It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
In a piece of breaking news, a man was attacked by a shark this morning in Solana Beach while he was swimming with friends, but as I read the story, it struck me that this LA Times piece seems to be exactly the kind of story that will generate a fantastic response. The first clue [...]
In the mail just now arrived the strangest political mailer I’ve ever received. It was sent to me by the good people over at John Hartley for City Council and a banner across the top reads “I apologize!” Hartley moves on to explain to his confused potential constituents (this one included) what it is he’s [...]
We were passing the San Diego Zoo one afternoon this week, northbound on Park Boulevard, and as we overtook a bus that had stopped to deposit and load passengers, I got a glimpse of an ad slicked across the side. In the ad there was an image of an athletic fellow drinking from a gallon [...]
So it turns out (in a very loose causal connection) that blogging might kill you if you get stressed enough about it. The death factor comes, apparently, from the incessantly instantaneous demands of the internet information cycle. Now, I certainly know what this article is talking about it because I, for one, stay up thinking [...]
So this word for memory-devices comes from an old Greek word that sort of means “mindful,” and today as I’ve been looking up medical mnemonics, I was struck by one clever aspect of them: they are designed to be provocative or even partly offensive. In fact, it seems that the more dramatically they can provoke [...]