Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

No Martians — Yet All right, relax, everyone. You too, Mary Louise. Those cryptic numerals and markings on streets and sidewalks were not made by slithering invaders from another planet plotting our destruction. Perhaps you too have seen them. Some … Continue reading →

The Scene Changes Not so long ago a group of young ladies who worked in the same downtown office met regularly for dinner at Lindy’s restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard. These were gay, informal occasions, relished by all, and even after … Continue reading →

Tell It to a Termite The savants seem determined to cram a hearty breakfast down all our gullets and this is a small, choking voice of protest. They keep saying that if people will eat hearty in the a.m. their … Continue reading →

Forgotten Heroes In the tense days of WWII and the patriotic binge that came with peace in 1945, councilmen solemnly pledged to honor the city’s war dead with a memorial of some sort. It was tentatively agreed that a living … Continue reading →

The Pinch Quota An encouraging word came out of Sacramento the other day. Bradford M. Crittenden, taking office as California Highway Patrol Commissioner, told newsmen CHP officers will not have to make a minimum of arrests each day. "Bad pinches," … Continue reading →

Diamond Discount? A businessman who last year brought four season tickets for the Dodger games decided not to repeat and has ignored several reminder letters. The other day he received a phone call from the Dodger ticket office. Was he … Continue reading →

Victims of Suburbia A young man named Steve asks if I can dig up a live hermit he can interview during Easter vacation for his B-11 American literature class at Hamilton High. I regret to report failure. An honest-to-goodness hermit … Continue reading →

Spoofing Session Those who attended the Screen Writers Awards dinner are still rolling with some of the punches the authors tossed at each other and life in Hollywood generally. The proceedings started out with a solemn oath to stamp out … Continue reading →

Highly Qualified Man It is rare in this era of conformity to encounter a gesture of defiance but that’s what we have today. It concerns a gentleman of the old school — let’s call him Sabatini — who some months … Continue reading →

Case of the Glass Dogs As always, last week’s phenomenon becomes an ordinary event this week. Remember the piece here about the Irish settler seen gnawing away at the glass window of a parked car in Coronado? Let Lucile McNeil … Continue reading →

Mayor’s a Creek That wasn’t smog around the City Hall the other day, it was a smoke signal denoting Mayor Poulson’s induction into the Creek tribe. Their ceremony was intended to make people aware of the 15,000 Indians in the … Continue reading →

A Nose Is Thumbed The National Book Award for fiction, you may have read, went to a collection of short stories, "The Magic Barrel," by Bernard Malamud, English prof at Oregon State. To short-story addicts this is a triumph indeed. … Continue reading →

Ready for Jet Age? Almost everyone who travels east and back by air these days wants to fly in the jet transports. As a result, reservations are not always easy to get. Furthermore, there are frequent delays due to minor … Continue reading →

In Sharese-Goofs Fellow humans, we’ve had it. The machines apparently have taken over. A librarian at UCLA was baffled by an incoming booklet titled "Proceedings of SHARE," written in a strange mumbo jumbo.  Example: "Ramshaw (UA) revealed that they were … Continue reading →

Just a Low Character About a year ago evidence was disclosed here indicating that Carl Foreman had written the Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" although Pierre Boule, who wrote the novel, got the salute.  If I … Continue reading →

The Case of Judge Pfaff This was the week of Superior Court Judge Roger Alton Pfaff’s great disillusionment. On receiving what he considered an unjustified speeding citation (45 in a 25) he said angrily, "In 12 years on the bench … Continue reading →

Lost Chords A PTA meeting at Center Avenue Elementary School in Inglewood opened Tuesday with a salute to the flag, after which the audience remained hushed as a Girl Scout choral group assembled for a song and the accompanist approached … Continue reading →