Posts tagged: la times

Sometimes it sucks to be gay.

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Not that I would know myself. But I sort of do know all the rest of it. Not that I’ve ever had an iPhone, or a house, but I lost an apartment I loved once. Chalk another one up to Dave Goldstein and John Heller. Re the caption, living in LA, vs San Fran or [...]

LA Times forgot Dilbert, but readers didn’t.

Dilbert isn’t an editorial cartoon, even though Scott Adams does do a lot of business topics, and knows more about business trends and management theory than any other cartoonist I’ve read. He’s even written books on this, although I’ve only read his cartoon books. Mmm, a new big fat book of Dilbert cartoons and some [...]

I need to frequent more bars.

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The Idea This is from my self-syndicated series, Daily Special. It ran in the LA Times for almost 5 years, and I slowly expanded it to reach a dozen other major newspapers (like the award-winning Minneapolis Taste section!) and alternates, like Nashville Scene. Daily Special is all about restaurants. Don’cha love them? I still think [...]

Dilbert isn’t funny anymore.

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At least in the LA Times. Hello, Dilbert, my old friend. (Can’t link to him on caption: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/). I know papers are trying to save money. The LA Times is laying off 150 more reporters this month. Really shameful. And haven’t I already been a victim from that?! And so sometimes they shave a sliver [...]