- 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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![Breaking – Mubarak buggers off, leaves armed forces in charge! . . . Just wanted Juice readers to be the first to know. Let’s get the rest from the Guardian’s most knowledgeable Tariq Ali: A joyous night in Cairo. What […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Egyptian-anti-government-006-155x155.jpg)
![“My GPS shanghai’d me into a mall, and so I went Shopping.” . . . Well, not me, actually, I would never use a GPS (Global Positioning System.) Not even when I get my license back. When I rejoined civilization back in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gps-garmin-155x155.jpg)
![Brown Kiboshes Arnold’s “Sleasing” Scheme. Fairgrounds Sale Next? . . . Good news for California taxpayers, their kids, and their grandkids. Oh wait. You still don’t know what “SLEASING” is? The term was coined by this blog for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/jerry-brown-1-155x155.jpg)
![PATRIOT Act extension defeated! And Loretta’s statement… . . . Well… there’s only so much you can fit into a headline. It was actually the nine-month extension of three of the more egregious parts of the egregious […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/shawshank-redemption-155x155.jpg)
![Gus Ayer on the Fairgrounds Swindlers: “Shit. Meet Fan.” . . . It’s been a pretty good week for us blogger/activists who’ve been tirelessly fighting corruption in this County with no help from either our As-Good-As-No-DA-DA or the mainstream […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gus-ayer-155x155.png)
![The Compleat Vern Tour VIDEOS (from Pacific Symphony’s “OC Can You Play” project) . . . (at the Great Park piano) As the Orange Juice Blog’s contribution to the Pacific Symphony’s “OC Can You Play” series, our editor-in-chief played all twenty painted pianos […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/vern-plays-great-park-piano-e1515193084873-115x115.jpg)
![Classic! See Stanislav Fiala sing “I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends” with Vern, at Santa Ana’s Artists’ Village. . . . You guys shouldn’t have mised this. You might remember that our madcap Czech commenter Stanislav Fiala challenged me to do a duet with him at the Santa […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fiala-2.jpg)

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![Tim Whitacre releases his “ALL-IN” Platform for OC GOP. . . . As Monday’s election for Orange County GOP chair draws close, challenger and former Orange Juice blogger Tim Whitacre has released a, I’ll call it a stirring manifesto. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/whitacre-155x155.jpg)
That sounds like the start of a joke.