clogged arteries just for fun
It's Tuesday right? Passing by the fairgrounds, the aisles abandoned, the carnival rides so colorful they almost glow in the dreary dampness of the dawn. Dead, vulnerable stuffed animals in plastic bags lobbed on top of the trucks on their …
Update San Diego, 7/05/2011
The USS Chung-Hoon will be at the Tien Sa port in Danang July 15. NASA's sustainability base office building in Silicon Valley is on the boards. The NASA Ames Research Center will be in the building The building a 50,000 …
murder most foul
the Casey Anthony verdict brought to mind a situation that occurred in the little town in North Central Oregon i lived in for 16 years...a self defense or attempted murder case that never even went to trial i was surprised …
3 Day Weekend
Too much time. Always up to something expensive. excess. Eating and shopping. The one extra day does it. Thawed out the crab from Catalina Offshore . made crab cakes on red lettuce with avocado and lime. dinner tonight the Terra …
The One Million Person Lie
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin One thing you will see everywhere when reading up on Mexico is the oft told lie that one million Americans have retired there. This is the bandwagon approach to …
Heat Wave, Weather or Not
Here we go! Summer's first heat wave, and San Diego changes clothes like one big happy family arriving at the beach. From Otay Mesa to Escondido, Alpine to La Jolla, long sleeves and blue jeans slip off and T-shirts and …
sunny mornings
sunny mornings... are my joy my breath my peace tells me that things are going to be alright today sunny mornings... are clear pure and clean sounds like an alcoholic that didn't get drunk last nite sunny mornings... are my …
Spot on
A sentimental day spent in OB
Today I spent most of the day in Ocean Beach with one of my daughters . She lives with her Mom in Ramona and she was happy to get out of that heat...very happy. When I got divorced late in …
I wonder where is he ...
I wonder where is he when I am down . I forget about him when I am at my weakest . And ask for forgiveness when I get lost. I believe in him when I am strong. I feel his …
Molto Bene Espresso
In such a vibrant, culturally rich neighborhood as Hillcrest, it’s comforting to find an alternative to corporate chain coffeehouses. Open since April 2011, Caffé Vergnano 1882 on Fifth Avenue is a coffee connoisseurs diamond in the rough. Where “Made in …
57 minutes
57 minutes ago my friend Jan posted a photo on facebook of her husband, his mother, and her mother in law. In Marrakech, with their voting stubs. Momentous occasion. I met Jan two months ago at an art retreat in …
some and others...
some and others...some amaze you, others make you wonder...some are good listeners, others can't stop talking...some you love to death, others you want to kill...some embrace you, others you avoid...some are warm, others are cold...some love, others pretend...some are the …
Blogs: Who Reads 'Em?
Having spent quite some time on the Reader website, for many years as a reader, then a participant, I am winding down, getting tired, allocating my time to other things. It has been an interesting experiment. Here are some things …
Georgia O Keefe
plant your sensitive fingertips on my shoulders stroke in the vernal curving vines of lushness move them gingerly down my spine's intrique let my ribs flower with your exotic heated design leafy wanderings and viney expressions of such sensibility and …
Painted Desert
It's very exciting. Overnight the underbelly of the freeway at Rosecrans & PCH has been primed, a grid defined, and the beginning of a mural or a mosaic or ? Everyone on the streets is talking about it. I just …
Waterboarding and Abuse in Rosarito
Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over the face of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Although a variety of specific techniques are used in waterboarding, the captive's face …
Growing Up in San Carlos
A Romantic Ocean Beach Anniversary; Grunion Style
Bees at the beach.
It’s been sort of crazy over here at Worldwide Headquarters. The Communist continues to brainwash me relentlessly with E-mails and links from Bolivia, I had to rescue my stranded old Mercedes 300D bacon burner from the Baja desert, and there …