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Police Officer Shootings
SpliffAdamz, I sincerely like the way you write, and love the "Z" effect. Curious: Do you always flame in person, too? Or do you have reasonable, involved conversations? Since you flame everyone, I didn't take it personally when you ranted back at me in the thread for the story about the Chapel of Happiness (or The Hapel of Chappiness, as my grandmother and I used to call it). Thing is, you seemed to take our complaints about loud churches driving out residents as some kind of racist commentary, when clearly, it was not meant to be. I think if you were driven out of your home by 24 hours of amplified noise, maybe you would have been sympathetic? It would be great to hear some constructive thoughts from you in the threads about Tijuana, because I sense that you have studied and lived a lot. It can be maddening to see everything in black & white, all of the time. I went through a period of being angry and righteous all of the time myself, when I started taking cultural studies classes at UCSD, and joined a PAC there. The Amerikkka" doesn't bother me, nor does it when people write U$$A, etc. I'm sure you'll write back some cantankerous thing about not needing anyone's approval, but this is to say that I do appreciate your position, and you don't have to prove to me that you can back some of your attitude up with both theory and fact. Either way, keeping doing what you do, Spliff. Always an interesting read.— April 22, 2009 11:52 a.m.
Electric Cigarettes, Cyrus, Homeless, Chinese...Something offensive for everyone!
A few months ago at my cousin's house, my cousin and I found a large "card" on the kitchen island, sort of stuck under a bowl of fruit. It contained a note thanking the contracter re-doing the kitchen--from my little ten-year-old twin girl cousins. There were two cartoons of faces drawn with eyes with epicanthic folds, glasses, and rabbit teeth. The captions under them read "Chinese loser." For some reason, we broke into hilarious nervous laughter. Later, we talked to the girls. I remember something similar going around when I was a kid in grade school. Not cool. But you can only talk to them, and hope they listen in cultural studies.— April 22, 2009 10:55 a.m.
Electric Cigarettes, Cyrus, Homeless, Chinese...Something offensive for everyone!
Get out, Josh!!! I was at Horton, buying my electronic cigarette yesterday. Doc said "Quit... yesterday--" so this seemed like a great alternative. Smoking is VERY bad for the stomach, as well as every other evil thing it does. So the e-cig is so cool, gives that "hit" at the back of the throat that smokers want, except it is hard to get a puff off it after the first or second try. I might take it back to "Yogi" at the kiosk there. It has a lithium battery and a USB you plug into your computer to recharge, and has a chamber where water is turned to vapor to create the "smoke" effect. As a guilty smoker who hates to bother anyone, and who carries around the smelly stubs rather than litter, and as someone who has smoked a few too many years, it seems a good trade on all fronts. BTW, you can get 3 different levels of nicotine; I got the lowest possible dose since I smoked ultra lights, and then some cartridges without nicotine, so I can wean off. Ordered some flavors too; coffee, apple. They even have inhalable vitamin cartridges. If you think about it, it is like those fake cigs they give geezers to suck on, like a filter end that releases just nicotine. Except chic-er. People asked me for cigs on the street right away, and were very confused by it. Mine's gold with a gold case. If you see a woman holding a gold cylinder as she tools around, that might be me--if I can get the damn thing to work right :)— April 22, 2009 10:43 a.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
I think I saw that guy once! You have got to be a loser!!!! I can understand doing it once while out clubbing or drinking, though. I dated a guy once who looked a lot like Eric Stoltz, and he related a story from sometime before we met, of having impersonated Stoltz for an entire evening. Apparently, he was accosted by a gaggle of girls wanting his autograph. What's a poor boy to do?— April 22, 2009 10:29 a.m.
Junk Talk
A cute "v" scene I know is from the mockumentary My Winnipeg. The filmmaker/narrator Guy Maddin (Saddest Music in the World) has film noir star Ann Savage play his mother. To give the idea that mother is a very strong, domineering force, he uses shots of a "v" that he narrates as the "fertile crescent" or "delta," and that's what you think you are getting at first--an aerial view of the birthplace of civilization ;)— April 22, 2009 10:18 a.m.
La Mesa's Magical Oasis...
Hey, Lisa, so someone who read your blog wrote this, too? How fascinating--you should pencil in that tour!— April 21, 2009 4:59 p.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
Good question, Cardig! Though I'd say the questions SHOULD be tough. They are, after all, interviewing for a high profile job, and should be able to demonstrate a few successful synaptical events. I know my man surfed briefly over the channel while the pageant was on, and we had a good laugh over the suited gentlemen fanning open big white ostrich feathers as each contestant stepped down in her bedazzled bikini. And seriously, these girls are one step away from a short lucrative career in porn. No judgement on that, really, just that the parallels seem obvious. Josh, politically [slimily] it makes sense that McCain would use her like a disposable latex item. Humanly, it is sad, inasfar as I am able to feel sorry for the Governor of Alaska. But I doubt those two mavericks ever sat down together alone. Incidentally, my mother and Sarah Palin look eerily alike, from the hairstyle right down to the glasses. We found a full-page photo of Palin in People Mag and took my mother's picture with her sitting next to me, while I held the Palin photo over my face. Hilarious. I'll have to find that photo. During all the campaign fervor, she (my mom) was getting stopped on the street and told she was "doing a great job." She lives in Palm Desert, and is very glad the hype is over.— April 21, 2009 4:19 p.m.
Celebrity Idiots -- The Jamie Fox and Hulk Hogan Edition
Ovod, *Lisette,* any other languages? Parlez un peu? J'ai tellement besoin de pratiquer...Josh, pshaw boy. We'll teach you to find English interesting :)— April 21, 2009 3:59 p.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
Sorry for the typos, folks. Need a full night's sleep :0— April 21, 2009 9:46 a.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
John McCain: Could I just mention one other thing about this. I disagree with the 10-year figure. I talked to the independent petroleum producers who said, "Look, we can do some of this in a matter of months. We can do a lot more of it … in a matter of just a short period of time." And it's … Couric: Don't they have a vested interest in saying that, though, Senator? McCain: Well, they have the capability. And I don't think they're not telling the truth. I mean, they're the ones who are out there doing it. But I agree … with Governor Palin. What's the moral of this story? We should have done it a long time ago. But the point is that it also does have an effect on the futures, on the price of a barrel of oil. And many disagree with that. But I know that when they think that there's, when anybody market forces believe there's gonna be an increase in the supply then obviously the price of that commodity goes down, whether it's oil or any other supply and demand situation. And finally one other thing: India and China are drawing on basically a finite resource in the world. So we may have an additional supply to help us bridge between our dependence on oil and natural particularly oil … and the future, which is alternate energy. Palin: Yeah. Couric: Gov. Palin, I know you'd like to see drilling take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And Sen. McCain, you oppose this. You call it, quote, "one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world." McCain: Uh huh. Couric: Who's right? McCain: Did you expect two mavericks to agree on - (laughter) to agree on everything? Look, I … we just have, we'll be talking more and more about this issue. We do agree on the off-shore drilling and other means of limiting our dependence on foreign oil. But for us to agree on everything would make us, I think, a little boring. You can … say a lot about us, but we're anything but boring. Couric: Who's gonna cave on this issue? Palin: I don't think there's any need to characterize anything as caving. We'll continue to work together on this issue. And that issue is domestic supplies of energy being tapped, flowing into very, very, very hungry markets across our U.S. And we are on the same page there in seeking solutions to reach that goal. Couric: At peak production, governor … McCain: I wanna go and moose-hunt with her. And then we can, maybe we can have a look.— April 21, 2009 9:42 a.m.