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This weekend an audio recording surfaced that is "allegedly" Donald Sterling being, well, Donald Sterling.  I use quotes because the word allege has such an insulting meaning of its own in today's society, i.e. The Boston Marathon Bombing was carried out by alleged suspects, as was the Aurora movie theater shooting.  Don't insult the intelligence of humanity by making anyone think there

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If you haven't noticed already, the segmentation of sports broadcasting has continued in the Los Angeles metro area, adding a second exclusive network controlled by Time Warner Cable (for now).  This new channel is to be the Dodgers' station, much like TWC Sportsnet is the Lakers' exclusive channel (for most games, not all, and they don't even have broadcasting rights on a few ABC and

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In an era where Corporations are considered people, and commercials are no more than an expression of opinion in the eyes of the law, the consumer has been left up excrement creek without a paddle when it comes to informative purchasing power and product reliability.  Utmost so, when it comes to communications entertainment and the oligopoly of service providers.  But tonight we've been

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Coming up on November 17th, from 10am-4pm at Good Neighbor Park in East Long Beach, Friends of El Dorado Dog Park are putting on the Holiday Bone-anza to help raise funds to complete the El Dorado Dog Park!  There will be gourmet food trucks on hand, a live DJ, Christmas music, dog training demos, a silent auction and raffle prizes, and they'll be making snow to play in.  Come on out

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I saw a Christmas "Holiday" Tree lot almost completely set up on my way to the office this morning.  It got me thinking about the retail-driven nature of the holiday season that we will be innundated with over the next 60 days, or so.  The furvor of the season even spills over to Wall Street, with expectations always lofty, and retailers painsakingly trying to achieve those expectations

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In an attempt to take "joke emails" to the 2.0 version, this came across my inbox today and I just busted.  Maybe it's because an appraisal for a loan I'm working on came in at least 10% short of what I conservatively thought it should, but this is just damn funny... Your House As Seen By:Yourself. Your Buyer...Your Lender...Your Appraiser...And....Your County Tax Assessor...

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Paradise Point Resort on Vacation Island in Mission Bay, San Diego

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  UCLA Crew in Ballona Creek, Marina del Rey in the Background

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  Hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th yesterday...this shot is from a few years back; fireworks shot off from a barge in Marina del Rey.

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The Americana at Brand

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  Alamitos Bay, Signal Hill in Background

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  The LBC, with Catalina in the Distance

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  Redondo Beach / Malaga Cove

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An Evening at Chavez Ravine

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  Downtown Long Beach Transit Mall

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Dodgers @ the Coliseum

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The Shack, Playa Del Rey

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  Downtown Long Beach & Boardwalk

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Antelope Valley

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The Hollywood Bowl

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Been awhile, so I'm overdue for a few.  Here we go; from the Backyard Collection...

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Fauxport: Action characteristically similar to slactivism; using emotion as currency. I must be a horrible person.  Last year on July 20th, I put no mention of where my thoughts and prayers were on social media.  Nor on December 14th.  And it's not because I wasn't engrossed in exactly what everyone else was, not that I wasn't feeling the same sense of "loss," shock,

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We've just completed our first month of Watering Hole Wednesdays, which has turned out to be a nice little break from the hustle and bustle of the week.  In March, we visited Agaves in Downtown Long Beach, Ashley's on 4th, Dempsey's in the Plaza, and Tracy's in Los Altos.       Next week is the beginning of April, and on the 3rd, we'll be headed to the Bay Street Lounge

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  This is How We Do Basketball in Playa Del Rey  

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Let me beging right away by stating that I did enjoy this album.  +Justin Timberlake 's new LP is by any objective standard a solid album, and probably the best released in 2013 so far. That said, the title is deceptive, and not indicitive of the feel of the album.  Knowing that this is in fact an album from the veteran Mr. Timberlake, it feels highly calculated and carefully

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