(All photos for this entry are posted here) Saturday night rolled around, and I headed south into Barrio Logan to check out Jimmy & Co (aka Bologna Ponies) play. After their burlesque show appearance in North Park, they had been asked to play at the Technomania Circus. Their punchy-sideshow sound fits well with the circus. …
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Talk me out of it.
While I love my Fuji F810, it has always suffered from a lack of filters. But this certainly isn’t the fault of the camera, no one expects that out of a pocketable point and shoot. Maybe its better to say that I suffer from a lack of filters. I find that many times the photo …
Worth the wait
Kung Food is back. Sort of. Its not the same people, but its the same location, and the same name. They have split into two parts, a pseudo drive-through, and a cafe. The cafe serves mostly prepared foods, and I’m not that big a fan (seems I’m not the only one). The Kung Food drive-through …
I’m a leftist puritan grinch or, buy your way to a merry Christmas
Tom is on a roll; another interesting These Days on KPBS. The topic for this segment is consumerism and the holidays. His guests were Kalle Lasn of Adbusters, the always entertaining Rev Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Philip Gay, professor and chairman of the sociology department at San Diego State University. …
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Big surf
Anna and I drove from La Jolla to Mission Beach yesterday to run some errands. A lot of people, but the sights were pretty impressive. The waves were breaking far off the coast, and were huge. Even though they broke, they still had enough energy to maintain a lot of power, all the way to …