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John Boston | The Answer to SoCal’s Current Wildfire Crises

Many years ago, I met this tech exec at the nosebleed levels of Microsoft management. Wish there was flirtation to spice up the story. Sorry....

31.01.2025 1

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John Boston | City Hall’s New Eyesore of Giant White Salamis

Old-timers love to wax nostalgic about the good old days, how beauty and poetry flew lazily across the Santa Clarita Valley, like butterflies and...

24.01.2025 5

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John Boston | Fortine’s SSA# & Bodice Pals on Facebook

So it’s no big secret. I’m on Facebook. I keep up with the goings-on of old and dear high school chums, former workplace clock watchers and...

17.01.2025 4

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John Boston | The Annual 2024 (‘ish’) Palmdale Christmas Letter

DEAR FAM & LOOSELY ASSOCIATED FELONS — Drat I know I’m later than an Antelope Valley junior college teen bride sans moral compass with our annual...

03.01.2025 3

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John Boston | ‘Suddenly,’ It Somehow Isn’t 1954 in Newhall

I am forever wealthy for the memories I’ve built in this Santa Clarita, from being a skinny and lost kid here in the 1950s, living in the old hotel...

20.12.2024 5

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John Boston | ‘Pah-don Me,’ on the Lone Prairie, Mr. President …

I am a complete knucklehead for attempting to share a physical impersonation in a poorly written text commentary. So. What else is new? One of my...

13.12.2024 3

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John Boston | A Caveat re: Pulling Our SCV Together

Since I was a kid, writing for this most amazing, unique and eclectic swashbuckling newspaper, I’ve viewed The Mighty Signal’s editorials as...

22.11.2024 4

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John Boston | L.U.S.T. and My Overdue GOP Tantrum

Unlucky and woeful me. I never got the memo. That was four years ago when Joe Biden, the absolute moron sandwich-eating worst leader since Vlad the...

15.11.2024 2

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John Boston | Tush. Shush. Let’s Have a Day of Quiet.

My daughter and I are not mall people. Or Disneyland people. We like music, but not noise. It was about 10 years ago when we were at the Northridge...

08.11.2024 3

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John Boston | I’m Part of an Ongoing Investigation

Here I am, so close to middle age. I so could have used this expression in school, at work, in relationships, when pulled over far too many times...

18.10.2024 2

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John Boston | ‘I’m Just a Bartender, on a 3-Hour Tour’

I don’t know if Ricky Deising slept with one of Genghis Khan’s wives in a previous life to warrant banishment to South Russia or if Ricky D’s the...

04.10.2024 2

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John Boston | $300 to Rent a Mailbox, 73¢ to Mail a Letter

My first instinct is to point a gnarled index finger at just — SOMEBODY. With email, texts, UPS, FedEx, the 21st century forest deity of...

20.09.2024 2

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John Boston | My 1st Cigarette & My Very Last Stinkpot Cigar

It lay abandoned, on the department store floor, toy aisle if memory serves. I pretty much lived The Childhood Unsupervised and was in third grade....

06.09.2024 1

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John Boston | Names of Places & People We’ve Long Forgotten

My daughter was home for a scant three weeks and one of our favorite things is to run errands around the valley where I can bore her to tears with...

30.08.2024 1

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John Boston | O Rare and Unhyphenated Ben Shapiro

DEAR BEN SHAPIRO — Thank you, sir, for testifying, with Cyrano-like elan, before Congress recently about liberal censorship. You and I point out...

23.08.2024 1

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John Boston | The High Holy Sanctuary of a Dark Screen

Back when I was little, I fretted about existential crises, like would I be required to smoke cigarettes as a grown-up, or, how, or, more...

16.08.2024 9

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John Boston | What Bears & Iron Man Do in the Woods

I swim. Regularly. I actually cheat-swim in that sometimes I use small swim flippers, which makes the difference of racing through the water in an...

09.08.2024 1

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John Boston | Making a Case for Healthy Intolerance

Right off the bat, here’s two competing concepts. Each day, each moment, is filled with uncountable blessings. We take in life-giving breaths...

02.08.2024 4

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John Boston | In Praise of Tall Trees and Latchkey Kids

I’m long past my tree-climbing days, but that doesn’t stop me from staring. From my office huge picture window, I often slouch, put my feet up and...

19.07.2024 1

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John Boston | The Soothing & Pretend World of Jed Bartlet

I am a 21st-century man, unable to free myself from my computer. I write books and columns, edit videos and am in the midst of starting yet another...

12.07.2024 1

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