Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke at the L.A. Press Club's annual awards dinner Saturday night, just one of many speakers that made the evening drag on for hours after the chicken and stuffing dinner had been consumed. But that's another story.

The Mayor mentioned that this evening, like most, he had another gig scheduled immediately after wraning journlists to be skeptical but not cynical. In this case, he was introducing former VP Al Gore in town promiting his new documentary, which the Mayor referred to as "Truth or Consequences." Journalists aren't known for having much in the way of tact, and many shouted out the real name of the movie: "An Inconvenient Truth." Copy editors, no doubt.

Once I got to thinking about it, though, I realized that this was an insightful flub, at least for me. Villaraigosa's version is more fitting to the film about global warming and its actual consequences of Katrina-like storms, shrinking glaciers, famine, floods and disease, which I've seen. Truth, or consequences indeed. Hopefully this movie and others will take the wind out of the blowhard global-warming deniers keening about how its all a lie.

For those of you who are wondering: yes, I did take the bus to the Millenium Biltmore Hotel Saturday night, worrying the whole way that the woman behind me was going to puke down my back. From the smell, she had been upchucking in the recent past. And from the sounds going on behind me, she woud again spew in the recent future. I was lucky to escape the 2 Santa Monica Blvd. bus without a splatter.

I might have taken the bus back home if the event had ended before 11 p.m.Pershing Square is not a place where a single girl in a strappy dress should be hanging out late at night.