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The Pop Culture Road Trip

So the country is falling apart and it seems like the most important thing on many people’s minds is who will will occupy the 1-2 judge seats on American Idol next season. If anything illustrates the low-level quality of our nation’s popular culture today, I think this may be it. Sweating out the details of…

If you’re ever passing through our city of Huntington Beach and you have the pleasure of taking your hound to our famous Dog Beach, remember my friend Martin Senat, who passed away last week. An amazing guy – here is an early look at my column dedicated to him this week. RIP, my friend.

The new Arizona immigration law (SB-1070) has found its way onto the pop culture stage courtesy of Lady Gaga, who, on Saturday, decided to use her Phoenix concert to draw attention to what she obviously feels is an unfair law: “I’ll tell you what we have to do about SB-1070. We have to be active.…

Briefly – I wrote several weeks ago about the many heartfelt notes and letters I’ve received this year in regards to some articles I wrote about Jimmy Sullivan, the drummer from the band Avenged Sevenfold. They’re based here in Huntington Beach where I live, and the Sullivan family are friends of ours. There was some…

Just west of Kingman, Arizona, charming old Route 66 climbs into the Black Mountains, becoming a winding, treacherous, nerve-wracking drive with no guardrails (just the occasional protective cable) and plenty of hairpin turns. Past filling station ruins and skeleton cars in the parched moonscape hills, motorists still white-knuckle the wheel for about 10 miles until…

Just returned from the road, where my son and I were on a dinosaur dig expedition in Utah. My son, a soon-to-be-17-year-old paleontology student, has been fascinated by prehistoric life since he was a little boy. For years we’ve gone on these trips and they are truly life-changing. Soon as I get the dust off…

Road trip to Las Vegas this past week for a book signing. On the way home to Southern California, we passed, and chuckled (as most do) at the sign for “Zzyzx Road.” Only this time, we got off and drove several miles until we found the town with the same odd name. Some background: “The…

The National League finally won last night in a fairly exciting game in Anaheim. We attended, and regardless of the outcome, there’s just something exciting about being at an event that still generates lots of buzz and attention. For all the action on the field though, for me, the most exciting moments were the day…

If you’ve followed the story, you know that what started out as an AOL Weird News article just a couple of months ago now soon became something much more. Such was the case when my opening day piece lamenting the sorry state of songwriter Jack Norworth’s grave in Anaheim touched the heart of a several fans, enough…

“He is the Francis Scott Key of baseball, and whatever you can do to preserve his memory and legacy, it’s definitely something baseball fans should get involved with.” That’s what Los Angeles Dodgers team historian Mark Langill told me last week in response to a growing movement by fans who want to preserve and honor…
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