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Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
singeandawesome...you sound awesome. And you're a great writer. I enjoyed this piece, and I hope we see more of your stuff on this website. I apologize for putting you in a funk with the piece I wrote. But what baffles me is that you missed the entire point (sort of). The point wasn't about people having "types". To me, that's all a bit silly. I don't like red heads, but have dated a few. I don't prefer African-American women, but have dated a few. I don't prefer the look of Indian women, and have seen a few I would've dated, but I either wasn't single. Or they lived in England when I was there, and didn't think a long distance thing would work. But anyway... The point I was making was this: IF YOU SET SOMEONE UP ON A BLIND DATE...tell them everything. Does the person smoke? Do they dress goofy? Are they black? Are they short? Do they wear too much perfume? See what I'm driving at? So let me ask you this. If one of your friends was setting you up on a blind date, wouldn't you want to know EVERYTHING they could tell you about this person? Maybe you live in Chula Vista and they live in Oceanside, and that's too far for either of you to drive. Now, the fact that men are more into looks than women are, is something that's more biological than anything else. Nobody can knock that. But I'll tell you something disgusting about men. I've had a number of male friends talk about blind dates with women that were either fat, or just 20 or 30 pounds overweight. And they actually thought of excuses to get out of the dates. I've gone on three "blind dates" with women that were too heavy for my tastes. One of them was doing phone sales and called me up randomly. We started talking and making each other laugh. It never occured to me to ask her what she looked like. I picked her up in El Cajon, and she was about 300 pounds, had bad acne scars, and smelled kind of funny. No wait...she smelled fine. Her house smelled funny. We still went out to lunch, and even Baskin Robbins afterwards. I just never called her again. I won't bore you with the other two dates, but the same thing. I finished out the dates, made nice conversation...and even continued to talk to a few of them on the phone for weeks after (letting them know at some point, that I just wasn't interested). Which leads me to your next point. Why should the woman on this date have to make some proclamation to the man, stating "I DO NOT DATE BLACK MEN!" What is accomplished by doing this? She feels like a racist (which she isn't). And he feels bad (for no reason). Obviously, he'll find another woman that does find him attractive, and that woman could be any number of possibilities racially, physically, whatever. I hate to say it, but antigeek said it best with her initially post.— September 23, 2009 2:04 a.m.
Mutt Mixer
Hey...Cotton wouldn't mind losing the weight. He'd be putting his paw in his mouth after all his Kibbles & Bits. As long as he doesn't have to go on the doggie casting couch. Thanks for having me at the party. Sorry I didn't stay longer, but Street Scene was a'callin'.— September 23, 2009 12:14 a.m.
Going to the Chapel
Ya know what's weird? What do the photos of the actual victims wounds actually add to the case? It doesn't prove anything towards guilt or innocence. There have been some great court room bits done by The Kids in the Hall. And one classic by SNL, where Belushi falls asleep. The jurors are handed a note that has the graphic language the rapist said to his victim. Each juror reads the words, that the woman on the witness stand didn't want to utter. Belushi is sleeping, and Gilda Rander or Jane Curtain nudge him. He wakes up, and they hand him the note. He reads it, with eyebrow pierced. He looks back at the juror that handed it to him and nods his head yes.— September 22, 2009 9:40 p.m.
I Was Speeding, But...
You know how I can predict a gum wrapper flying out of the bed of a truck? The fact that it's in there!! If you truck drivers throw trash back there, no matter how small, you have to ASSume at some point it's going to fly out onto the streets and be litter.— September 22, 2009 4:55 p.m.
Going to the Chapel
I was looking forward to my jury duty experience. Then I was the first one dismissed. By the prosecutor. I wanted to tell her...I thought the guy was guilty, even though the case didn't start. I feel if they did all this to bring the jackass in, he probably did it. So, in my mind, he's guilty until proven innocent. Now, that doesn't mean I'm disregarding all the evidence. I'll look at everything thrown out onto the table. And maybe I'll change my mind. But with the guy that punched his ex-girlfriend in the Gaslamp, I'm not sure what they could've said that would've possibly made the outcome different. I just got a notice for jury duty the other day. I won't be attending.— September 22, 2009 4:47 p.m.
Driving Pet Peeves
Bumper stickers can be done right. But 90% of the time, they aren't, and just make the car they're on look like crap. Let me ask you, Fish. How often do you see bumper stickers that "add" to the look of the car?— September 22, 2009 11:18 a.m.
¡Viva Mexico!
I always heard that bullets came down with the same velocity. But then I believe on Penn & Teller's Bull$hit show, it turned out they didn't. Or maybe I'm remembering it completely wrong. I'm sure anti will post some links.— September 22, 2009 1:38 a.m.
County Health Meet County Fair
anti...you wrote that I didn't post a link as usual. Well, you should've scrolled up to post #6, where I have the link. I post links when they're needed or necessary. My job writing blogs isn't to have a bunch of links, so that people go to other websites to read news. The story, as I wrote it, had all the facts I wished to convey. And nothing of relevance was left out of what I had written. I know you like to think I gave such an incomplete report on the facts. But, I also don't want to write a thousand word blog. My cousin was in a pretty famous band for a while, signed to Geffen records. Now he's living in Oregon, and a few times hung out with Ken Keseys kid. Right before KK died, he said they would buy his old books on eBay and sites like that. First editions. KK would then sign them, and they'd re-sell them and make a huge profit. He still had that crazy bus, too. Although I think it was in really bad shape. The one he had that was painted up nice, wasn't the original Merry Prankster bus.— September 22, 2009 1:34 a.m.
County Health Meet County Fair
Me thinks I need some genius like anti or SD to post a link to explain who Descartes is.— September 21, 2009 9:29 p.m.
From The Way Folks Act Today...
I like this blog. Anytime someone mentions inserting something inside Kanye West, I'm on board (so to speak).— September 21, 2009 4:31 p.m.