December 2009
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“SAN DIEGO — Families, students, newlyweds, mourners — beachgoers of all sorts —...”
– San Diego Journal - A Debate Smolders Over Plan on Fire Pits - NYTimes.com
I’ve had so many great times around these fire pits, I would really hate to see them go, but if the city is being honest about the cost, man, that is a lot of money.
Other than that, I think it says something that...
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Thomas Paessler Band →
My friend Thomas, who I’ve mentioned before, released two EPs today, here. Thomas knows what it’s like to want music, but not have the funds to buy it, so Thomas has made these albums available free of charge!
The option is also there to donate to Thomas’s music making pursuits. As someone who is lucky enough to call Thomas a friend, I highly suggest this option. He deserves it.
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Neil Young — Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Just...
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El Otro Lado
When I came to Mexico, there was fear. Unacknowledged fear. This is, by far, the largest city I have ever lived in, so I thought the fear I had was the rational, keep-your-wits-about-you fear that accompanies any city of size.
Yesterday, however many of my friends in San Diego attended an annual cross-border Christmas celebration, La Posada Sin Frontera. I was at the event last year. The...
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“8. Now we come to a gift for $62.99, the infallible Zojirushi NHS-18 10-Cup...”
– The Twelve Gifts of Christmas - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Rice Cookers. One of the world’s un-sung wonders.
My mom taught me this at a young age. If I remember correctly, we were still using the same rice cooker she was given in college when I left for college.
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Beck — Qué Onda Guero
I’ve posted this song...
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The Slow Shock.
No matter how much you know about Culture Shock—how much you are aware of it as a concept, how many ways you think you know of working through it, how much of it you think you have already experienced—it will still creep in through the assorted orifices of your mind and one day you’ll almost get hit by a man in a Mercedes-Benz as you walk out of a corner store after buying milk and in that...
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NO-vel
Well, I am sorry to disappoint, but there is no novel. Life, work and lack of preparation all conspired to make writing slow and difficult, so here I am with November gone and nothing but some random scraps of writing about a guy with a weird name.
However, the constant thinking about writing prompted me to do more general writing. So I have actually written a few other things that are much...
