Blogs
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Friday 'Round Town, plus Forty One Sixty Free Show, Kids of Widney High, Latenight TV, Top 5 Rock Movie Soundtracks, As I Lay Recording, more
By Jay Allen Sanford - November 20, 2009, 12:46 p.m.
San Diego Music Encyclopedia & Database Online Now Press illo to play the Overheard song! ************************************************* NEW COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL MUSIC DATABASE IS LAUNCHED IT'S DONE!!!! And growing every hour.... ...
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Funny Joke
By MsGrant - November 20, 2009, 12:41 p.m.
My sister sent me this and it cracked me up. Two old friends were just about to tee off at the first hole of their local golf course when a guy carrying a golf bag called out to them, "Do you mind if I join you? My partner didn't turn ...
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Scholarly Research
By ZacharyJC - November 20, 2009, 11:14 a.m.
One could accuse my father of being a grump. A lot of names stick to him – if only they stick like pickles to a window. I used to subscribe to the grump hypothesis, but I found it to be easy and overly adhesive. A closer study reveals slant rhyme ...
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The Oprah Brouhaha
By Josh Board - November 20, 2009, 11:03 a.m.
So, there's this Eggo waffle shortage. And it comes the same time Oprah Winfrey has decided to end her talk show. Coincidence?! Okay, that was a cheap joke. And not even a funny one. I wanted to start the blog with lyrics from Stew, one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I ...
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Bonus Blog: The Best Version of Ken Lee
By CuddleFish - November 20, 2009, 10:57 a.m.
The other day, I posted a version of that famous song, Ken Lee, which you can read more about on the Wiki page dedicated to it. There is the original Badfinger version. There is the more familiar version, sung by Harry Nilsson. There is the version ...
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Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
By Don Bauder - November 20, 2009, 10:57 a.m.
The San Diego County unemployment rate for October rose to 10.5% from a revised 10.4% in September, according to the California Employment Development Department. The metro area gained 8,100 jobs from September, but lost 52,000 from a year ago. October's number compares with 12.3% for California during the period and ...
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CCDC and another study
By auntsandiegospeaks - November 19, 2009, 7:45 p.m.
This is not the blog I had intended to write. The late newscast just changed things. NO NO NO How can a City that is struggling, laying people off and looking at budget deficits possibly pay $160,000 for some consultant to study the feasibility of a stadium for the Chargers ...
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the TWILITE thingy
By RobertScorpio - November 19, 2009, 5:27 p.m.
So, my daughter, who has suffered through several episodes of Hawaii Five-0, and Star Trek movies recently, cashed in her chips with me and made me watch...ugghhh..Twilite. I had never seen this movie, I had heard of it though. She has this dude's posters all over her room. I think ...
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The Emperor's New Prose
By SDaniels - November 19, 2009, 5:15 p.m.
Just recently there lived an emperor who was so fond of all things “literal,” as he called them, that he neglected most matters of state in order to spend his time at court surrounded by the finest poets, essayists, novelists, stage actors and scholars he could find. The emperor, a ...
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The Biggest Loser. Is it Shawne Merriman, Levi, or Palin?
By Josh Board - November 19, 2009, 3:57 p.m.
Celebrity news can sometimes be interesting. Sometimes it's boring. But there are a few things that involve people saying one thing about a person, that you can clearly call BS on without knowing all the details. It's funny, because I've watched some of those police shows when cops are questioning ...
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Update Little Falls 11/19/2009
By johnwotzka - November 19, 2009, 12:44 p.m.
1. Atherosclerosis in 1981 B.C. ?. They ate meat from cattle,ducks and geese and salted the meat as there was no refrigeration unless ice was brought down from the highlands of Europe and stored in straw storage in Egypt. Ref: The Wall street Journal, 11/18/09 page A5 2.Good picture of ...
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A Vital Part Of The Breakfast Pantheon
By FullFlavorPike - November 19, 2009, 2:21 a.m.
I just can't decide whither goest the Runner-Up award today. I mean, check the contenders out: Funny T-Shirt for the Ladies - $5 (Normal Heights) and *BRAND NEW" *I Love Edward Cullen Hoodie* - $35 (Normal Heights) Which of these gems has more unintentional hilarity attached? I simply ...
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Help! Help! Help!
By CuddleFish - November 19, 2009, 12:25 a.m.
If any of you know -- I just lost five pages I had typed and to top it off was using an old Works word processor document -- does anyone have a clue where I can look where it may be stored??? Someone turned off PC and now the pages ...
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Naked Thumb Suckers
By RobertScorpio - November 18, 2009, 11:12 p.m.
Would you like to be a Naked Thumb Sucker? What is that? The Matrix movies, the first one being the only one I cared for, had an interesting premise. In a nutshell, humans are kept alive in little alcoves, naked. Their minds are wired into a ‘matrix’; a fake world ...
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Dark San Diego Nights
By downtownphotoguy - November 18, 2009, 5:39 p.m.
 Many casual photographers put away their cameras when the sun goes down, not realizing that the night presents many unique opportunities for getting creative and having fun with photography. San Diego is a great place to be at night. The setting sun reflects off downtown buildings and colors streak ...
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Concessions Confessions
By anthonygentile - November 18, 2009, 5:12 p.m.
With the regular season coming to a close last Friday, I have a confession to make: the best part about covering high school football is the food. While quality matchups whet my appetite week to week, it is the concession stands at high schools throughout San Diego that keep me ...
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Sweet Gums and Sycamores
By Jerry Schad - November 18, 2009, 1:16 p.m.
Liquidambar Trees, or sweet gums, the deciduous trees gracing front yards, parks, and campuses throughout the San Diego area, have been putting on an exceptionally colorful show. The leaves of some varieties turn to purple or red; the leaves of other varieties fade to golden yellow. Still other varieties hold ...
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Bisexual Scifi
By RobertScorpio - November 18, 2009, 9:42 a.m.
Yeah, I bet that caught your eye!!! Women and Scifi. They seem to go together as good as oil and water. Yeah, I know, some women like scifi, but I bet the ration of men to women is about, oh, 1000 to 1. The show BIG BANG THEORY is about ...
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Some Economics of Life in San Diego
By auntsandiegospeaks - November 18, 2009, 7:42 a.m.
I am very surprised that no one is claiming their success in regards to the homeless population that had been camping out on the west side of 9th, between E & F. The winter tent shelters, provided by the City should be open soon. Speaking of camping, I was walking ...
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300 Times
By Josh Board - November 18, 2009, 2:04 a.m.
There were a few interesting stories I couldn’t decide between blogging on. There was that idiotic, 86-year-old owner of the Tennesse Titans. As his team beat the Bills, he decided to flip off the crowd. And it cost him $250,000. I love the fine. Players have been fined $10,000 for ...
