The poet Ezra Pound coined the word melopoiea as a way to describe how verses or even individual words may charged with musical properties, bringing their own sense of rhythm and melody to spoken language. …
March 8, 2019
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Poetry on the menu at Medina
Kellen Winslow goes after 18-year-old after school, 77-year-old at Crunch Fitness
A judge ordered ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. to be held without bail, after new accusations that he inappropriately approached two more women in Carlsbad, while he was at liberty on $2 million bail …
March 8, 2019
Tod Browning’s rehearsal for Freaks, music mockumentary geeks, and the Chipmunks’ squeaks
This week, we’ve got something old, something new, and something that squeaks in the dark. The Unknown (1927) A crook on the lam (Lon Chaney) finds refuge as a circus novelty act, binding his limbs …
March 8, 2019
Bishop John Milner: one of the greatest opponents of the Cisalpine movement in English Catholicism
Bishop John Milner Admitting, however, the obligation of worshipping my Creator, these men will sometimes say: “What necessity is there of my being shut up in a particular building or of my joining with other …
March 8, 2019
Noted motivational speaker Matt Foley celebrates controversial city council vote allowing San Diegans to live in their cars
Motivational speaker Matt Foley is 35 years old and thrice-divorced. And for the past few years, he has been living in a van down by the San Diego River. “I’ve been motivating myself to be …
March 8, 2019
Departing Water Authority General Manager Stapleton tried and failed to untangle unsavory relationship between SDWA and Metropolitan Water District
“Forget it, Mo, it’s Chinatown.” In a climactic scene, a drunken and distraught Maureen Stapleton confronts her superior, Water Authority Board Member Tom Kennedy, and accuses him of sleeping with Metropolitan Water District staffer Meena …
March 8, 2019
Marines praise psychotic Puddle Pirate Christopher Paul Hasson for diverting attention from Corps crazies like Ian David and Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.
Camp Pendleton spokesmarine Buzz Spinner: “Like all Americans, we’re very glad to learn that the authorities were able to uncover and apprehend alleged domestic terrorist and US Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson before he …
March 8, 2019
Trump blasts Padres’ acquisition of “virtual Dominican” instead of “real American” Manny Machado
“Baseball is America’s pastime,” said President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with SD on the QT on his flight home from North Korea last week. “But when I say ‘America,’ I don’t mean ‘Central …
March 8, 2019
Pulitzer recipient W.S. Merwin’s poetry steeped in ecology and Buddhist philosophy
It Is March It is March and black dust falls out of the books Soon I will be gone The tall spirit who lodged here has Left already On the avenues the colorless thread lies …
March 8, 2019
Lorina Pyle finds God in guilty verdict at the Telluride courthouse
First Spiritualist Church of San Diego Contact: 3777 Forty Second St., San Diego 619-284-4646 www.1st-spiritualistchurch.org Membership: 87 Pastor: Lorina Pyle Age: 52 Born: Price, UT Formation: “After an intense search of self-healing and self-understanding…I turned …
March 8, 2019