Rain, Strippers, Modelo, Prevaricating Presidents, Luke Ford as Hemingway, Amy Alkon as Phillip Marlowe

Don’t worry about the rain arriving on Saturday, the local forecasters promised. The storm to watch, they insisted, is the one arriving on Monday. Uh-huh. Well, don’t look now, Fritz Coleman and Johnny Mountain, but it’s raining like fuck outside and has been doing so all day long.
Since we have a rainy weekend ahead [...]

There’ll Be No Rump Riding at the Kaus Ranch House

Well, I ambled on over to Mickey Kaus’s cyber ranch house this evening. Why not extend some holiday greetings to the follicle-challenged little troll? I thought. You never know, one of his distant relatives may have been one of Santa’s elves and since Santa was very good to me this year I should be spreading [...]

Blood and Wine

“I cried the day Ernest Gallo died,” Mac confessed to Trace. “I sat right down on the edge of my bed with a bottle of Gallo wine and I cried like a baby.”
Mac’s love for Gallo wine bordered on the romantic. Trace couldn’t believe that his old friend consumed so much cheap wine and still [...]

Random Shots

At Take Back the Times, retired L.A. Times reporter Robert Reich appears to have gone off the deep end. He believes that Steven Spielberg deserves censure for making the film “Munich”:
The producer Steven Spielberg has delivered a contemptable product in his movie Munich and it should be boycotted by all those who support the U.S. [...]

Trace’s Night Before Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the hotel
not a creature was stirring in the residential hell.
The doors were all locked by the chains with care,
and the hallways were empty and barren and bare.
Trace’s child was nestled all snug in her bed,
in a land called Anaheim, a place full of dread.
He sent her a [...]

Merry Christmas

Trace Hooks Up With Jack For The Holidays via Angeleno Blog.
And we would like to shout out the best of the holiday season to our friends at LAist, and the gang at Independent Sources, with whom we shared a few stories over the last six months that Wonderland has been in operation.
And very warm [...]