Sunday, November 16, 2008
You can tell fall has arrived in San Diego. Sure, every day is sunny and mild, but the change in season is obvious in the colors. You can see that these palm trees are being lit up by a sun that’s much more south in the sky than it is in July. Plus, the glorious [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
This is the finest pocket radio ever made. It is the Grundig 100 PE. It gets AM, FM stereo, and six shortwave bands. Here is a little gadget that achieves fantastic performance within a small package powered by two rechargeable AA batteries. Sure, it could use a fine-tuning control, but for what it is this [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ours is a society that has chosen to live by the sword. The story isn’t likely to have a happy ending.
Gardner Street School is a block north of Sunset Boulevard and a few blocks west of La Brea. I showed up here for first through fifth grade and I hadn’t been back inside the place since the last day of school in June of 1969. I used to walk half a block to buy the [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
OK, maybe it was one cricket, but you don’t see one of these every day.
Friday, September 26, 2008
If you live in earthquake country, this is a sight you’re likely to see in your neighborhood very soon.
Recent studies have shown that common bubblegum does a better job than steel when it comes to protecting old buildings from earthquakes. When the ground starts shaking, the bubblegum stretches without breaking, allowing the building to roll [...]
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Ocean Beach is one of the most fun parts of San Diego. Here we see the view west from a few blocks up Pescadero Avenue. I’m looking forward to winter. When this neighborhood gets a few inches of snow, people snowboard down the hill, off the ski jump and into the ocean, and then catch [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Smoking and campfires are forbidden in the Hollywood Hills.
Public compliance with these rules went up dramatically when the Authorities brought in some rattlesnakes to enforce the laws!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
A massive tidal wave of money is coming into the core of Hollywood. Maybe the rest of California and the nation and the world are all having problems in real estate, but the Entertainment Capitol of the World is getting a lot of new buildings and luxury condos.
Here’s a shot of the cluster of buildings [...]
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Less than four years after my last day living at Venice Beach, I get to enjoy a water view once again. This time around it is from the border between Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs. My office will be here by the end of September. This is a tremendous development!
OB is a place “where the [...]
The latest visitor to our tiny slice of unpaved suburbia is this bird, which hung out with us for a couple of hours before flying off. The bird and I watched one another for quite a while.
Who was this bird? Why did this bird choose this place? How come it was alone - don’t birds [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
This is my pencil. It is the legendary Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602. All discriminating writers recognize that this is the finest pencil ever produced. It is the Stradivarius of pencils. One of the reasons my ideas are so clever is that I’m using a better writing implement than most people.
Of course, not one of the [...]
Ocean Beach is one of the saner places in San Diego County. You’ll notice that the alcohol ban is a new sticker attached to the sign. That’s because San Diego has prohibited alcohol at the beach. You see, the local cops have a tradition of rioting when too many people gather in one place to [...]
This rather nervous-looking cat was named Dracula because of his fondness of going for the neck of anybody wearing perfume. They all had it coming. Already I have featured one of the other weird cats from the spring of 1974. Don’t worry, there’s more where this came from! We had 12 cats in the house [...]
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Here is a five-part presentation about the history of the drug laws. It’s a fascinating story, far more entertaining and bizarre than you might expect.
