- Website
- http://www.vernnelson.com
- Description
- Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official political troubadour of Anaheim and most other OC towns. Regularly makes solo performances, sometimes with his savage-jazz band The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
Runner up that guy who rushed the Bondi Beach killer. I guess that makes two Muslims!
Person of the year for 2025? Zohran Mamdani! Other nominees?
In an effort to continue to hide Trump’s sedition on January 6 as well as his criminal mishandling of classified…
I know.
Oh I was addressing the anonymous critic.
Now is a good time to remind everyone of the excellent reporting on Bari Weiss that John Oliver did on…
Why bother?
For what it's worth, the Register is finally covering this. https://www.ocregister.com/2025/12/30/parents-file-claim-against-anaheim-alleging-excessive-force-in-fatal-shooting-of-son-by-police/?utm_email=8523042DB559841FD546342943&lctg=8523042DB559841FD546342943&active=yesD&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Story+Button&utm_campaign=scng-orange_county_register-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
The graffiti? It's on the fucking APD "Critical Incident Report" video. How come you never saw it? You couldn't prove…
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![Mayor Tait chooses his Reform Team: KRING AND LEOS. [Update – Oct 10 forum CANCELLED.] . Just think what reformist Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait could accomplish in the next two years, if he had two allies on council he could work with – if, instead […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kring-tait-leos-115x115.jpg)
![Meet Huntington Beach’s Tim “Make mine a double” Ryan. . What do you think about all these political candidates this year who are trying so hard, with varying degrees of success or failure, to put off their embarrassing civil […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tim-ryan-mimi-walters-115x115.jpg)

![Daly’s sole opponent, Joe Moreno, hounded out of race. Hatch Act and Prop 14 both suck ass. . Well, SORRY, to any of you who live in Santa Ana or central Anaheim who kinda wanted to have a choice of who to vote for to represent you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/daly-x-moreno-115x115.jpg)
![405 tolls: Campbell flings “Hail Mary Pass,” Moorlach decries “Chinese Water Torture,” Can kicked hard. . Down for the count? No, the 405 Toll Lane Option known as Alternative 3 is not quite “down for the count.” It’s down for the moment, far from the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/history-of-violence-crook-down-115x115.jpg)
![The Mishegas and the Desmadre: Eye-popping news as Anaheim Simmers! (Bulletin 1) . The Mishegas and the Desmadre: Anaheim Bulletin issue 1 This issue: The Pérez Family WINS, the war against illegal Anaheim foreclosures continues! Celebration tonight! Council Candidates John Leos and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/leos-duane-rufina-115x115.jpg)
![OCTA says WE just need some more “education,” LOL. And, introducing the Orange Juice Option! The second public speaker at Monday’s OCTA highway committee meeting (after Fountain Valley Mayor John Collins’ furious, righteous scolding of OCTA staff for dismissing the official opposition of the six […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ocbc-on-freeway-traffic-115x115.png)
![Anaheim’s Epidemic of Illegal Foreclosures, the Great American Pérez Family, and the Class War Against Most of Us . . The eyes of 24-year old dance instructor and Army vet Rufina Pérez flash, even more than usual. “We may lose this battle, my family and I, but we […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Perez-Rose-Petals-115x115.jpg)
![OCTA to Toll Lane Opponents: “Fine, NO FREEWAY WIDENING FOR YOU!” If you can go way, way, back in your mind – back a month or two, to just before Anaheim exploded – you might remember that the pinheaded bureaucrats of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/soup-nazi-115x115.jpg)
![Jim Reardon takes Capistrano Unified School District in a rough love embrace! . . Have you heard of Jim Reardon? Have you heard of the Capistrano Unified School District? How about the strange relationship Jim seems to have with the district, on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/reardon-cusd-logo-cropped-115x115.jpg)
![Chavez-Lodge tries to disown Jordan Brandman, otherwise bamboozles OC GOP. . Wednesday night, after partially prevailing in Cynthia Ward’s ballot designation lawsuit against him, corporatist Anaheim Council candidate and Sudden Mexican Steven Albert “Chavez” Lodge showed up asking for the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/brandman-lodge-modified-cropped-115x115.jpg)
![His Name is “Albert Chavez,” but Don’t Call Him a Cop: Split Decision in Lodge-Ward Hearing . Vern asked from just outside the Superior Court courtroom of Judge Margines, where one is not supposed to be blogging, that this report be posted: Juice friend Cynthia Ward […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/brandman-lodge-cropped-115x115.jpg)
![It just gets better: Steve “Chavez” Lodge vs. Cynthia Ward showdown! . . Fun stuff, fun stuff. This Murietta carpetbagger and Sudden Mexican, this Disney-Pringle candidate for Anaheim City Council, this Steven Albert “Chavez” Lodge, has decided to spend the twelve […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/lodge-ward-cropped-115x115.jpg)
That sounds like the start of a joke.