“Due to its extremely hot nature, eating a Dave’s Hot Chicken reaper carries with it the potential for certain risks, some of which may be reasonably foreseeable.” So reads the “reaper release,” the liability waiver …
July 10, 2020
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Moved to tears by Dave’s Hot Chicken
Is Midway the new Soccer City?
A fog of intrigue has settled over San Diego city hall's muddled plans to redevelop the city-owned sports arena and surrounding real estate into a lucrative residential high-rise and pro-sports complex. It's a familiar story, …
July 10, 2020
Albert Brooks’ mockinfomercial introduction
This week, it’s Albert Brooks’ first and (hopefully not) last, plus a bit of Sinatra propaganda. Albert Brooks Famous School for Comedians (1972) Omnibus television at its finest, The Great American Dream Machine was a …
July 10, 2020
San Diego Lotharios rejoice at news of mandatory 10 pm nightlife shutdown
A San Diego couple on their first date survey the post-10 pm social wasteland and contemplate their options.
July 10, 2020
The Red, White, and Blue can never tell a lie: San Diego was the place to be for the Fourth of July!
Newsom knew something: San Diego was just about the only place in Southern California where real Americans could celebrate America’s birthday.
July 10, 2020
Customer complaint chases bullying Starbucks barista from corona-crazed coffee collective
When San Diego Starbucks barista Lenin Gutierrez rudely refused to serve a woman because she was not wearing a protective mask, she took to Facebook to complain, noting, “Next time I will wait for cops …
July 10, 2020
John Harris: editor of one of the first English dictionaries
John Harris Tho’ would Men but studiously apply themselves to consider of, would they carefully and impartially examine into, and would they but seriously make use of those Means that God hath graciously given Mankind, …
July 10, 2020