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The Name Game: Angelina Jolie's Latest Kid
my favorite "unusual" name is Rudy Martinez. Perhaps he might be better known to some a ?, as in ? and the mysterians. I believe he legally changed his name well before their 1 hit 96 Tears. So forget about Prince and his little symbol, Rudy (?) was the first.— July 15, 2008 12:48 p.m.
The Name Game: Angelina Jolie's Latest Kid
Muhammad is the most common name in the world, in it's various spellings. I'm sure that some people out there would say that isn't a "white enough" name for them or it's too "unusual". But since the population of the US is only about .05% of the world's population, I guess our self centered opinions really mean much to the rest of the world, do they. Roughly tranlated, Muhammad means one worthy of praise. What's wrong with naming your kid that? BTW #22, have you noticed how much like johnnyvegas josh is? It seems he likes to take a small amount of fact and mix it in with his own personal point of view and poof, it becomes the new fact. Josh professes to be a writer full-time but he's merely blogging here , so he doesn't care about quality or accuracy. Sound familiar??— July 15, 2008 12:37 p.m.
Administration Wants To Bail Out Wall Street Through Massive Subsidy of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. But Market Not Buying It
Johnnyvegas, what exactly do you mean by a "run on a bank" Are you simply reffering to a bunch of people lining up to get their money out of a bank that's been taken over by the FDIC? It happens quite a bit actually. Their have been scores of banks that have failed with deposits ranging from a few million to several billion. As for people lining up to get their money, I would imagine it happens most of the time to one degree or another. And speaking from personal experience, when a bank I did business with in L.A. had problems about 5 or 6 years ago, the FDIC followed almost the same script; the state closed the bank closed on Friday, put it into receivership with the FDIC and it reopened for business on Monday. And I can tell you I was one of at least a couple of hundred people who were there when it reopened.I will grtant you that this is the largest and probably the most expensive bank failure, at least so far, but it is definately NOT the only "run" on a bank since 1929. As far as your "prediction" that "there are several more banks that are going to fail soon", I am guessing that you're just making another Johnnyvegas generalization based on the comments that their is some kind of "watchlist" of 90 banks that the feds are keeping their eyes on. If I'm wrong about that then tell us all which banks you, all knowing one, think are going to fail.— July 15, 2008 12:06 p.m.
The Name Game: Angelina Jolie's Latest Kid
My my my!! A "journalist" stooping to name calling because he gets a response he doesn't like. How professional of you.!!! Where did I comment on whether or not you liked your name? I simply asked the origin of your name since you apparently were questioning the origin of names names other people have given their children. I was also correcting some of your misinformation, such as it was Talullah Willis who changed her name to Lula at age 13 with her parents permission, your mispelling of some names and pointing out some well known reasons why some celebrities gave unusual names to their children, without commenting on whether I thought they were " normal sounding" as you put it. You said "A kid that has a one parent that acts and another that's a musician, probably has a 3.8% chance of having a normal name." So you're saying she, " Apple" ,has an abnormal name? You also said "if you're telling me it's insenstive to make fun of that, i contend...the child won't read this" I agree 100% that probably none of the celebrities or their children the you mentioned will read your column. So what you're saying is that it is perfectly ok for you, as a "journalist" to make fun of somebody because they won't read what you write? From my point of view that seems to be a warped perspective of your responsibilities as a "journalist". As a "journalist", I would think it would behoove you not to take your readers responses quite so personally. If you put as much effort into spelling peoples names correctly and making sure your "facts" correct, as you put into your response, you wouldn't receive replies like mine in the first place. By the way, I use the nickname Trestles quite often. It is derived from 2 things: I have been surfing at trestles for over 30 years and I am active in the SAVE TRESTLES movement.— July 14, 2008 3:07 p.m.
The Name Game: Angelina Jolie's Latest Kid
#8 not criticizing you even though you said "He goes by "Todd" now, I hear" Just giving a correction. Grace never had a son, only a daughter.— July 14, 2008 2:20 p.m.
The Name Game: Angelina Jolie's Latest Kid
Actually it's Frances Bean Cobain. Grace Slick had a daughter with Paul Kantner. Her name is China. Her being named god is an urban myth dispelled numerous times by both mother and daughter. Chynna Phillips was born 3 years earlier and according to Grace, the similarity is purely coincidental. Chynna's half sister is Bijou Phillips. The name "Bijou", which is French for "jewel," was taken from the song "My Petite Bijou". It's pretty common knowledge Ahmet Zappa was named after Ahmet Ertegün; you should know who he was. Diva was so named because she was screaming louder than all the other babies in the hospital nursery. And Dweezil, as odd as it is, was a nickname coined by Frank Zappa for an oddly-curled pinky-toe of his wife Gail. Apple Blythe Alison Martin (It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and … clean! And I just thought, "Perfect!") goes by Blythe, after her grandmother.Her second child's name is Moses, named after a song her husband wrote for her in 2003. At least you could get the spelling and the ACTUAL names correct. You must be really be stuck for a subject if all you can come up with is picking on kid's names. By the way, what kind of name is Josh antway. Sounds like somrthing a wanna be singer or actor would change his name to.— July 14, 2008 12:18 p.m.
With $6 Million Gift, David Copley Endows UCLA Center for Costume Design
He probably gave the money to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television because of their reputation as a training ground for people going into the theater, film and television professions. Copley is also into old time Hollywood, especially costumes for some reason. Or it could be they were the only ones who would put his name on a building?— June 26, 2008 7:25 p.m.
PB Police Prepare for Beach Booze Ban
# 5: "The trial alcohol ban has moved the taxpaying citizens who want to enjoy a BBQ and Beer at our beaches, bays and parks into their houses and backyards! What a joke." So what's wrong with partying at your own house or in your own yard. If you spend all day enjoying BBQ and Beer at the beach, then chances are you're too intoxicated to drive home from the beach. I live 2 blocks from the beach, and while I would enjoy a few beers around a fire pit at sundown, I can walk home not drive home. And I have no problem having the bbq in my yard instead of the at the beach. But FREEPB is predicting anarchy in the streets of PB on the Fourth. I can already see the hoardes of drunks running thru the streets wreaking havock, demanding their freedom to get drunk in public, leaving a path of distruction in their wake. And I'm sure VinnyPaesano will be along for the ride.— June 20, 2008 12:40 p.m.
Our Idiotic Legal System (the anti-Fred and Rickey Says blog)
quote from #4 "The OC case was where a HS edcuated cop used excessive force over a minor incident." OK johnnyvegas. You're a lawyer and this is a court, the court of public opinion. What proof do you have and who is your source for the information on this cops educational backround? Give us the specifics. What high school did the officer graduate from, what year, how do you know he has not attended college,? Put up or shut up. Prove that you know by giving the facts or just admit you are making another one of your "welfare queen" generalizations because of your hatred for public servants. BTW I agree the award was outrageous, but I also don't believe pd are allowed to use deadly force to catch a fleeing suspect unless his flight is endangering themsevles or the public. I'm pretty sure running someone down with a vehicle is considered deadly force; at least it is if you or I would try to run over a cop or two.— June 20, 2008 12:18 p.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
In 1999, The LA Times published a special Sunday magazine devoted to the Staples Center. The Times had agreed to share the profits from the issue with Staples Center as part of a complicated arrangement by which The Times became a "founding partner" of the arena. When Otis Chandler found out he issued a statement that included the folowing: ..."If a newspaper, even a great newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, loses credibility with its community, with its readers, with its advertisers, with its shareholders, that is probably the most serious circumstance that I can possibly envision. Respect and credibility for a newspaper is irreplaceable." Even having been almost 15 yrs removed from an active role in the paper, Chandler cared deeply about how The Times was regarded. I can't fathom anything like this coming from David Copley. It's pretty obvious he cares nothing about his "moral and ehtical duty" to the paper.— June 12, 2008 10:42 a.m.