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 [...]
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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 [...]
My Crowning Glory: Tales of a Dental Procedure
Since 1992, I’ve been going to this caveman in Santa Monica, California, for my semi-annual dental check-up and exams. A few years ago I got my first five (FIVE!) crowns installed in my mouth. Wrecking balls and cranes and back-up beeping sounds emanated in and around the area of my jaws-of-life-opened mouth.
