Nutty Flavor Blog

A flitter here - The Cut.  Flitter there and it's Variety.  It hasn't been People for a while so maybe they're next in rotation.   Oh, and building the playground.  Kaboom is actually pretty big and known nationally trying to help increase the activity levels of kids.  Great.  Uvalde is great, I get it but I cannot help but wonder if there would be some equally deserving places in LA. Closer to home.  Closer to local eyes (especially if there could be some sort of political something some time).   Each participation  always seems to be something in a new direction from the last one - not settling and doing a deep dive into a single subject but more like skipping stones on a pond - shallow taps which drop.  Quietly. The participation is lauded far and wide.  And how much they participated in getting it to happen is not disclosed. Ever.  If the financials get released, that would be an interesting read.  But numbers? that's boring stuff compared to the fun of trying to fi

The Valentine Low book will be out in a day or two.  The USA release is late January so it will miss the December holiday rush.  Too bad.   We have already had a few excerpts from it.  Goodness knows what else is there lurking in the pages waiting to confirm the suspecting mind or shock the unprepared mind who hasn't been following this saga. While we wait, it got me thinking about all the things which we weren't seeing a couple of years ago about the 5's but now are.   This and the Tom Bower books - nope.  They are dense, detailed and full of unflattering information about the couple.  The early yet critical books really stop short of spilling anything really specific like these do. Before the Queen's death, people started showing up to events, holding signs and booing the couple.  And, it was the news about that event most of the time.   Or that someone declined to have their hand shaken by her.  Wow.  That's a quantum shift from the picture perfect hug and compli