Because I'm at the desk and there are things to note:
- SoCal home sales tumbled in June, but prices still edged up to an all-time high.
- About 500 people attended a rally against the Santa Barbara News-Press in support of the nine journalists who resigned from the troubled paper.
- Brian Cook of the Lakers had "urgent surgery" to repair his right thumb after ripping it severely in a pickup game at Sports Club L.A. Technically it was an "open dislocation of the interphalangeal joint" and it had to hurt.
David Markland at Blogging.la found another way to beat the heat when it's 250 degrees in the Valley: bumper cars at Iceland in Van Nuys.- The Wall Street Journal announced today that it will begin running ads on the front page, probably in September.
- Beatles tribute bands The Fab Four and Fab Forever are waging war over Ringo. Tabloid Baby has the blow-by-blow, as told by "Brian Epstein."
- The connection between LAT opinion side editor Andrés Martinez and recent hire Matt Welch is explained: a mutual friend in Pittsburgh set them up.
- L.A. City Nerd explains to newbies why Silver Lake is two words.
- Flip-flop mania continues, also at Blogging.la.
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