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Sleeper
I heard a Pads pitcher threw 10 pitches, all over 100 mph in a spring training game. What do you know about it?— March 7, 2012 3:14 p.m.
CIF Semifinals Schedule (Feb. 28)
Ha! You got burned, Gentile. Annie, I'm guessing you play for some team or another?— February 27, 2012 9:50 a.m.
Blogfight!
boys... boys...— February 17, 2012 1:25 p.m.
Moby Dick: Mechavich Steps in for Ailing Conductor
Interesting. How were his shows in Calgary received?'— February 14, 2012 11:24 a.m.
Talise Trevigne: San Diego Opera Moby Dick (1 of 2)
I stand rebuked. She's a singer and actor and not an orator. I guess it's disappointing when an artist of her caliber engages in the lamentable practice of corporate consultant speech. Bravo to you for your gently chiding line, "Have we heard statements like that before? Yes."— February 8, 2012 3:02 p.m.
Talise Trevigne: San Diego Opera Moby Dick (1 of 2)
Whether she walks the talk or not, the talk is still a lot of trite crap isn't it? The irony is that phrases such as "comfort zone," "human condition," "outside the box," "pigeon-holed" et cetera have become the new comfort zone, the new box, the new pigeon hole.. I'm disappointed to her Talise, whose singing and acting are superb, resort to such cliches.— February 8, 2012 1 p.m.
Board Games Hollywood's Latest Tonic to Mollify Bored Viewers?
I didn't pay any attention to the Smurfs. Hollywood depresses the crap out of me. It's board games and superheroes and video games, ultra-formulaic date movies, or gore. The alternative is (self-consciously) Indie movies, which are a mixed bag at best. Could somebody please just tell a good story.— February 1, 2012 2:21 p.m.
Board Games Hollywood's Latest Tonic to Mollify Bored Viewers?
Aren't these supposed to be the most creative people on earth? Doesn't anybody know how to write an original screen play anymore? Hollywood has been so incestuous for so long that the inbreeding has rendered the movie industry infertile.— February 1, 2012 12:40 p.m.
$10 Lunch (for two!): Cali Baguette Express
That dolphin statue is vaguely erotic.— January 31, 2012 4:53 p.m.
Donna Frye muses on San Diego strong mayor and district elections
I have to laugh when people sit in the comfort and safety of their American homes and type on their $1500 laptops, "I'm an anarchist." No, you're not. You think you want anarchy? Go to Mogadishu, Somalia. Go to Haiti. Anarchy reigns in those places. You won't like it. Your comfort, your safety, your laptop are all made possible by the non-anarchy (read: order, rule of law) of the first world.— January 27, 2012 3:23 p.m.