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The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Bears & The SCV’s 1st ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

July 10, 2021 8:35 am

A warm — no. Make that more appropriately a HOT & Western welcome to you dear SClaritiatonians. Hope all’s well and you’re stocked up on at least a few 55-gallon drums of

John Boston

John Boston | The Mandarins at Hart Will Vote Next Week

July 9, 2021 7:23 am

I was a tummyless mop of hair, acne, Adam’s apple, terror and trepidation, awkward and unbalanced in size 11 shoes. It’s an awkward age, no longer child, not quite teenager.

John Boston

John Boston | Lord of the Santa Clarita Valley Flies

July 2, 2021 2:48 pm

Like Mad Magazine’s iconic Alfred E. Neuman, I’ve got flies. They showed up at my office last week, unannounced, without an appointment, and just made themselves at home.  These aren’t

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Heat, Heat, More Heat and Stupid Heat

June 26, 2021 8:38 am

Thank goodness you’re all here. Earlier this morning, I lugged along my tool bag and monkeyed with the temperature of the Official Mighty Signal/Santa Clarita Time Continuum Vortex. Don’t tell

John Boston

John Boston | Let’s Come to Our Senses: DO NOT Recall D.A. Gascon!

June 25, 2021 3:59 am

I hate like heck to not only disagree with the Official Editorial Position of The Mighty Signal, but also 42,611 governments within the County of Los Angeles. Add to that

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | A Happy Father’s Day to All You SCV Dads

June 19, 2021 7:36 am

That handsome gent on my right in the dashing hat and silver buckle with all the proper Western accoutrements, as always, is my dear pops, Walt Cieplik. While he is riding in not just the

John Boston

John Boston | June Gloom. Place Her Kind Face on a Milk Carton…

June 18, 2021 6:22 am

I wonder. Does this week’s heat seem to match our public soul? Mean. Unfair. Angry for no good reason. Punishing. Wicked. Bristling.  Hell-like.  Hot weather is nothing new. But the

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Acton. Yup. Almost Our State’s Capital

June 12, 2021 8:01 am

Top of the weekend metaphorical morning to you, you — you — you Santa Clarita varmints and fetching/wanton varmint-ettes. Now right off the bat, we’ve stumbled upon yet another great

John Boston

John Boston | A Resumé That Screams: ‘Don’t Hire This Guy!!’

June 11, 2021 3:17 am

Some, in the Smart Set, feel Leonardo da Vinci may be history’s most creative person. Leo also invented the world’s first resumé.   The word is French and means, “summary.”

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Booze, Machine Guns & Indian Revolts

June 5, 2021 8:35 am

Happy darn first weekend in June. Somebody please tell me it can’t be 2021 because it seemed like 20 minutes ago it was 1958 and I was finally learning cursive

John Boston

John Boston | The Idiot Word Police of the Left and CNN

June 4, 2021 7:35 am

Years ago, the phone rang. I was sitting in the newsroom. I always hated getting calls at work. Well. The ones that weren’t steamy and inappropriately personal. The caller identified

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Murder, Movies, Big Mac & Mayhem

May 29, 2021 8:28 am

Before we enjoy the companionship and metaphorical fresh air of this weekend’s trail ride through Santa Clarita history, a small favor. Each, in their own way, take a minute. Let’s

John Boston

John Boston | Memorial Day Nightmares and a Pico Warfield

May 28, 2021 1:34 am

Things cost. My father passed away sneaking up on a decade ago. He was flirting with 90, a veteran. Dad lived with me those final years. I’m a night owl.

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Sex Wax, Movie Stars & Epic Bug Attack

May 22, 2021 8:13 am

I’m going to share something funny, both strange and “ha-ha.” Because of all the time traveling I do in my line of work, I ALREADY know what awaits us on this weekend’s

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Fetching Women with Come-Hither Smiles

May 15, 2021 8:58 am

I simply must invent a device where we can take our work and chores back into time. The Vortex SClarita simply does not allow us to smuggle in things like laptops, spreadsheets

John Boston

John Boston | Persian Movies & Sea Bass at The Way Station

May 14, 2021 2:30 am

So I’ve been kidding Eric over at The Way Station for about 400 years now about the suspicious absence of Beef Stew, Biscuits & Gravy from his otherwise perfect menu.

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Bees, Floods, Fires & Sundry Mayhem

May 8, 2021 8:06 am

Saddlepals! Account for yourselves! How the heck was your week and the weeks of yourn? Details, if you’d be so kind? Through the miracle of SCV time-traveling, you can actually all talk

John Boston

John Boston | Part II — Save the Mighty Hart High Indian

May 7, 2021 4:12 am

This issue of Hart High’s mascot being The Indian is not the — well. The issue. It’s a smoke screen. At its deepest roots, this question precedes ancient, pre-Hindu times,

The Timer Ranger

The Time Ranger | Rains, Rodeos & Riding the Rails …

May 1, 2021 8:35 am

In all the years we’ve been getting up early to explore our back canyons of Santa Clarita history, I can’t recall cracking open the barn door and whispering: “Why don’t you

John Boston

John Boston | Part I — Save the Mighty Hart High Indian

April 30, 2021 3:34 am

Monday, the William S. Hart Union High School District invited locals to speak at a Zoom meeting. Those who couldn’t participate or fit in the electron-sized boxes on their computer

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