What a treat! KCRW’s  David Kleinbart got much more that he bargained for when he and his wife went to Santa Anita for the horse races! David writes…

Fab Fairlanes… boss Bel-Airs… magnificent Mercs…
As I write this, Weekend Edition Sunday’s Liane Hansen is playing a clip from Commander Cody’s “Hot Rod Lincoln.”  How fitting!
Connie and I joined some friends at Santa Anita last Sunday, unaware that all the usual horse power would be augmented by a show featuring horsepower of a different kind.  I brought my …

It has been a few days since my last post – sorry about that.  It’s the winter pledge drive at KCRW, a very busy time for everybody that works at the station.
I was talking to one the volunteers that came in to answer phones -I LOVE our volunteers- she asked me, “What is the weirdest thing you have ever reported?”
“Actually” I said, “There are 2 things I never thought I would hear myself say on the air ”
“…and taking a look at the traffic in Hollywood, there is a hazard …

I was heading home after work. I report the traffic for NPR’s All Things Considered on KCRW. I was driving up Malibu Canyon. It was winter time. I was snaking around Pepperdine and the Hughes Research Complex. It was early but dark. And then, out of nowhere kaboom! A deer jumped on my car! Right onto the hood! I didn’t hit him. Literally, it was like he fell from the sky. You know the yellow diamond caution signs that read Watch for Falling Rocks? Well, CalTrans should add another sign to their repertoire…Watch for …