The Time Ranger | Indians, Banditos & Mouse Shoots Man
March 21, 2026 1:22 am
You might notice that big, huge commercial blue trash bin at the end of the stables. Do drop your excuses about how you need to sleep in and recover from
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John Boston | The Good Ol’ Pornographic USA Movie
March 20, 2026 4:05 am
I blew myself out of the water last Sunday. It was late afternoon that I learned the Oscars were on that night. I hardly go to movies anymore. I’ll watch
The Time Ranger | Pumas, Obits & The Great St. Francis Dam Disaster
March 14, 2026 1:10 am
This week’s trail ride marks one of this valley’s top claims to, if not fame, then infame. This marks the 98th anniversary of the great St. Francis Dam Disaster — the second-worst thing to happen to Californians in history and
John Boston | Yes. There IS Life After the Cell Phone …
March 13, 2026 10:07 am
For the first time since the Pleistocene, I was without cellphone for a few days. It was both 19.6 on the Richter Hysterical Yuppie Sissy Scale, and, heaven. I was
The Time Ranger | Rats, Lynchings & California’s First Gold Discovery — Or, Was It …?
March 7, 2026 12:25 am
Hope you all are having a fine Saturday morning. We have a great little adventure ahead of us, including the great discovery of gold in this here valley, and a band of Protestant lynchers
John Boston | The New Iran Peace Accords with Old Persia
March 6, 2026 3:36 am
DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP — Hi! I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Bob. Bob Ali. Subordinate Holy Lance Private and The People’s Most Blindingly Revered Ayatollah No. 37, Supreme Leader Of
The Time Ranger | Pre-Antifa & The Murder of Beautiful ‘Town Tart,’ Mary Logan
February 28, 2026 1:25 am
This fine Signal Saturday morn, amen boy howdy, do we have a swell trek ahead. We’ll investigate an amazing tale of being shanghaied and a wild hunt for Hell’s Angels hiding in the chaparral. (For you new Time Ranger saddlepals unfamiliar
John Boston | In Lament of the Missing Cartoon Hero
February 27, 2026 4:52 am
Where’s Bugs and Bullwinkle? The ducks, Daffy and Donald? Professor Peabody (the world’s smartest talking dog) and those affable mice — Jerry, Mighty and Mickey? We even had a cartoon
The Time Ranger | Glass Volcanoes & Mr. Jane Fonda
February 21, 2026 8:45 am
We’ve a most interesting trek ahead through Santa Clarita Valley history, what with glass volcanoes, presidential candidates, Mr. Jane Fonda and a California Highway Patrol feeding frenzy. Left foot goes in the stirrup. Bounce a little. Hop on up. If you’ve done
John Boston | Virtue Signaling or Fighting the New Courthouse?
February 20, 2026 8:41 am
I was pretty darn happy when we became a city in 1987. But then, a bittersweet realization visited: “In two or three generations, Santa Clarita will end up just like the
The Time Ranger | The ’71 Quake, Our 1st Priest, Prison Pork & a School Oak
February 14, 2026 1:46 am
Being straight as Interstate 5 past Bakersfield and in a confident, male, heterosexual fashion, I truly wish all you dear Santa Clarita saddlepals a most enjoyable, meaningful and sweet Valentine’s Day today. May all
John Boston | St. Valentine’s Day: It Started with Wolves
February 13, 2026 5:53 am
DEAR ST. VALENTINE — I’m not even sure if you’re the right person to address with this missive. But, for decades, a question has plagued me. Why did you force
The Time Ranger | Haunted San/Fran & Our 107th Birthday
February 7, 2026 8:57 am
Aren’t we positively lucky, to be living in a Garden of Eden where it’s a million below zero back east and we’re lounging resplendent in T-shirt weather? C’mon. Slip that left boot toe into
John Boston | Today Is Feb. 6. It’s a National Something Day.
February 6, 2026 3:10 am
On any given day, there is a given day. Every blank space on the calendar comes with some sort of “National” or “Official” warning on the label. Let’s take today,
The Time Ranger | Doc Savage & a North Oaks Tsunami
January 31, 2026 1:42 am
Boy howdy, what with predatory black panthers, a Ripley’s local Believe it or Not oak, ghost camels and your usual smattering of crooks, nuts, bunglers and gee-whiz info, we’re going to be hitting the history trail running, amigos. Hop
John Boston | Bouquet Canyon: Congested via Sheep or Traffic
January 30, 2026 2:55 pm
I’ve been driving up and down Santa Clarita’s longest-existing typographical error since I was a kid. Bouquet Canyon Road would unofficially shut down, allowing Basque shepherds to cross with sheep
The Time Ranger | Crooks, Witches, Saugus Café & Local Whorehouses
January 24, 2026 1:15 am
Boy howdy, we’ve got an absolutely eerie trail ride through local history ahead, amigos and amigo-ettes. Eerie, I say. And it’s not even close to Halloween. We’ve got Hollywood gangsters, dens of iniquity,
John Boston | Chuck Norris & to Shoot or to Retreat, Smiling
January 23, 2026 6:26 am
Once I had the neatest conversation with Chuck Norris. You know. Karate guy? Movie and TV star? One of Earth’s toughest people? I was sports editor then and it couldn’t
The Time Ranger | How Canyon High Got Homered by AV Refs
January 17, 2026 1:16 am
For some of us, it’s a couple days past the deadline to get our quarterly tax payments postmarked. For the rest of you wage monkeys, it’s time to don a huge smile, check the cinches and swing a (one and
John Boston | A Lost Art of Parental Whoa & Giddy-Up
January 16, 2026 3:55 am
Years ago, I borrowed a wonderful and highly recommended book from my daughter’s teacher. Ken Lavner was light years beyond a gifted mentor — brilliant, light-hearted, unbudgingly firm, strong and