I may be a dork of great magnitude. Because I recently became pretty excited when I learned that Jeff Bridges was a surfer.
I mean, it just seemed so right: The guy who played The Dude in “The Big Lebowski” – and a penguin named Big Z in “Surf’s Up” — just had to surf.
An avid […]
Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Pat
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Though he was often portrayed as a typical California surfer dude, Kato Kaelin wasn’t ever a surfer. In fact, he wasn’t even from California.
He had ventured out to California from Wisconsin, with dreams of playing baseball at Cal State Fullerton. When he found the baseball studs at Cal State too intense for him, he concentrated […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Pat
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Though he was often portrayed as a typical California surfer dude, Kato Kaelin wasn’t ever a surfer. In fact, he wasn’t even from California.
He had ventured out to California from Wisconsin, with dreams of playing baseball at Cal State Fullerton. When he found the baseball studs at Cal State too intense for him, he concentrated […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Pat
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Before he ever donned a bag on his head and called himself the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston was a computer operator hoping to break into show business. When he asked what he had to do to get on the show “Laugh-In,” he was told, “Do something unusual and call us.”
So for his first ever TV […]
Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Pat
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Every now and then someone will ask me, “Would you cover a war if you had the opportunity?”
It’s a good question. After all, for a journalist, covering a war represents a chance to make your mark – to do something meaningful. Meanwhile, you’re doing something exciting, creating stories you can one day share with your […]
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Pat
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Ever since I interviewed Chris Hillman, the former bassist for the Byrds, I’ve been thinking about funerals.
Not that it was a morbid interview. It’s just that “Turn! Turn! Turn!” — one of the Byrds’s most famous songs — tends to be a popular burial primer. And it got me thinking about other songs that would […]
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Pat
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Every now and then we interview someone whose career is so packed that’s it’s difficult to summarize all the key points in one newspaper feature.
Fortunately, we have this blog, so I can tell you more about Chris Hillman, former member of the Byrds, who will perform in Nipomo on Saturday.
Here are a few highlights from […]
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Pat
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