We’re throwing a party this weekend, and most of our guests will be “of a certain age.” That would be my age, 67, and maybe a decade on either side. This means a couple of things: First, the party will begin winding down at 9 or so, and by 10 p.m. all but the hardest-core
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Once again, I was born too late. Or quit drinking too early. Because now I can’t take advantage of a great deal at Jamestown’s Old Town Barber Shop: free beer with a haircut. You read that right: At the Old Town — right across from Barendregt’s grocery store on Jimtown’s Main Street – you not
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The evidence is in: a crimson 36C bra, Lily of France perfume, a few Kessler whiskey bottles (empty), a lone Earth Spirit sandal, an LA museum’s anthropology magazine, a “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” DVD, an Old Homestead carving knife, and a prescription for Vicodin. The ingredients for a particularly kinky party? Choice items from a garage
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Here Rests a Good Car Jan. 17, 2005-March 20, 2013 Age: 187,470 miles We’ve never been much on naming cars, so I guess 2HKYF18565H535397 will have to do. That’s the VIN number for our late, well-traveled 2005 Honda Pilot, probably the best car we’ve ever owned. It put in more than 187,000 often hard, sometimes
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Running was my religion 30 years ago, and I went to church a lot. Once I put in 150 days without missing a run. At my obsession’s peak, I’d log 70 miles a week, pounding pavement in rain, wind and searing heat. I was a regular at Columbia’s 10,000-meter Old Mill Run, whose starting gun
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From reactions up in these thar hills, you’d think the USC Trojans were moving down to Division III, intent on terrorizing the Cal Tech Beavers, Whittier Poets and Pomona Sagehens. But instead it’s Sonora High that’s moving – to the Mother Lode League, where in 2014 it will likely join six neighboring Sierra foothill schools
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Who were they? And should we care? We’re talking about the seniors caught by the cops having sex in the back seat of a Ford Taurus parked at a Sonora barbecue joint last month. And doing it in broad daylight, in plain view of customers going in and out of the restaurant. In an incident
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“A thousand bucks? To fix a chicken??” My outrage echoed through the Twain Harte Veterinary Hospital lobby. A gaggle of waiting cat and dog owners looked up, suddenly alarmed that their own bills might also be unexpectedly high and perhaps put their families on all-Alpo diets for months to come. “Can this possibly be right?”
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“It doesn’t exactly roll off your tongue.” So said one critic when the Tuolumne County staff in November suggested naming a short road leading to the new Law and Justice Center site “Justice Center Drive.” County supervisors delayed their decision for a month, professing to be open to more engaging, mellifluous suggestions from the public.
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This year it came early. Tuolumne County enjoyed its annual 15 minutes of fame on Feb. 12, when a woman, 72, and a man, 62, were caught by the cops naked and having sex in the back seat of a Ford Taurus. They were cited for indecent exposure. That the couple was nabbed in
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