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Blog entries concerning the Midway District of San Diego.

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Tour de Cheesesteak: stage 8

Just as things are getting difficult on the Tour, a surprise stage victory by an unlikely contender!

I didn’t want to leave the house and go down to Point Loma. It was cozy at home and I ...

Dancin in the Street

Went to the office a couple days last week. I've been telecommuting mostly, calms me down, makes me healthier. So ...

that car wash

Ive been there twice. I should go tomorrow and leave it first thing, pick it up at lunch. My car ...

June Gloom - Bastard Noise, Author & Punisher, Zsa Zsa Gabor, ANA/, and Tabloid

Noise musician Sam Lopez (aka Zsa Zsa Gabor) has done a lot to cultivate San Diego's special brand of weird. ...

$10 Lunch: Noodles & Company

I was a bit confused when I first went into the Noodles & Company at Sports Arena and Rosecrans (other ...

Xbox, Dubstep, and Bikini Babes at Cafe HAPA

G.I. Joe cartoons, a modded Xbox, dubstep, Maxim magazines, and bikini babes making sandwiches and laughing at all of your ...

The Day Led Zep Played San Diego: March 10, 1975

3-10-75 – On tour behind their Physical Graffiti album, the mighty Zep played a 14-song set at the San Diego ...

Electronic Awakening at Spin Nightclub

Having gone from a weekly night at the Kava Lounge to a bass music mega-event at the three-story Spin Nightclub ...

Hookah dreams

It's quiet in the car, the creaking of the train on the curves the only sound. It's late afternoon and ...

SPORTS ARENA, HANCOCK, HALLOWEEN

Today there were a group of ladies (at least it looked like ladies in tutus) standing on the center divider ...

Blooming Underpass Pt 2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/6073511948/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/6101599474/in/photostream Today I met Sal, the artist I've been watching for a month or so creating the mural on ...

My Daily Journey 4

SPRINGING INTO Weeds sprouting from the blacktop. Dry grass forming wreaths around the utility poles. Splatters of oil baked onto ...

John Wayne is on my plate.

I pull up to the line where "occasional" vendors purchase a spot, and am greeted with a "got a sellers ...

blooming Underpass

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5965711412/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5965262065/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5978996303/ So check the progress. can't wait till next week. love this public art, created and supported by ...

painted Desert 2

Mural rising in the underbelly of the freeway near Pacific highway and Rosecrans. Out of the heavy air, faces are ...

Painted Desert

It's very exciting. Overnight the underbelly of the freeway at Rosecrans & PCH has been primed, a grid defined, and ...

Weak Week

A happy soul early this week on the corner of Sports Arena and Rosecrans spinning clothes instead of signs in ...

Discarded Crosswords

In the flower bed, on the dirt this morning, is an REI collapsible waterproof bag, the top zipper undone, a ...

Have It Your Way

The employees at this Burger King deserve big bonuses. The street people congregate inside and out, they share a breakfast ...

Wheelie

Young man in a wheelchair, Chicano, cool haircut, piercings- rolled right off the curb, landed, balanced on the two back ...

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