There Was a Young Lady That Lived in a Shoe...
By now everyone has heard the story. I hadn't even planned on blogging on it, because I don't even know where to start. The woman that gave birth to octuplets. Apparently, all 14 of her children were conceived via vitro …
The Dog Blog -- Acquiring a Mutt
So the last time I wrote about the dog, we were second on the list to get this little white puffy bundle of fur. It was a matlepoo, and we were second on the list. I had planned to show …
Homelessness
The Pittsburgh Steelers are Super Bowl Champs. Congratulations. And it wasn't one of those lopsided blow-out games that happen often in the Super Bowl. Springsteen was certainly energized & made good choices on the songs he sang. All in all, …
The Mysterious Tenor of Hillcrest
A Wish That Came True
Saturday on the Sand
In this installment, OB in HD takes it to the sand, on a sunny and unseasonably warm Saturday in late January. With a high temperature in the upper 70s and not a cloud in the sky, Ocean Beach was ablaze …
My Neighborhood 'The Streets of Kearny Mesa'
I suspect that the last thing that the powers to be at The San Diego Reader were expecting or looking for when they created this contest was a entry from someone living in a sleeping bag. Nevertheless here goes. There …
Miracle Trash
Trees and Parrots
San Diego is loaded with scenic beauty, and the neighborhood of Ocean Beach is one of the city's treasure troves of visual delights. In the OB in HD series, we point a Canon HV-30 at eye candy all around Ocean …
In Praise of Golden Hill
Super Bowl 43 vs President 43
Is there any doubt that Super Bowl 43 is going to be a lot better than President 43? Some years the Super Bowls don't get anyone excited. The last few years we've been lucky. And it's great to hear all …
Honking at the Homeless
Yesterday morning I was running late, and of course Murphy's Law...I drove up to an accident. It probably happened an hour earlier. But the idiots in front of me all had to slow down at look at the mangled vehicle …
Super Bowl
THE SUPER BOWL on Sunday, February 1st. If some of you have forgotten since the last playoff game (the delay must be due to TV coverage), the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing against the Arizona Cardinals. The game is being played …
Talking with Peter Max
Artist Peter Max is arguably the most famous living artist. I talked to him recently, and the conversation seemed to keep going back to music. He talked about his studio in New York, that’s 30,000 square feet. He told me …
Separate Yet One
It was below 40 degrees this morning as I stood at a high spot overlooking lower Otay Lakes. It's sunny, but for San Diego, especially east Chula Vista, THAT is cold! But it's midweek of the last week into my …
Monster Truck Shows -- death of a 6 and 93-year-old
My girlfriend and I walked in the other day and turned the TV on. There was a story about a 93-year-old man that froze to death. Now, sometimes the stories about a person freezing to death make sense. It could …
Paperwhites in the Brush
Straight From The Heart... And Blogging For A Cause
Anyone who knows me knows that I am rarely at a loss for words, however a few weeks back, as I watched the news, one of the clips of the night tugged at my heartstrings. On the screen chatting with …
100 Point Basketball Game
As a kid, I'd read anything I could about the old-time basketball players. Their stories always fascinated me. There was the New York Knicks teams in the early 70s, with an injured Willis Reed coming out and helping them win …
The City-State of San Diego?
After the ballot measure to stack something like a football stadium on top of a seaport loading terminal and the South Bay airport-island patent (those proposals are/were real, so far as I am not making them up), I thought that …