The O.C. Weekly's Best of the O.C. Weekly's Staff's Drinking Buddies Issue

[substitute]

I shouldn't expect too much from the free weekly paper in a rich flat right-wing suburb fifty miles south of Los Angeles, but I'm very disappointed in the Orange County Weekly's "Best of O.C." issue. It's an unreadable mess of office in-jokes, arch post-ironic snark, inaccuracies, logrolling, and delusions of grandeur. It is, in short, the Waiting

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blue blood

[alienhand]

Sweet Jesus Christ. I didn't think ppl actually had conversations like these, let alone admit to them publicly..

"I even had a blood sworn oath with my buddies to never move east of the 405."

I suppose it is the Yang to our vows of never having a deskjob.

Re: blue blood

[substitute]

It's like the Irvine version of Sex and the City. With, you know, no city.

Scary monsters, super freaks.

[eris_devotee]

...getting on her high horse and activizing all over the county. Still, she’s the quiet type who does the grunt work that needs to be done rather than spouting off and speechifying.

I'd like to kill the person that wrote that. Not because of the sentiment, but because no one using activizing and speechifying should be allowed in print as an author.

[klikitak]

Do I smell a Letter to the Editor? Yes I do!

[seriesfinale]

Still, she’s the quiet type who does the grunt work that needs to be done rather than spouting off and speechifying.

And then she goes on to spout off and "speechify" for the rest of the article.

[hep]

I dunno, I like hearing and reading people's opinions on best-of stuff, and I like reading differing opinions included even more. Our weeklies up here do it sometimes as well. But I like finding out what people in the bay area prefer about this city compared to what I like. Mostly so I can feel superior to them with my perfect taste

[substitute]

A real "best of" issue can be great for that. Some of the LA Weekly's have been both informative and hilarious.