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Ephemera
The question is -- are these items worth $23,595 and could that money have been put to better use by the library, such as the purchase of more books for the shelves or for those in the community who cannot afford books; that money could also have paid for several student employees who need the job to help them go through school (or the partial paycheck for one full time employee). The purchase of such letters and manuscripts should be for future use by scholars and students who are writing papers or books on the subject; these documents would assist in research or make for interesting footnotes. As Synder is a minor Beat poet, and seldom a subject of any significant acadmeic research, I fail to see the justification of such a high price for mere correspndence, a postcard, and instructions for taking care of a cat. At best, these items may have been worth $2,000.— June 11, 2008 6:59 p.m.
SDReader.com Launch Party
No one moshes like Don.— June 1, 2008 6:40 a.m.
Reader Party at the W
I missed on talking to Decker as I don't know what he looks like. I chatted with Potter, Frank, the people from the PR firm, a woman in the ad sales dept., the husband of our webmaster, Barbarella, Woo, Navy Wife & friend (seems we have a mutual friend), Sue G., Jim, Cantore, the drink servers, a bevy of peeps who wanted me to write about their busineses, a couple of folk who wanted me to write about their lives ("Boy do I have story for you!"), one drunk fellow in his late 50s who crashed the party, was coming onto every woman there, and claimed to be "The Real" party crasher, a few hotel guests who wandered in, and a horde of others whom I did not know nor did I know why they were there. I also drank a lot of that Barbados rum. After, I had a craving for hot dogs so I went down to the 7-11 and observed one of the aprty guests, quite inebritaed, stumbling around the trolley stop.— June 1, 2008 6:30 a.m.
Haters
It did make international news. MTV and Time covered it. It's just a matter of which news outlet you go to...— May 6, 2008 10:25 a.m.
Dumb Cops (Is That Redundant?)
There are "cop groupies" in every city -- women who purposelly drive bad in order to get pulled over and....and....— April 18, 2008 7:47 a.m.
Dumb Cops (Is That Redundant?)
Craig Peyer is possibly the most notorious of the bad SD officers, and he still claims innocence. A book was written about the case on 1991, BADGE OF BETRAYAL, and over the past 10 years I have amassed a lot of information for a book I will get around to writing about Peyter and Knott called THE OAK GARDEN. A couple of years ago, a man in Ramona won a lawsuit against the CHP for an out of control CHP officer who was harrassing him endlessly because the guy turned the CHP officer in for some kind of personal vehicle violation; although there was clear evidence of harrassment and intimidation, the CHP still appealed the verdict. The MO of all governmental offices and institutions is to deny any wrong doings no matter how obvious and to appeal any verdict, no matter how just; and even if there is a settlement, to never admit to anything wrong. They cannot lose or admit they are wrong because it will open a floodgate of more claims and lawsuits, and make their position weaker in future civil cases.— April 17, 2008 9:59 p.m.
Dumb Cops (Is That Redundant?)
He won't get fired for that -- his PBX rep would claim freedom of speech. If the SDPD cop who shot up the car and the woman with a child in Oceanside last month can't get fired for that, and the DA's office will take "months" to determine whether to prosecute this obviously prosecutable case, you think a cop dressing up in KKK regalia would be fired...— April 17, 2008 2:02 p.m.
What has been your worst experience with the police?
Escerpt from an essay I have written on the topic -- 1992—My friend Jack came down from San Francisco to San Diego to take care of some business. He was staying at a hotel downtown. I went to see him and around one a.m. We decided to go out and get burritos. The Roberto’s on 8th and Market was still around then. Walking back, on Seventh Avenue and G Street, we were surrounded by several San Diego City Police cruisers and ordered to assume the position on the hood of one of the cars. Many flashlights were in our faces. There were eight of them, and they were all young, early twenties; also, they were oddly identical blonde men and women with hands hovering over their guns. I asked what this was about, why were we being hassled, and was told they got a tip at the arcade, three blocks away, that we were drug dealers. “That’s crazy,” Jack said, “we were getting food!” I knew this was a bogus excuse to rouse us, the same crapola cops use when they claim they thought they “heard a woman crying for help” as pretext to break down a door without a warrant. Our pockets were turned inside-out and the contents—lint, keys, and change—placed on the car’s hood. “This is baloney,” I said, “you can’t do this without cause.” One of the tall, barrel-chested cops leaned his mouth next to my ear and said, almost a whisper: “We can do whatever we want, buddy. We could put a bullet in you,” and he placed his Glock 9 mm. to my temple4, “I could shoot you and get away with it. Where are the witnesses? My crew will back me up.” Crew. One of his fellow officers told him to put the gun away, now. He did, and told me: “Keep cool. We want your friend, not you.”— April 17, 2008 1:56 p.m.
Gore Vidal fundraising for Floyd Morrow
Mr. Vidal and I used to share the same publisher, Thunder's Mouth Press, an imprint of Avalon Publishing (now defunct after a controversial 2007 bankruptcy of the parent company, PGW). I met him at the publisher's office in 2002 for a launch party of one of his books. If it is not about him, it does not exist in his world.— April 17, 2008 1:45 p.m.
Death by Crutch, Downtown-Style
I wanted to see that Springsteen and E Street Tribute band when they played there a few weeks ago, but I was out of town. Next time. Is this a topic to discuss in a homicide forum..."tribute bands as the murder of the real"...— April 16, 2008 10:19 a.m.