Waiter, my seat…

O Daily Pilot, I can’t resist your headlines:

Restaurant Review: Doria’s Haus of Pizza’s charm, crust fills seats

A final goodbye to Apollo Books

http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/01/15/features/dpt-closed15.txt

They held on a few months after they announced their retirement, but now it’s gone for good. The Apollo, in its original location at 18th & Newport, was a big part of my education. Others had the same experience; we found entirely new worlds in stacks of dusty paperbacks.

If I win the lottery I’m going to run a bookstore until I’m poor again.

Joe Bell on Katrina and the Great Depression

http://www.dailypilot.com/front/story/23716p-33632c.html

“In the Depression years, most of us were in the same boat, working to the same ends, helping one another. That isn’t true today — in Newport-Mesa or in the United States — and it needs to be addressed.”