Orange County Register: Asked recently about a possible run against U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer when his term ends in 2010, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he'll skip that race and await amendment of the U.S. Constitution–meaning he's eying the presidency. Looking at his latest approval ratings, I guess Arnie does not plan on carrying California. . . . It's obvious Orange County needs more resources to fight wildfires, but fire agencies are instead cutting back due to funding woes. . . . If you're doing the Friday night HB Main Street pub crawl (Perq's, Hurricanes, Sharkeez, the wall against El Don Liquor Store, etc.), beware. . . . Speaking of falling off the pier, a 2-year-old boy (who apparently had not just done the pub crawl) survived a 20-foot dive off the structure–and lived to poop his pants about it! . . . Even if you are older than 2 and did not imbibe at Main Street watering holes, it'll be easier to get swept off the pier tonight thanks to off-season Santa Anas.
Los Angeles Times: Speaking of Huntington Beach-area watering holes, Huntington Harbour hosted a 40ish woman's corpse overnight. Deputies on the scene this morning were trying to determine if she is related to vomit and a pool of blood discovered across the street next to Sunset Beach's Turc's bar. . . . Uh, welcome to the week-old story, LA Times. . . . T.J. Simers: For its annual March meeting, the NFL is roughing it at the St. Regis in Dana Point–to talk about tough economic times. Hey, stop laughing! This is, of course, the same monied resort where AIG officials rang up more than $400,000 one weekend last September after the company received federal bail-out money.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.