Monthly Archives: November 2007

Conference Travel Tips

RKelley writes: Limit yourself to carry-on luggage Bring Visine Dump the conference tote Pack some Airborne or cold-blasting packets Have cash on you  You don’t want to be the one dick in the dinner crowd who doesn’t treat and take … Continue reading

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My Experience With Debbie Durkin’s On-Camera LA

Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Looking at myself in these videos, I understand why I slept with more women in my first year in LA (about 20) than in my last 12. In June of … Continue reading

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100 Notable Books Of The Year

From the New York Times: Fiction & Poetry THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER. By Tom Perrotta. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) In this new novel by the author of “Little Children,” a sex-ed teacher faces off against a church bent on ridding her town … Continue reading

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His L.A. Thank-You List

John Dickson writes: * I am thankful to live in a place where our City Council doesn’t squander time on local minutia and instead debates the seminal issues: Iraq, Darfur, global warming and, probably soon, the endangerment of the humphead … Continue reading

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After a teen girl falls victim to a Web hoax, angry neighbors take matters into their own hands

P.J. Hufstutter writes: DARDENNE PRAIRIE, MO. — For nearly a year, the families who live along Waterford Crystal Drive in this bedroom community northwest of St. Louis have kept the secret about the boy Megan Meier met last September on … Continue reading

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