“It was the egg rolls, not the ecstasy.” If you missed the second episode of HBO’s revelatory East Bound and Down last night due to misplacing your savings in an Oscar pool, that’s no friggin’ excuse! EB&D > “Jai Ho” on repeat. Will Ferrell made his d...

They say cars tell a lot about their owners... As I'm driving to LA today in the carpool lane, and realizing there are a lot more motorcycles on the road, it occurred to me... Why not enforce the 'car size access' rule? Only allow access to class of cars in relation to the number of persons in them....

This road smashing into a building and emerging out on the other side is the most "normal" highway in this album of Japanese infrastructures collected by Dark Roasted Blend. Here are our favorites. ......

Unreliable bastards! We build freeways for you, and you bloody refuse to use them. I mean, not really, there's still gridlock every morning and evening, and we're still doing very nicely out of tolls, but not as well as we could be doing. Which really makes it difficult to justify building more of t...

RTFA: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-scientolog… A security guard at the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood today shot and killed a man wielding a sword, police said. Police detained the guard, who said the noon shooting was in self-defense, said Los Angeles P...

Hey, gang Jim Hill here. My apologies for JHM going dark for three days last week. But between my Mom going in for gall bladder surgery on Monday and my Dad winding up in the emergency room with... This is a summary only, for more in depth info about the Walt Disney Company and the Entertainment Ind...

RTFA: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/05/in-a-city-built… “There’s thousands of cars and you’re just flying by,” said one of the group, called RichToTheIE, by phone on Wednesday. “It’s an amazing feeling.” The renegade rides are a radical off-shoot of ...

Once upon a time here in L.A., if you purchased a hybrid vehicle, the State of California would reward you with a sticker allowing you to drive on the carpool lanes all by yourself, without the need for a blowup doll in the passenger seat. Those days are gone now. No more stickers left. You still ne...

Here are more of the interviews I did in August, September 1995. The first few are with this hilariously outspoken 24-year old named Stephanie. She was the best of the 50 or so women I interviewed. Her mom is Canadian-French and her dad is half black and half Japanese. This is shot in the backyard o...

Baby done did it. N.B: Long-time reader Kwis is a frequent commenter who is among the most knowledgeable hip-hop heads this site is privileged to count among its regular visitors. The dude also loves lists, much like me. So when he asked to pass along some year-end thoughts, how could I refuse? Oh y...