The Inquisitive Tongue: Nanette Wiser's Good Dish
Let's Eat San Diego: In honor of Cosmo Queen Helen Gurley Brown's August passing, let's all drink martinis this month. Pear, traditional cranberry cosmopolitan ok, as long as it's Grey Goose. After all, "Good girls go to heaven but, bad …
Rosarito Tourism Commission says US alert on Mexico travel is all a ploy
[Translated by Fulano from an article in El Sol de Tijuana.] Playas de Rosarito.- The Tourism Commission of the Rosarito city council believes that the security alert on Mexico, issued by the United States government, is a strategy to prevent …
Robbiebear's In Love!
We've known each other since 1993-- we first met on the Open Unit at Tri-City BHU in Oceanside. She shared her Black Forest Chocolate Cake with me. Now she has proved as sweet as that kirsch-laden treat! Pam's her name, …
Be A Jerk At Pacific Beach Bar & Grill
Okay, so P.B. Bar & Grill isn't known for their barbecue. Heck, P.B. Bar & Grill isn't even a BBQ spot. We San Diegans affectionately know it as "The Grill;" one of the more popular and most patronized drinking wells …
The OSD Chronicles - Part 8
JAN 1 -Despite what I felt were several setbacks for the OSD movement in December, I began the year 2012 with high hopes (I have a copy of the Mayan prophecy for the date 4Ahau 3Kankin/23December2012. It aint over folks). …
Adios Loomis Armored Truck Service
Sweetwater Union High School District Board Meeting Tonight!
If anyone is out there and cares about what is happening in the SUHSD, there is a Board Meeting tonight starting at 5pm. They will finish the June 2012 meeting, then go to closed door session at 6:10 then the …
The Principles Of Success.
We read and hear about successful people all the time, so how do they do it? How is it they achieved their measure of success? When we study them we find they are people just like everyone else, the difference …
Stop SCE and SDG&E RIPOFF at SAN ONOFRE NUKE
SCE and SDG&E have blown 2 Billion dollars of rate payers money on SAN ONOFRE NUKE plant on failed project to refurbish plant for relicensing. Now they want to continue spending 54 Million a month to fix the plant with …
Race is a Bogus Concept
I posted this essay at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/aug/15/art-review-racial-memory-john-valadez/?c=127111 this morning, but I am duplicating it here because the subject is not perfectly "suited" to that article. "Racial" memory? Isn't it high-time we all debunked the whole phony concept of "race." It is …
The Currency of Current Seas
No Air in North Park, Stand in Someone Else's Doorway
It's hot. Like head-in-the-oven hot. And only today did I walk through my apartment courtyard and think, when I go into my non air-conditioned apartment, I might not immediately start sweating. I might not be instantly suffocated by the pent …
Education News in the Sweetwater Union High School District
So is anyone out there? Is anyone within the district following what is going on? Tonight's blog will focus on two issues - 1) Open boundaries; 2) Melo Roos. Did you know that the district now has open boundaries - …
entertain me
entertain me awhile longer just for fun groovy tuesday imagine short people tall tall people short vanilla that tastes like chocolate and chocolate that tastes like chicken who you - kidding wishing real for winds to cross my pond more …
140 lbs gone since 8/25/2011
August 25th, 2011-- they do not hold out much hope for me. My CHF is going heavy-duty, and I've got pulmonary edema, to boot. Looks like Death will be coming for me, after all. October 25th, 2011-- At the Vista …
Five Principles of Sikhism and How to Apply Personally, and to Business.
As with all tragic events, like the one that took place in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, comes an opportunity. The opportunity to learn. If we learn what the Sikh's live and abide by; 5 principles, or fundamentals …
Cultural Language
"Amin, I see you as someone incredibly unique. You're not 100% Iraqi, and you're not 100% American," says a good Iraqi friend of mine as we drink tea in front of his restaurant in the Gaslamp. "I feel like you …