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San Diegans with Afro puffs
I have to agree that I'm not sure what this story is about-- except a lot of public soul-searching. It's one thing to use yourself as a subject, but using your children's experiences to explore your own issues about race seems exploitative to me as a mom. Next time consider more real research and a clearer topic. (And I would make sure my daughter NEVER saw the cover of this story. )— July 12, 2012 4:46 p.m.
Bread & Cie by word of mouth gets into Henry’s, Whole Foods, plus Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs
There is no one more professional-- or a nicer guy-- in the San Diego food world than Charles Kaufman. Thank you, Reader and writer, for offering a happy story for a change and for profiling someone in our community who deserves to be celebrated. Splashy joints may come and go, but quality lasts. Thank God for Charles, his staff, and Bread and Cie.— July 12, 2012 4:29 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
San Diego is one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on the American people. The weather isn't that great, and that's about the only attribute this place can claim. It's a desert. It's Salton Sea except with greedier, shrewder developers and politicians-- and more gullible citizens. (Even city employees and their pension are grifters!) Like the author I've lived all across the country, but never have I encountered a place so self-absorbed and provincial. Mike Davis nailed it. This is a giant cul-de-sac with too few ways out or in. Dream on, Charger Fans. It's all good. Your team will win. Real estate prices will rise. There's always tomorrow. Meanwhile, in US cities which respect the residents and taxpayers more than the tourists and the military, life goes on. Communities thrive and problems are solved. And as soon as I can-- I can't wait to get back to one. Siobhan, you're a brave chick.— September 27, 2009 8:30 a.m.
A tour of San Diego alleys
wow, whyigotahaveid. That's poetry. better than the story above. you made me taste it.— September 18, 2009 5:11 a.m.
San Diego Police's Serial Inebriate program
Mr. Deegan, I was not going to read the cover story because the cover photo was so disturbing to me. (The photo of the man/woman? might as well have been a full-length nude for the amount of vulnerability and pain it conveys.) Thank goodness, I did read your story. It is beautifully written. A real cut-above the standard READER cover story. Thank you. Viola Dace— August 15, 2009 8:18 a.m.
Why is Palomar Pomerado Health advertising?
I was fortunate enough to begin my working career at David Ogilvy's Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Agency in NYC in the 70s. Ogilvy wrote the classic How to Create Advertising That Sells. One of his many Opinions was that corporate advertising is bs. We took clients' money, we wrote and ran corporate advertising, but we always knew that our god, Ogilvy, depised it and thought it bunkum. He believed any advertising you can't measure in direct sales was a total waste of money. Great research, Larson. Interesting and important story. I'm just mad as hell at these hospitals spending money on corporate advertising, but it's not your fault I'm mad. If my insurance actually allowed me to choose a hospital (who's does?) then I'd choose the one with the smallest advertising budget.— June 26, 2009 8:08 p.m.
Smoking or Non?
I don't know what makes me sadder -- sorry ass no-count bbq or the sad state of American literacy.— June 17, 2009 5:15 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Shel Silverstein is one of the great writers of American literature. . .— May 17, 2009 7:23 a.m.
Billionaire Tom Gores, the Union-Tribune's new owner
I would LOVE to subscribe to a hometown paper. There's so much I miss about the city by not having a local news source. Voiceofsandiego.com is too amateurish and "Let's Make a Paper!" gee-whiz. The READER is only big story. I refused to support the U-T because it had been a prime player in San Diego's stupidity and corruption for the last 80 years. Maybe now the Copleys are gone, I'll hafta subscribe to the new U-T. . .— May 15, 2009 2:34 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
Barbarella-- The Revised White Russian (with vanilla soy milk) is a drink you'll appreciate when you reach menopause. (natural estrogens in the soy milk. . . with the upbeat note of a little booze. . .) Thanks for responding to the boys about creativity and alcohol. It's destroyed infinitely more writing careers than it's made. No one, no one is a great writer under the influence. Drinking just makes a drunk think he's a great writer, it medicates the pain under the creativity, and gives the biographers something juicy to chronicle.— May 3, 2009 6:31 a.m.