OB Rag

3:30am – January 1, 2011 What in the world is the insomniac doing awake at this time in the morning?…

Editor: This nostalgic-seeming post by former OBceian now living in the Bay Area Michael Steinberg got to us a little…

Check out this tyger on the prowl through the nighttime streets and hillsides of Sao Paulo. His roars awaken the teeming natural world that exists unseen beneath the surface of the city. This animated metamorphosis is filled with the urgency and power of life pushing, flying and just hanging out.

William Blake’s words “And what shoulder, & what art. /Could twist the sinews of thy heart?” are given a voluptuous Brazilian twist.

“When people think of San Diego, they think of sunshine,” said San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. “I’m here to tell you we can make money off that.”

At a press conference held in his City Hall office, Sanders said the city could raise “a substantial amount of cash” through a “sale-leaseback” arrangement focused on the sun.

Under Sanders’ proposal, San Diego would receive a large, lump-sum payment for its sunshine rights. A year later, the city would begin paying a daily sunshine royalty — but only on days when the sun comes out.

Here’s our “Best Of…” posts from 2010, month by month. Over this past year, we’ve published 953 articles on this here website. We’ve tried to include some of the best of each of our writers’ and we’ve done it on a month to month basis for the entire year. The selections below were based on subject matter, comments, and popularity, or just because they were “so OB!” We’re certain we missed some of the good posts – but there were so many!

I hadn’t written anything for a while and decided, in a spirit of fun, to check into “www.creativewritingprompts.com” and craft…

By Jim Grant As I drove down Sunset Cliffs yesterday afternoon in the light rain with a squall line approaching…

by Andy Cohen and Frank Gormlie Last week you probably remember was one of the wettest weeks in recent San…

By Lauren Kelley /AlterNet / December 28, 2010 The 2007 Supreme Court decision that upheld a federal ban on late-term…

Conservative leader Rev. Bausch to hand over keys of OB parish to Diocese.

By Christopher Cadelago / signonsandiego.com/ December 28, 2010

The Rev. Canon Lawrence Bausch expects to surrender the keys to his Ocean Beach church to the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego on Thursday, closing a chapter in an international conflict intensified by the election of an openly gay bishop.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a number of Southern California beaches were hit with raw sewage due to…

Movie Review: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges by Owen Gleiberman / Entertainment Weekly / December 27, 2010 It doesn’t take…