The SoCal Byte

The Curse of Time Warner Revisited

It’s a messed-up game. Boston had the Curse of the Bambino. Chicago had the Curse of the Billy Goat. Los Angeles has the Curse of Time Warner. Here’s to a good long run for the game.

LSD and the Flaw in the Fabric

Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at Zurich University recently discovered that LSD changes a person’s sense of meaning. Under the spell of Lysergic acid diethylamide, significance can be involuntarily added to events. This change in meaning takes place due to the stimulation of certain serotonin receptors not only during an acid trip, but after — in-other-words, with LSD, personal change may be permanent.

Shut Up, Vin Scully

Life was complete for the golly-gee-whiz Reagan-loving Hall of Fame broadcaster except for one thing: Scully forgot how to use his voice.

Vin Scully Day

Before Vin Scully retires, the Dodgers need to designate a series of special days — one every homestand — when Scully’s voice can to be heard at the stadium for an entire game again.

It Is What It Is

Whether from defeat or repetition, today, the use of “It is what it is” has dropped dramatically.