(My staff shirts) An estimated 1,500 people attended the 1998 edition of Live on the Bay, where I worked undercover as security. Campland’s sites were more than eighty-five percent full for the event. The only complaints …

How we discovered & named Boy Shakira, plus a poem about record collecting

BOY SHAKIRA IS ALL MY FAULT During the last season of America's Got Talent, the most controversial contestant was easily Boy Shakira, a heavyset man in a blonde wig and halter top, enthusiastically belly-dancing to both cheers and jeers. Didja …

Louis XIV Downunder allstar jam last week, More Cartoon Rockers & Virtual San Diego

        ********************************************* *********************************************** YOUTUBE GEMS THIS WEEK I spend hours combing YouTube for the coolest gems, so you don’t have to! First up, here’s Louis XIV in Australia last week, November 11th, onstage with the Vines, Howling Belles, …

Backstage and behind the scenes for a legendary local gig

May 1969: Two hundred years after Father Junípero Serra founded the first California mission on Presidio Hill, San Diego celebrated its bicentennial. The Ferry still shuttled passengers and cargo across the harbor, as it had for over eighty years, but …

FRANK ZAPPA COMIX AND STORIES TOP 5 CLUES THAT YOUR LOCAL BAR IS FULL OF JUNKIES 5) People keep trying to sell you car stereos. 4) Customers complaining about no locks on the bathrooms. 3) Nobody ever touches the munchies. …

BATTLE OF THE LOCAL BLUES LOVERS (Art by Ken Meyer, Jr.) “My enemies have betrayed me have overtaken poor Bob at last An’ ‘ere’s one thing certainly they have stones all in my pass.” (Robert Johnson “Stones In My Passway”) …