Update San Diego 6/01/2010
Was down by the new Hilton Hotel by the bay. There are a lot of rock crabs on these rocks and they are fun to watch. The other day I seen two of then dueling it out for a rock. …
Breaking News: President Announces Need to Reform Incident Liability Law; BP Responds
President Barack Obama called today for the prosecution of any criminal acts leading to and during the BP oil leak crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. The President stated, "If the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such …
How to Pick a Pit Bull
A few years ago, a counselor told me that I have a low tolerance for stupidity. Add ignorance to that, and you have my view on the controversy surrounding pit bulls. After yet another vicious attack that made headlines in …
Memorial Day Massacre
Amazing Graze
I just want the magazine!
Have you heard of or seen Community Magazine? I think it comes out quarterly and is filled with restaurant coupons and advertising. There is an Uptown edition, covering Hillcrest & surrounding areas. There is a Downtown edition which is mostly …
A Torchlight Tattoo Memory for Memorial Day
I was never in combat, but I was in the infantry right after the Vietnam Conflict. Just about anybody who knows anything about the history and organization of the United States Army will call me crazy for writing this, but …
ROBERTO CARLOS
May 26, 2010 San Diego Sport Arena ROBERTO CARLOS IN CONCERT Last Wednesday we watched the great Brazilian singer ROBERTO CARLOS in The San Diego Sport Arena. ROBERTO CARLOS, actually a romantic singer has 50 years of career, he is …
AC/DC
AC/DC AC/DC always AC/DC!!!! Remember Bon Scott!. He had his time, a good time to take off the Band… Since 1973 the Band play their instruments for Rock ‘n Roll and after 1980 at present, without Bon Scott, but AC/DC …
I think... then I'm!
Dear, I want show my vision about the world of people, the animal and the things. Carlos Tortoza
Memorial Day--It's Certainly More Than About Barbecues!
"Remember The Heroes/ Who Fought For The Right To Choose!" --Sammy Hagar, from "Remember The Heroes" on VOA To many folks, Memoprial Day means three things: Barbecues, Auto Racing (Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600), and the unofficial "First Day Of …
Flags On Graves Always Make Me Cry
Flags on graves always make me cry it was the 3rd year in Smallville that Bobby and i began to make Memorial Day memories we were newcomers...a title we would hold for 16 years...from the day we came til the …
Liberty Station Grifters
They showed up one day, right before the holidays. Two young kids decked out in Christmas garb, but shabby. They weren't really kids, they were at that in-between age of 17 and 20, she looking the part of the 17 …
My friend Glenna
CPUC Scolding of PG&E Regarding Anti-CCA Advertising & Prop. 16?
SDG&E; Claimed Corporate Political Ads Protected by 1st Amendment... But Even If Misleading/False? A recent decision by the California Public Utilities Commission ("Decision 10-05-050 May 20, 2010") appears to warn Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E;) and other investor-owned power utilities …
Tundra # 20
Elaine was never really the same after Tundra’s death, and, surprisingly, neither was Mushroom. Elaine had been crushed when Tundra had changed, and now his breaking of her heart was complete. Elaine embraced the habit of pacing slowly through the …
Luna House--Life And Death In The San Luis Rey Valley
"Home, Home again! I Like To Be Here--When I Can!/ And when I come home, cold and tired-- it's good to warm my bones beside the fire!" --from "Time" by Pink Floyd. In October of 1986, I had just been …
A Memorial Day .....Thank You.
A Mexicali Chinese New Year
Before washing up in San Diego last year just in time for the Padres’ unremarkable season, I lived as an expatriate “gweilo” in Hong Kong for 20 years. In Hong Kong, I cultivated a taste for exotic south China cuisine …
An American Dream