Month: February 2007

Do you have to let it linger?

When referencing this year’s cold and flu season, the answer is a resounding “YES!”

This is truly the affliction that will not go away, and I’ve heard horror stories of people whose nasty cold has turned into pneumonia. It’s an insidious bug going around, one that will knock you out for days, have you hack up a lung every quarter hour, make your chest scream in pain, run a fever, make you dizzy — and once you start feeling better and resuming a fraction of your normal activities, it will come back in the ring to take another swing.

Bottom line? Rest up, my friends. If you’re sidelined by this, DO NOTHING or as little as possible. Clear your calendar. Fire up the electric blanket and settle down with your pet of choice and remote control. Keep hydrated, and stay classy.

What’s my dateline?

A little late in the day for this, but here’s a little game, sure to be as wildly successful as Make Us Laugh. It’s called Where’s that dateline? I’ll give you a news snippet and you pick the dateline. Ready? Of course not:

A pregnant woman was shot in the back. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the head, rendered blind. A 20-year-old man was shot and killed behind the wheel of a moving car; his 15-year-old female passenger was shot as well.

So what’s my dateline? (No fair guessing if you read the paper or any other local news source before 4:30 today…) Is it…

A. Baghdad, Iraq
B. Sarajevo
C. wherever “Children of Men” takes place, or
D. a few hours in South Sacramento over the weekend?

Do I really have to answer? Bet the Police Chief is wishing he could have squashed that recent story about Sacramento having the lowest number of uniformed offers per capita…

I’m doing research, honest.

I would make this one a “Make us laugh” post, but that clearly doesn’t motivate folks. But, you know what motivates people? MySpace (a place for friends) discussions. With that said…

Access to MySpace has been blocked at the Lodi Police Department.

Police officials say they decided to block access to MySpace on the department’s internal network because officers were spending too much time browsing online.

But, never fear, officers who use the site for investigations or other authorized reasons will still have access.

Hmm, if you have a site that may need to be visited from time to time for investigations and other authorized reasons, do you really need to be on that site for non-investigations and unauthorized reasons?

Burrito Supremacy

Everyone has their favorite burrito.  Mine happens to be from the same place that also supplies my favorite tacos.  If I dug a little deeper I’d probably find that they give pretty good massages as well.  Of course I’m speaking about Angel’s Fresh Mex on 16th Street at U.  I know that I’ve lauded Angel’s before, but they really deserve it.  Today’s chili verde burrito was a thing of gastronomic beauty, a pork filled tortilla sleeve of love.  It will be hard to ever look at a burrito the same way again without feeling a little dirty.  If you haven’t made the trip over to Angel’s, you’re not only missing out, you’re probably doing irreparable harm to yourself, your family, and in some small way, giving aid and succor to our enemies.  Go there, now, eat, enjoy.

Zodiac coinkidink?

Does anybody else smell a big fat rat?

Nearly four decades after some of the most infamous serial killings in U.S. history, Vallejo Police investigators have submitted new DNA evidence to a California crime lab in hopes of catching the Zodiac killer.

The search for new evidence coincides with the release of a new film chronicling the hunt for the Zodiac killer. “Zodiac,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. opens March 2.

Although I am least happy that this story does not involve someone named Britney or Anna Nicole…

New day, new digs for Graswich

Reader kit (whoa! redesign) just emailed with breaking news from the Biz journal that R.E. Graswich, late of the Sacramento Bee, is bouncing back after leaving his 35-year gig by taking a new one at the Sac Mag.

He will now be writing monthly columns for Sacramento magazine and twice-weekly blogs for the magazine’s Web site, sacmag.com.

The best part about the Sac Mag’s website is that it can be read in places other than in the lobby of Supercuts. We can’t wait to see Bob’s new stuff.

Lost: the local angle

21Q’s Sam McManis beat me to the punch last week on the Lost promos for News10 starring TV’s Sawyer:

He looks into the camera with that Sawyerian smirk and says, “Don’t trust ‘The Others.’ Watch News10.”

The viewer can easily detect the barely-disguised ennui actor Josh Holloway (Sawyer) is nursing having to do promos for every ABC affiliate from here to Baltimore.

Quipped one friend of 21Q: “Yeah, Henry Gale is totally a KCRA guy.”

If you’re a “Lost” fanatic, you’ll get the reference.

Which I technically still am, but I don’t. Even with the ennui it’s still better than those Colusa Casino radio spots starring Carlos Santana.

UPDATE: Sam McManis emails:

Now, the implication by my colleague who made the Henry Gale/KCRA quip was that “The Others” aka “The Man” aka “The Establishment” would watch KCRA whereas the good guys would watch warm-and-fuzzy News10.

Yeah I don’t know why I didn’t get that. Although I like to think that Sawyer would be all over this here weblog, since he is the premiere provider of snark on the island. And thinking of him hunching over a keyboard hunting and pecking is almost as funny as when he wears glasses.