I wasn’t expecting much when I dashed over to South Coast Plaza today to snap a few pictures of Jaime Pressly and write a few lines about her for my blog. And the fact that she was nearly an hour late made the assignment I had given myself seem even more like a mistake. I was slammed with work today — it’s always tough on Wednesdays when I have to shepherd the Daily Pilot and the Huntington Beach Independent to press. Still, I left the office with more work to do to catch the “My Name is Earl” actress at a book signing at Borders.

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Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s sense of humor is well-established here (see the Simpsonized portrait of him and his family that he made above), but when he recently decided to twist up classic-rocker Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” to do a send-up of President Obama even he didn’t realize what he’d start. Instead of mixing it up with Obama, the Republican senatorial candidate’s in a showdown with Henley. And he’s loving every second of it.

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Here’s what I really love about Facebook: You can keep track of so many lives and as a newsman it helps me stay connected to my local newsmakers. I’ve been trailing Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s campaign to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer — getting every detail as it unfolds because Chuck’s a frequent poster.

But last week I got a note from one of our “In Theory” contributors, Ric Olsen. He was giving me a heads up that he was running late with his response to the weekly question because he was having trouble with his church. He didn’t have time to get into what was going on, but he directed me to his Facebook page. I added him as a friend and saw that the city of Orange was moving to evict The Beacon, his church, over some code enforcement issue.

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