Universal CityWalk Cinemas Stadium 19 IMAX
Los Angeles, California
Best movie theater decor in town
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Cheering myself up: Christopher Walken dancing, singing … stripping
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The dog who ran with the desert pigs
One of the many sloppy sentimental behaviors that I have demonstrated towards my two dogs over the years has been to croon to either girl that she always has been the “dog of my dreams.”
Lola has just stared at me patiently, waiting for the moment to pass, but whenever I have gazed into Red Dog’s big brown eyes, she invariably has broken the mood violently by affectionately trying to lick my nose.
Yesterday morning, the unrelenting face-licker and most playful of dogs, died. Up until her last night on earth, I was still wrestling Red Dog for possession of deteriorating tennis balls, still having to go re-roll the toilet paper in one of the bathrooms that she had gleefully spun off of the holder, and still playing hide-and-seek with her up and down stairways.
She was probably 13-years-old. We don’t really know her age because one of my best friends found her wandering hungry and thirsty on an Arizona highway when she was about 2 or 3. The dog became the third member of a canine pack allowed to wander unmolested through a 20-acre property in the desert. However, she also created her own pack by befriending a group of wild javelinas with whom she ran on a regular basis (A javelina looks like something you get if you mated a Vietnamese pig with a Tasmanian Devil).
No one ever officially gave her a name. Because this wasn’t the first dog to be rescued by the Arizona family, she remained without a monniker until a home could be found for her. That had not happened after a year, and the family members just kept referring to her as the “Red Dog,” because of her stunning auburn coat.
Red Dog would have permanently remained in Arizona, but, unfortunately, she drove her adoptive family nuts.
“Do you want another dog?” queried my friend Martha somewhat desperately over the telephone more than once, “This dog whines all the time. She needs too damn much attention.”
“Bring her to The House of High Need,” I finally said.
Red Dog and Martha both got what they craved. After Red was deposited here, the dog instantly received 99.9 percent of the petting she sought. If she howled because we had stopped scratching her or giving her our undivided attention, we simply laughed and howled right back at her, leaving her blinking and stupefied.
And quiet for a while.
We all absolutely adored her.
It was terrible to get up this morning and not find Red Dog parked beside my bed, her eyes springing open, her ears up, the minute she thought I was showing signs of alertness. My husband is lucky — for once — to be swamped with work this week, and my son university schoolwork, following his return to northern California after the long holiday season visit.
Lola and I, who remain at home, are going to have to work a little harder at not missing our fallen friend. I think we will use this opportunity to take some long walks, snorting and sniffing our way through the neighborhood with new fascination.
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Unlikely
Very, very, unlikely …. but …. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
Quick now, voracious readers, from what book is that quote, and who wrote it?
(Hint: it has nothing to do with the license plate or its sentiment)
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Finally, a use for all those tote bags
“I like your bag,” said the housewife as she pushed her shopping cart full of groceries and one female toddler past me on her way from the supermarket to her car.
I liked my bag too. It was a Spiderman tote that I had picked up in gross quantities at my local 99¢ Only Store about a month before the Los Angeles County law banning plastic shopping bags went into effect.
Not that I lack tote bags. I must have 20 or 30 of them floating throughout my house in varying strengths and sizes, all of them printed with advertising or spouting big thoughts. But the idea of loading my food into Spiderman bags tickled me. Besides, I didn’t want to cough up the 10¢ per brown paper bag the markets now are charging for bags that once were free.
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America’s Next Top storm troopers
Le Cute 2
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Le cute
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I just get help loading the dishwasher when I throw a fit
The Cherpumple
Leave it to a woman who recently participated in a triathlon to take on the challenge of completing a Cherpumple, a towering three-layer cake with an entire pie baked inside every one of those cake layers.
Each New Year’s Eve, KPCC Public Insight journalist Sharon McNary and her husband, Variety reporter Dave McNary, hold a celebration with a loose theme; this year it was OccuPie, with a big emphasis on pie.
During a time when she also was cleaning, preparing plates of food for the event — she’s a great cook — and probably throwing the things in closets because company is coming, Sharon also spent three days baking the Cherpumple, a finicky creation that is famous for breaking apart and collapsing.
Naturally, Sharon’s did not; Sharon’s would not (Sharon not only finished the prestigious Kona Ironman World Championship in October, but she trained while nursing an arm broken six weeks before the event).
On New Year’s Eve, Sharon McNary’s Cherpumple not only stood, but survived being cut without falling over. Well, for a while at least.
It also was very good and 3/4 of it was gone before by midnight because it contained cherry pie, apple, pie, pumpkin pie, strawberry cake, spice cake and lemon cake. It was a lot.
To live vicariously through the assemblage of a Cherpumple, visit the Youtube video produced by the cake-pie’s inventor, Charles Phoenix. He has a website where you can view the successes and failures of those who have tried to reproduce the monster dessert in various flavors and combinations.
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