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Bad Cops Get Caught -- But Not All of Them Do
Jerry -- Thanks for the eye. Fixed.— May 12, 2011 8:59 a.m.
David Ross fights for downtown bathrooms to serve homeless
SDaniels -- No books that are 60s specific, but am working on a critical look at 60s paperbacks, but the texts, not the art. SIN A RAMA, that I contributed to, is about the art and is a good one to check out.— October 15, 2009 3:03 p.m.
David Ross fights for downtown bathrooms to serve homeless
Bookewarren: while your categories of the homeless hold truth, it's not true for all...we need only look at how many people have been forced into homelessness the past two years, in every city and town in the U.S., as a result of the economic collapse. The same happened in the 1920s -- not all those homeless were mentally ill, addicts or "jobless." Many of the "new" homeless I have seen carry around suitcaes and travel bags that appear to be newly stuffed, as if they suddenly became homeless because of a loss of a job, the loss of state support, or rent that's too high. There are homeless with jobs and they jobs are either part-time or don't pay enough for people to get a room or pay first and last and security on an apartment. And if you have been homelss for a while, and your credit is nill or bad, it's tough to get an apartment. It almost becomes a Catch-22 situation. It's too easy to label people that way. Each person out there has a unique story. Many of them are there because they messed up one way or another -- some of them are victims of the current economic climate.— October 15, 2009 3:01 p.m.
David Ross fights for downtown bathrooms to serve homeless
Joe -- Good piece. I have noticed, the past year or longer, an increase of downtown's homeless, obviously a result of the economic downtown, with many people looking newly homeless with packed suitcases. I have also noticed a tent city has formed at night by the downtown library and post office, two or three blocks worth, and I've never seen this before downtown in the past 15 years.— October 14, 2009 3:12 p.m.
Big Hair, Big Party
from the cutting room floor: LIVE SHOW ISSUES? Tommy 2 Tuff: “The band bar tab usually runs out way before it should, and having to change in a bathroom stall really sucks. Ever try putting a wig on without a mirror? Let me tell you, it isn't easy.” EARLIEST CHILDHOOD MEMORY? D.D. Dre Deville: “I was about 3, I remember being dressed up in a little lamb costume performing a dance routine on the big stage at the International Street Fair in Orange [County].” Tommy 2 Tuff: “Seeing KISS in 1977 at the Sports Arena. I was 6, and my mom took the whole family to see them. My sister passed out due to the pot smoke flowing through the air.” Stevie Wilde: “The way the subways on the N-train smelled going from 18th and 64th to Coney Island. They always had a strange underlying odor of pink cotton candy. Not blue cotton candy -- the pink stuff.” Johnny Basher: “I remember breaking all my toy drums and air guitar-ing to my mom and dad’s oldies like Beach Boys, Beatles, Elvis and of course Sha Na Na.” WHAT SONG IS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW? D.D. Dre Deville: “Lady GaGa: ‘Just Dance’ which is probably tied with ‘Poker Face’ also by Lady GaGa. You will catch me just randomly singing it at any given time. You know doing the laundry and busting out with ‘I’ve had a little bit too much, all of the people start to rush/Where are my keys I lost my phone/It’s all right just dance.’ It’s uplifting with such a tedious task.” Johnny Basher: “Motley Crue: ‘Same Ol’ Situation’ some chick was playing it early this morning over and over again and it’s been in my head all day. I did a follow up of … girl… don’t go away mad… girl… just go away… haha.” LAST BOOK READ... Johnny Basher: “I can’t read -- a grown man that can’t read -- so sad -- stay in school kids!”— July 22, 2009 5:25 p.m.
San Diego bouncers: 97% nothing, 3% Hell and terror
JayAllen -- The links seem to be dead links, or the full URLs didn't make it thru...— January 8, 2009 4:22 p.m.
Ocean Beach Library
Save the library!— November 15, 2008 11:22 p.m.
San Ysidro border wait now an hour on a good day
If you cross a lot, I have found, you can figure out when the busy times are, which are in the morning when people are going to work or school in the U.S., and mid-afternoon when the morning tourists are coming back. Ditto Sunday and Monday morning. I have been in the two hour lines, and I have crossed with no lines in five minutes. The buses are worth $5 so you don't have to stand on your feet and in the sun or rain. Some of the shuttles for $10 will take you to the Otay border, where the line is usually less long, and then the shuttle will pick you up and take you back to San Ysidro -- unless the shuttle driver decides he doesn't feel like it, then you're out of luck and have to spend $15 on a cab. There are guys you can pay $10 who will slip you to the front of the line, or you can find someone who will take 5-10 to let you cut in front of them -- if the TJ or US uniforms see this, though, they may send you back to the back. There are also a good amount of bullies who just push their way to the front. Summers seem to be the worst, la linea is always long by foot or car. People are hot and irritated and there's the occasional fist fight among the overheated and overly macho. The good citizens of TJ, of course, like it when the lines are long, because there is money to be made -- sodas and churros and water are sold, buses and shuttles are packed, the duty free stores along the walkway do more business.— November 12, 2008 12:57 p.m.
They Had Great Text by Katie Reese
What she fails to realize, or want to admit, is that along with her, he had 2-3 other women he was romancing and doing on the desk. He wasn't getting drunk in the afternoon with an old friend, he was in bed with another woman; and other women is why he kept changing dates. This is an M.O. I know well -- well, in other times of my life, not now, but this is what we guys do when jumbling several booty calls at the same time -- he didn't "lose interest," per se, there were other lands to conquer...does any army deal with captured territory when there is new real estate to quell and tame?— November 12, 2008 12:41 p.m.
The Palin Analogies
She's a maverick.— October 8, 2008 5:27 p.m.