsible, those that constitute the dregs of society continued to procreate in record numbers until, eventually, society was reduced to nothing … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down – The Bicycle Debacle