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John Brizzolara passes away
I've missed T.G.I.F. for a while now. I've also missed those stories about handymen, derelicts and those cut from an odd sort, whose tales were told through a filter of dark flowing ooze. It was never hard to relate to your truths or to find something familiar in your toybox of words that you chose to string together. Their sharp edges delivered with blunt force ( sometimes) . Thanks John. I never met you but I was truly sad when I read that you passed; I'm turning sixty tomorrow, barely outrunning the tall man and his scythe. For whatever it's worth, people you never knew, appreciated you. It doesn't get much better than that.— October 23, 2016 4:22 p.m.
Signature-gatherer falsely claims petition will save Comic-Con
Last night, I had a woman come to my house around 8:30 pm here in RB trying to gather signatures for the same thing. This woman, however, stated they wanted to increase the hotel tax in order to build the stadium as well as expand the convention center to keep conventions ( such as Comic-Con) here in San Diego . She really could not provide any additional information. To be honest, I got a little upset because she said she had obtained my name from voter registration records and wanted me to sign a petition to get this on the ballot. I figured that instead of standing in front of a grocery store where many signatures would ultimately be deemed invalid ( not registered voters) now people are going to voters homes to get a valid signature and a couple bucks. Why the hell does the Registrar Of Voters release names to these people? I didn't register to vote to be placed on a solicitation list for these door to door paid signature gatherers; Daniel Vu, are you listening?— June 3, 2016 5:40 p.m.
Excessive police force in pursuit of Cheetos bandit?
Your right Mister Harris; the amount of police response was unwarranted if we were to believe you that all the man did was steal a bag of Cheetos. Just another case of the police department pulling out all stops to go after someone because of their race. But wait a minute, you forgot to mention that he punched a employee and then wrestled with another before running away. Was it because you saw that as an insignificant part of this story not worthy of a mention? Or was it because it did not fit into Sharpton's usual method of explaining only a part of the whole story to elicit a response? What if the clerk was your son or father or daughter or sister? Would you still think the response was blown out of proportion? What about the next time this person steals, gets caught and assaults someone perhaps even more seriously? What about the seventh paragraph down where you talk about what the store clerk knew ( or didn't know) and further down you admit that your group has not even talked to him yet? And why the hell would he want to talk with you or your group? Finally you ask rhetorically what would happen if this took place in La Jolla? If I walked into a store in La Jolla and stole nothing but punched some worker and wrestled another then ran out, I'm pretty sure that the cops would be looking for me. Nice touch bringing up Rodney King, Travon Martin and Michael Brown by the way, that should ratchet up the anger level a few more notches.— April 1, 2016 10:29 a.m.
Charter-school backer buys hefty stake in Union-Tribune
I was surprised to learn that not quite 17% of Tribunes stock is valued at over 44 million clams. Seems overvalued for something whose analog days are numbered. I also was intrigued by Ferro's statement, " Some of the biggest companies in the world are using our data ( Tribune Publishing) and making billions of dollars on it, and we need to find a way how we tap into that." What data would that be? And multiple companies are making billions off of it? Off of what I wonder,,,,,, I'm thinking maybe the Trib's seemingly over-inflated value could be used as collateral while shopping at Megalo CharterSchoolMart— February 6, 2016 11:35 a.m.
Oh, Mother's, what have you done?
Shavonda ( according to Google) also is suing Advanced Pierre Foods for using PHO in their Fast Bites sandwiches. "Hawkins says she repeatedly purchased and ate the microwave snacks “based on the natural assumption that food sold in stores by large companies would not have unsafe and unlawful ingredients". She seeks to represent other U.S. shoppers who also bought the nine frozen sandwich products, including the Spicy Chicken, BBQ Rib and Chili Cheese Hotdog varieties, since 2008. She also has or had lawsuits going against Gerbers and Nestles. I'm guessing she has found a way to make a living where being a parasite pays off.— January 29, 2016 8:19 a.m.
The black woman’s fall from grace
Something else we can blame whitey for, stripping the black woman of all power and authority before exiling her from her throne. But what else should you expect from these "greedy, selfish, licentiousness gluttons"? There is much about this article that warrants discussion not the least of which is why the author has so much hatred for a specific group of people even going so far as blaming them for all societal evils, stripping away mans uniqueness and spirituality with an end goal of conspiring to remove all humanity from the world. Really? I suppose blaming others in an overt and racist way may give it a perspective that makes sense to you and even give you another direction in which to voice your hatred and lay blame but the sad truth is a century from now it will still be someone else's fault and very little will have changed.— December 31, 2015 1:24 p.m.
Thanksgiving hunger strike
Perhaps we can persuade councilwoman Lorie Zapf to forgo carpeting her offices and take that 475 thousand ( yes, thousand) dollars and buy one way plane tickets for those awaiting deportation.— November 30, 2015 12:30 p.m.
People who write books are smarter than everyone else. Everyone knows this.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2015/n…— November 18, 2015 9:57 p.m.
People who write books are smarter than everyone else. Everyone knows this.
So I want to know,,,,,, are we ever going to see some new, churning, twisted, writhing, 2.0 type incarnation of T.G.I.F? I always thought that your writing served you very well. I remember, somewhere along the way, you wrote a gen-u-wine Reader cover story and not too many had taken notice. I think it was after your T.G.I.F daze. Anyway It deserved better. Bring the column back, I mean, why the fu#k not right?— November 18, 2015 9:50 p.m.
Big Brother — no Holding Company — for O.B.
On one hand allocating 50K to the police department may be a good thing. However that still leaves 425 THOUSAND dollars of taxpayer money to carpet Zapf's office. Really? For carpet? Can someone explain to me just how that makes any sense? Who will receive the contract for the carpet installation and who in the city administration offices are they related to?— November 18, 2015 7:09 a.m.