Good writing in the sunday opinion section

I picked up the Sunday LA Times today (mostly because of the Blue Angels picture on the front page - really sad news about the crash), and I just finished combing through the book review, opinion, and business sections.

One thing that strikes me as I spend more time actually reading the paper is how good some of the writing really is, when authors are given the space to really work some magic. One of my favorite pieces from today’s paper is called Revenge of the Hollywood Desk Slaves:

FOR FOUR weeks in April of 2006, I was an Internet celebrity. In one industry, in one city, I was a star. The blogs went crazy. Defamer was all over me. National Public Radio wanted an interview — but I turned them down. My site got more than a million hits in 24 hours.

It all started one morning the previous December, the same week the Hollywood Reporter listed the 100 most powerful women in Hollywood — the trade’s equivalent of a swimsuit issue.

The first thing I did that morning was run to Starbucks and get my boss’ drink of choice, a double tall latte with caramel sauce, not caramel syrup because “it tastes like trans fats.” I was a Hollywood assistant, one of hundreds of young, ambitious college graduates in L.A. getting coffee that morning. It was always better to get the coffee before we got busy rolling calls. (Rolling calls, for the uninitiated, is when an assistant acts as a telephone operator. The boss calls from out of the office. Then, with the boss still on the line, the assistant calls someone else and links them together.)

It’s a good read.