No, the toilets don’t flush in the other direction. As a matter of fact, they go straight down, with force. Seems like this is another myth, like the flying cars. We live our entire lives just to be disillusioned. Actually, the supposed greatest country in the world doesn’t have this flushing thing worked out. Every […]

This week’s episode of "Entourage" focused on Eric’s inability to fuck mindlessly, to do the dirty deed and move on. Can you do this? I can’t. I get emotionally attached. Hell, it’s hard for me to press myself upon someone if I don’t feel the connection. Maybe my father never led me, maybe I wasn’t […]

 1. The traffic goes west, not east. When I first moved to Santa Monica, it was too far from Hollywood, where all the action was. But now seemingly every entertainment company has moved west of the 405. It was clear sailing from my house to downtown, but in the other direction? OH BOY! And it […]

What can you say about a twenty five year old girl who died? Well, maybe she was a couple of years older than that. But one day, Rob Sheffield’s wife, Renee, just keeled over and died. Just like that. No illness, no warning, just kaput. How do you cope with that? By writing a book. […]