Gentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering digital programming until we can again organize groups to gather and explore the city we love. In 2018, we celebrated the return of two treasures of Downtown Los Angeles to useful service as residential buildings, when the Healthy Housing Foundation purchased the largely vacant King Edward and Baltimore hotels from developer Shomof Group. Although a binding covenant requires the rooms in many old hotels be rented out to low-income tenants, and tens of thousands of people struggle to survive on the streets outside, our corrupt City Council does nothing to make property owners abide by the law.

Just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the baseball playoff contest known as “the Bartman game,’’ “The Bear” – an award-winning TV show about a fictional Chicago restaurant – serves up an irresistible homage to the poor Cubs fan forever linked to the last Miami Marlins championship season. We’re talking about Steve Bartman, the bespectacled dude with headphones who reached for a baseball on an October night at Wrigley Field in 2003, setting off a series of events that doomed the Cubs.

A little known company named Brilliant Light Power has been developing a revolutionary hydrogen-based energy technology for the last 30 years. The technology harnesses a reaction that catalyzes the transition of hydrogen to a lower-energy state. It releases roughly 200 times the energy of combusting hydrogen on a per atom basis. Think Fire 2.0. This lower energy state has been dubbed “Hydrino” by Dr. Randell L. Mills, who theoretically predicted the state and experimentally verified its existence.

I imagine there was a sort of collective breath-holding as Alma LeVant Hayden gingerly opened the small ampule, surrounded by a team of experts the government had assembled. This was far more ceremony than usually afforded the testing of an unknown substance, but that’s because this was no ordinary substance. This was something a small group of doctors had convinced the nation was a miracle cancer cure-all, yet the contents of which they refused to divulge.

Warnings: Incredibly racist movie where they shoot God with a gun. Long read because I couldn’t get the recap any shorter. Heidi Montag. Father, forgive them, they knew not what they were doing.  Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) is a movie where a masked-up hit squad travels back in time, mows down Roman guards in the Garden of Gethsemane, and puts a .45 in Jesus’ head in the first act. We’re not even halfway into the nearly two-hour film, and they’ve put down the King of Kings like Old Yeller.