That’s what I’m calling it. A slump. Just a string of unfortunate results. Accidents, even.
I don’t actually look like that.
A little down period on the mugshot front. It began the other day. 2005, I think it was.

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This must seem a bit over the top by now. Well, it does for me, too, and I have the benefit of knowing how it happened. Three visits to Paris in 13 months and change.
To recap:

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I was thinking about the Beijing Olympics, and realized that the U.S. men’s basketball team had zero Clippers on it. But then, neither did the Vancouver Olympics. Have any Clippers on the U.S. team.
Though clipper ships presumably sailed to Vancouver, but not Beijing, it being too far from the ocean. Hong Kong? Sure. But not […]

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Another rough year for the economy. The world economy, the national, the state …
People losing jobs. Unemployment of, what, 12.5 percent in California? Something like 10 percent in the nation? Even higher, when you include people who have stopped looking for work and the scads of people not fully employed.
U.S. print journalism is still in […]

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Hard to imagine an auto race could be the biggest global event in the history of Abu Dhabi, but there you are.
For our first two weeks here, working at The National, there was really only one story (OK, aside from the plane crash in the emirate of Sharjah, up the coast), and it was the […]

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I did a story this week on Danica Patrick, the perky little race driver. Her contract with Andretti Green, an Indy Racing League team, is up this year, and speculation is rife that she will jump to NASCAR, which is far more popular than the IRL … on the order of 10 to 50 times […]

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I suppose this falls into the category of random personal observation. More diary-worthy and less  blog-worthy. Or sponge-worthy.
(Obscure reference!)
I was out slogging around downtown Long Beach … and I found not one but two pennies lying in the street. Separate locations. One on Second Street. The other on First Street.
And I thought there was a […]

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This is my second full day back in Southern California.
And on my first full day back, while watching the Super Bowl, my younger brother asked me, “So what was the first thing you wanted to do when you got back?”
At that moment … I hadn’t thought about that.
Now, I have. And I’m going to do […]

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