Salome's Favorite Baptismal
Running in Normal Heights: The Unpredictable Familiarity
Dave & Busters
Amazing that our children are old enough to serve in the military, yet they're not old enough to go into Dave and Busters for lunch! Funny how the company will let our kids fight for their freedom, yet won't let …
When Cult Movies Ruled at Midnight
MIDNIGHT MOVIES, A LOCAL HISTORY: The '80s Part 1 July 29, 1983, Ken Cinema: First Known “Shadowcast” Fan Participation at a screening of Phantom of the Paradise! The Rocky Horror Picture debuted as a midnight movie at OB’s Strand Theater in …
Update Little Falls 3/1/2010
If non government pension funds are are all but nonexistent in the private sector in additiontion to full time employment jobs becoming noninexistant in the nongovernment private sector in the U.S., where will the middle class tax payers be?. As …
Think God Has Had Enough?
"What we got here is--failure to communicate!" --Strother Martin, from "Cool Hand Luke" (and the opening of "Civil War" by Guns & Roses). After I woke up this morning and performed my daily abulations, I flipped my Cricket Wireless cellphone …
TWITTER-PATED
one of those days when relieved of rain not pouring down like p*ss outta a boot drew me out and about for the day i thought about the Dog Show in Del Mar but decided against it instead i decided …
Your gas dryer has to be how high???
I know this has nothing to do with the city, but it just blows me away. As I was at work today (I'm a kitchen and bath designer at a big box store) I saw our appliance sale person working …
Confessions of a Concert Crasher
Following is one of the first articles I ever wrote for the Reader, back in the early '90s ------------------
What the Mainstream Blogosphere Won’t Tell You: Parenting is Easy
The parenting-industrial complex and their cohorts in the media would have us believe that raising children is a grueling enterprise, fraught with danger and self-sacrifice, offering only rare but important payoffs intangible to anyone but long-suffering primary caregivers. How many …
South Park Cat Tales: A Note To Mica About the Great Indoors (#9)
February 28, 2010 A.D.C. What a fine treat to hear from fellow feline bloggers! Mica, it is a joy to make your cat-quaintance. Two Legs read me your introduction and story of the short-lived escape attempt. However, I must point …
The Strain of the Rain
The Hare Krishna Late Nite Critical Reality Krush
Something’s happening at the fountain - cyclists, hundreds, riding in circles, whooping out nonsense, cracking cold Rock Stars, wailing on kazoos. Tall bikes, long bikes, loud bikes, bright bikes, all zipping around in an absurd whirlwind, blasting Michael Jackson, howling …
The City, Its employees, their associations.
The story of how San Diego's employees got where they are started around 1960, when the City petitioned the Federal Government for the authority to create their own retirement and health care system for their employees. The did this to …
A Little Love for TJ
Tijuana moves, but never hurries. Tijuana makes music, makes mischief, makes noise, makes news, makes sense, makes nonsense, makes no apologies, and makes you feel welcome. Tijuana makes do, makes it work, makes a hard life look easy, makes u.s. …
I am not a team player
It was Monday when I was accosted by the mom crew at my kid’s school. They were standing near the picnic benches in their yoga pants and mesh hoodies. The short one with the thighs that could split my body …
Working (?) at the Streets Division
There appears to be another potential to save money in the City's budget. I have personally seen ineptitude in the Streets Division. I do not know if these are City employees, if they are outsourced, if they are union, etc. …
27 Just after noon
Saturday mornings are fun. We usually take the dogs to garage sales with us. It was raining this morning. Not many garage sales. We did go to the bi-annual rummage sale at Madrid Manor. Old people and there stuff! The …