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Blogging in LA: dirty thoughts
losanjealous has got the Top 30 Facts on local newsanchor Chuck Henry. #21, 22 and 26 tie for our favorites.
Porto's, the busiest Cuban bakery anywhere (well, in Glendale, at least) has decided to try to ease its immense lines by opening in Burbank, Franklin Avenue reports. They like the tres leches cakes; we're fond of the potato balls. God, you just can't type "potato balls" without it sounding dirty.
Speaking of dirty, writer Neal Pollack channels Oprah's internal thoughts during the Frey interview (which sound very Deadwood to us) and then spins off in a million little directions, like: "If I were to write a Memoir of my Drug Addiction, it would be called, I Smoked Pot And Sent A Silly Email To My Ex-Girlfriend, And Then I Watched Futurama For A While."
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