Downtown living
About living downtown. It can be wonderful one moment, crazy the next. Quiet one moment, noisy the next. It was a lovely quiet during the rain on Friday morning. Until those guys started power washing F St. It was raining!! …
The Five Great Pillars of Siri
Aria looked up. "They're gone," she said. "All of them." Then she cried, "We can't pass." * There are five steel I-beams at Iris Trolley Station. They are at the far end of the station, where cement meets endless dirt …
Miley Cyrus Dating Habits -- And Celebrity Parents
A few celebrity stories caught my eye over the weekend. One was John Travolta being involved in an extortion plot. Someone said they took photos of his dying son in the ambulance and that they'd sell them to the tabloids …
The Dog Blog II -- The Maltese Falcon
So my girlfriend and I had gone to all the shelters. We spent lots of time on this thing. We'd drive down to Chula Vista to see one dog, and we wouldn't care for it, or other people already had …
A Memorial
Sports Shorts -- LT and high school violations
A few of the local sports stations (the ones that haven't fired their hosts, anyway), are talking about how the Chargers are handling the LaDanian Tomlinson situation. It's a good topic, but really, if you're a Chargers fan, you're kind …
Restaurant Week
Well, another Restaurant Week done for me. Tonight we returned to a favorite place, Kous Kous Moroccan Bistro in Hillcrest. We were greeted at the door by the man in charge, Moumen Nouri. Gracious and upbeat as always. We were …
The Adams Avenue Simulator
Yesterday, about 5:30PM I was driving up Adams Avenue. To those who know me that would be enough to have you thinking, hmmm, she was driving? It was getting dark. Why would she be doing that? I had somewhere to …
Thoughts About The Clear Channel Massacre
The mass pinkslipping of 9 percent of the Clear Channel employees this past Tuesday just reminds us on how low commercial radio has become for the newer generations ahead of myself. It's sadder to think that a burger flipper at …
And the Oscar Goes To....
I saw the list of Oscar nominations. A lot of what everyone would expect...Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Buttons getting loads of award nominations. Same with Doubt, Milk, and all the usual suspects. I saw that there was no Clint Eastwood, …
Seniors Take Back the Sidewalk
They’ve really pissed me off this time. Never mind that they don’t make eye contact that I can understand, maybe they’re just shy. But when they’re not willing to begrudge me my half of the sidewalk, I have zero tolerance. …
Blood and Chlorine
The other day I was at LA Fitness, having just finished a few games of basketball. I don't usually get there at noon, and when I walked in there were so many people I decided instead of waiting 20 minutes …
A Walk Into History
Inauguration Day
Wow, what a fantastic, emotional, uplifting, glorious, historic day. January 20, 2009, will be a day to remember for a long, long time. We, as Americans, can once again be proud. I feel like thanking everyone who came out to …
The Dog Blog
So I decided to get a dog. As a kid, my older brother and I always hounded my parents for one. But, we had two things going against us. When we had pet lizards and snakes (which we caught in …
Keep on keepin' on
I first saw him last summer. He was carrying a tarp covered backpack. His skin had the color and consistency of an old Dale Murphy edition Rawlings baseball mitt. He wore a soup-catcher that would make Sam Beam jealous. He …
Sports
Baseball is Life, everything else is just details. At Petco Park, the section I sit in, developed into a "family" type atmosphere. If someone wasn't at a game, we wondered if something was wrong. Most of the time people advised …
When black smoke hits your eye from a big pizza pie, that's amore
I finally got around to reading the last issue of the Reader. And when I came to Barbs column about making pizza, two things happened. It made me crave pizza the entire weekend. I thought I'd get my fill watching …
ALIEN LANDS IN PB
It was seven minutes past eleven when I found myself walking through my Pacific Beach neighborhood. I was alone. I was sober. I think I experienced what some refer to as a moment of clarity-- at least in my streaming …
Overrated Movies -- Gran Torino, Wrestler, Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire
I think Doubt lived up to the hype, although as we argued in an earlier thread, it didn't achieve it's main objective with me (which is, that you're supposed to have 'doubt' as to whether ot not Hoffman molested the …