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Bologna Ponies at the Technomania Circus
(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 appearanc…
Oh, Canada.
Interesting things are happening up north . Harper & the conservatives ousted the liberals from power. Harper is now the PM, and Martin has stepped down. I thought Martin was doing a decent job, but h…
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 t…
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 f…
More SD politics
About damned time: Mayor Jerry Sanders on Wednesday asked all City Council-appointed trustees of the city's troubled pension system to step down . They were put there by crooks , and are still running…
SD Votes, again.
District 8 doesn't have great choices. The campaigns have been short on facts, and heavy on mud-slinging. Both candidates have plenty of mud to sling at each other. VoteNoneOfTheAbove.info is starting…
Photography rights
Ever wonder if you are allowed to take photos of something? Wonder no more. Andrew Kantor has a guide up on his website , and a new article at USAToday . Good info, I recommend everyone take a look. L…
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…
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 th…
Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can't fault Jim Kunstler's view of recent development in Calgary - "..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized c…