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Confessions
Hey, thanks Pete! Just my speed :) I'm wondering if this was the same 'event' staged by a group doing social space experiments like this in big cities--if so, the guy did about 2000 high fives in one day! Another one they staged was a fake jumper up on a building, with another actor 'talking' him down. Another in the planning stage was to release a bunch of chimpanzees in NYC, and then film people's reactions. Anyway, it was fun to see Times Square and some uptown shots :)— October 3, 2009 7:56 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
As a longtime Onion fan (dunno why some people don't find it funny anymore--used to get the paper in NYC, now have to read it online), I was a little disappointed in the movie--just that some of the vignettes were lame. Most of them were pretty funny, though. Which were your faves, SurfP? I have three t-shirt from the Onion store with popular past headlines: "Are your cats old enough to hear about Jesus?" "Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day" and the very timely: "Jesus is my health insurance." Bought one for my little hipster cuz, and will buy one for another cuz's two-year old that reads: "I appreciate the muppets on a much deeper level than you" :)— October 3, 2009 7:02 p.m.
No More Chicken Please
lovetowrite wrote: "Take La Mesa. What the hell is happening to La Mesa? Is it just me, or have the nuts, loonies and otherwise wack-jobs converged on my cozy little former hometown?" That area around Spring and Lemon always seems to have been that way, as long as the trolley's been around, too...— October 3, 2009 6:53 p.m.
No More Chicken Please
Friendly Disclaimer: If you hear me make fun of everyone's "Tourette's," it serves as metaphor for my cousins and I celebrating our wierd and wild wit-fests, and their tendency to blurt funny but inappropriate things at inopportune (or opportune, depending on how you look at it) moments. A friend's daughter has Tourette's--she and her twin were preemies, and we are careful to not make reference around them. I also had a friend as a teen who had mild Tourette's--and didn't mind making fun of it--where I originally began doing so.— October 3, 2009 6:51 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
re: #53: $100 says it had the phrase "PISTOL PETER CHECKER" in it. re: #66: How do these guys get hired!!!!???— October 3, 2009 6:39 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
Oh, and my absolute favorite instructor? Dr. Frank Larosa! Taught literature and mythology, and inspired me to study and write fiction, too. Least favorite? The heavyset guy with a ponytail who taught art history--Doug Daillard. What a dork--a grating, dumbed down cynic who treated anyone's appreciation of art as naive. He went off in class once about how the Greeks were smelly dirty bastards who did not ever bathe. I raised my hand, and asked why then did they have elaborate bathing temples? And curette-tools for scraping the skin clean? I had a book on this stuff--he should have at least known about the architecture. He turned red, puffed up like an old adder, and yelled at me to take my sophomoric attitude and get out of his class. I refused to leave, and repeated my question, which he ignored. A month later I was moving to a new apartment, and the only thing left in the old place was the phone, which began to ring. It was Daillard, calling to apologize, and say that I was, of course, right--Greeks bathed frequently, unless they were on the battle field, he said-- lamely, I might add. Suh-weet :)— October 3, 2009 5:33 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
Hmm, sounds like my lecturing (kidding, though I have jumped on a few chairs in the past, and used some off color humor). I started at City in the summer of 1990, with Gwyn Enright's Eng Comp 101 (heard she teaches some online courses now). Were you there, then, Fishy? I was 19, and had not been in school (to study) since sixth grade, but it felt like home. Still have a paper or two written for that class--funny to look back at the first essays you ever wrote. I used to hang out with the forty-something crowd, most of them studying to be drug and alcohol addiction counselors. I remember a funny older guy giving a speech in Health class, and starting it off with the words "Bin there! Dun that!" :)— October 3, 2009 5:24 p.m.
Golden Stalwart aka Shameless "Us" Promotion
re: #23: It feels hopeless. Maybe Professor Gringo would teach a remedial course on HTML tags? :)— October 3, 2009 5:15 p.m.
Golden Stalwart aka Shameless "Us" Promotion
#20: That Cheers episode was fun to revisit. Alex T. is hilarious. While I was watching it, happened to glance up at the muted television--Chelsey Lately was on Jeopardy, with Alex T. Synchronistic momentary moment... #27: What happened to that link, snarfhund? Tried it on a new page, and it brought me to some satellite TV ad :( We are all fans here, so you can ref your son's blogs by entry NAME! He's that famous! You should indeed be proud!— October 3, 2009 5:14 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
"So that's what I did. Both! Honors English and Remedial math." Yay! Me too. Shout out to nan and Fishikins! Yeah, they had some clown teaching algebra 1 and 2 at City. Retired teacher coming back. He used to stand at the board, suddenly confused, and literally scratch his head. They made him do some remedial review of his own! Used to go by the office poor guy borrowed, and hear him listening to math tapes. Hee hehe. Gawd, he could be dead by now... I was a brat, and used to intimidate my CC English teachers with my vast, native wit. Dr Sun, head of math dept, who taught algebra? Not so much. :)— October 3, 2009 4:56 p.m.