Month: October 2015

By Bob Dorn

Time for another look at politics 2015.

No, no, no, don’t go back to Ultimate Fighting, or The Kardashians, or wondering whatever became of Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake or that kid on Via Amnesia named Justin whose pants keep falling below his crack.

Forget the distractions for a moment and try to focus on wtf is going on.

Let’s look at the S-words, and the J-word.

One S-word is Sanders, short for Bernie Sanders. Another S-word is Socialist, that’s the elephant in the room. …

Oh yeah, there’s a J-word. What’s the J stand for? Just a minute, I gotta check a text coming in.

Stretch of I-8 From OB One of Top 5 for DUI Deaths

OB Library Hosts Wordsmith Richard Lederer

Special Meeting of OB Planners – ‘Deviations to the FAR?’ – Wed., Oct 21

Surfing and Skateboarding to be Official Olympic Sports in Japan in 2020

Bitcoms come to OB

AND MUCH MORE ……………..

By South OB Girl

It has been an active month on the coastline of Ocean Beach. Two sea walls are under construction– one at the end of Bermuda Avenue and a second sea wall at the end of Pescadero Avenue.

The Bermuda project is being done by Soil Engineering Construction, which also did the previous sea wall at Bermuda. The Pescadero project is being done by J.C. Baldwin Construction Company.

During my visit, boulders were piled high on Bermuda Avenue waiting to be hauled away in giant trucks and recycled at Fiesta Island.

Introduction

The beautiful Sunset Cliffs that stretch from the residential southern portions of Ocean Beach to the lower reaches of the uninhabited sections of Point Loma are certainly a world-renown, indescribably gorgeous treasure of nature that line the land’s border with the Pacific. At the right moment when the ocean earns its name and the Cliffs earn theirs, the beauty and serenity cannot be amply replicated by the pen – or keyboard. Yet these same cliffs with their jagged rocks and crashing surf are also very unforgiving in their encounters with unwary humans, where death and distress accompany their collision with this abrupt edge between ocean and peninsula.

By Seth Augenstein / Laboratory Equipment / Oct. 14, 2015

Style and function don’t always dictate fashion. But being environmentally aware is almost always de rigueur.

A bikini developed by a team at the University of California, Riverside is made of a material that repels water but absorbs harmful contaminants – meaning a day at the beach can also be a public service.

By Jeeni Criscenzo/ San Diego Free Press

Now that the weather is cooling off a bit, my attention is turning back to my garden. The oppressive heat of the past two months pretty much silenced the siren call of my garden.

Resigned that my vegetable garden this summer was a total disaster, I had removed all of the fencing that kept the chickens out of my raised beds.

San Diego City Works Press’ distinctive approach to book as object

Editor: Here is Anna Daniels’ intro to an anthology on the underside of the San Diego – Tijuana region, “Sunshine/ Noir II“, which was just published by City Works Press – and includes a work by Anna Daniels herself, plus works by Doug Porter, Brent Beltran and OB Rag editor Frank Gormlie. Daniels, Porter, Beltran and Gormlie are also editors at the San Diego Free Press, where this was originally published.

By Anna Daniels

“Books are now obsolete, so the library bureaucracy has long sought to become a quasi adult education institution or after-school study venue or someplace in between.” – Former California Assemblyman Larry Stirling on the Central Library.

Contrary to former California Assemblyman Larry Stirling’s recent misinformed and exceedingly dull assertion that “books are now obsolete” the book publishing industry is doing quite fine. It is only doing so well because there continues to be people who want to own and read books, whether in hard copy, paperback or electronic form.

One San Diego Household Used an Astonishing 4.6 Million Gallons in One Year

By John Lawrence

Hey, we’re in a drought and people are being encouraged to take shorter showers and only wash their cars sparingly. But that doesn’t apply to the rich. They are using millions of gallons of water and neither the state or local water districts are limiting them in any way.

The water bill for a 11.8 million gallon user in Bel Air for the 12 months ending April 1 was $90,000. This guy was only charged 0.76 cents a gallon! No wonder he consumed water excessively; it was so cheap! California is in the fourth year of a water crisis, but the rich are using water as if there were no tomorrow.

Acknowledging the Playwright Project’s
“Deborah Salzer Excellence in Arts Education Award”

By Ernie McCray

Being recognized
for any contribution
I’ve made to the arts
is like being recognized
for breathing
a breath,
like being identified
for being myself –
as I was raised by a mother
and a grandfather
and a great-aunt
and cousins
and a church
and more than a handful of neighbors …

Ocean Beach Historical Society Program
The Sisters of O.B.
Thurs. Oct. 15, at 7 pm

From OBHS:

The OB Historical Society Program this Thursday, October 15th is “The Sisters of O.B” by Sister Marie Louise Flick RSCJ, at the P.L. United Methodist Church, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd., O.B. The nuns who live/ lived in O.B. are an important part of the history of Ocean Beach, San Diego and California.

Long-time OB local and photographer Albert C Elliott captured this moment and labeled it “A Bird’s Eye View”. Thanks ACE.

San Diego’s Climate Mobilization Coalition is calling for a “Climate Action Demonstration” at noon in downtown San Diego on Wednesday, October 14th.

It will be held at the Federal Building—Front and Broadway downtown.

San Diego’s coalition will be joining others across the country on this–a People’s Day of Climate Action by calling, once again, for the federal government to implement a national mobilization to get America off fossil fuels and on to renewable energy at wartime speed.