My friend Greg lives on Mount Washington, looking down on much of Los Angeles. He and his friends are all musicians, and we BBQd and played and listened and talked yesterday and last night. I've known him since 1985. He's a great musician and a good friend ( Read more... )

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After a pleasant meal of spaghetti & turkey meatballs and a green salad with gordonzola [sic] cheese and tomatoes, I'm relaxing as I listen to the neighborhood freakin' explode. It gets louder every year. The mortars have moved east of the Boulevard finally and I also heard gunfire, which is not cool ( Read more... )

My friend and veteran journalist Joseph Bell gives you his Independence Day column.

http://www.dailypilot.com/columns/story/17272p-24159c.html

Go ahead, you tell the 80+-year-old WWII combat veteran he's disloyal. Old guys rule.