Ok, El Oso has frozen all my assets (liquid and solid) until I start posting again, so here it is! In all it’s feigned glory!
Sorry about the absence, but I’ve been “busy” with some “stuff” if you catch my drift.
I just saw this move by Todd Solonz called “Happiness” released in 1998. Boy [...]

PB Block Party 2004 offered further and probably unnecessary support to Pacific Beach’s claim as capitol of:

flame and star tattoos
short trimmed goattees
wife beaters
bud light, MGD, tapped kegs, and 40’s in paper bags
lip gloss
beach cruisers
sublime cover bands
rainbow flip flops
ray ban sunglasses
hair gel
reggae-punk stoners
camel lights
the mini skirt

And as you can see from the previous post, there were [...]

There’s no doubt about it, if you want to visit San Diego during a festive time it should be late April, early May. First there is the Encinitas Street Fair, then Art Walk and Earth Day. Then there is Coachella and Adam’s Avenue Roots Festival. Then Cinco de Mayo and finally to top off the [...]

I’ve begun putting up photos from past travels up on the

I am terribly behind pace in my reality fuel list so I am resigned to cheating. Completely read issues of The Believer and Audio Books will now be counted.
My updated Reality Fuel list:

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
The Zapatista Reader edited by Tom Hayden
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
The History of the United [...]

Via this article, I learned today that the White House will “impose tighter restrictions on so-called “educational travel” to Cuba by American groups, which have increased in recent years and are widely considered de facto tourism.” Bush said in a meeting today that the new restrictions were part of “a strategy that says we’re not [...]

Just after posting that last bit I found a very interesting exchange of letters and a response by Huntington here on the FP website. (they annoyingly ask you to register)
Here is what my old advisor, Wayne Cornelius wrote:

A good friend emailed me a while ago with another article about Huntington’s FP essay and soon to be published book, Who We Are which sets out to define what is an American. I’ve added it to the “hispanic challenge” forum.