Archive for September, 2004

Political Debates at the Catfish Club

Thursday, September 30, 2004 20:50

Forwarded from a friend. Yes, we're continuing a streak about politics. Search for Comic-Con, Black's Beach, Over-the-Line for more "fun" content. :-) The Catfish Club is hosting debates between local candidates for office every Friday between now and election day. At the Catfish Club you will have a forum ...

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San Diego Blog: So liberal we drive our writers away

Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:14

MAS, one of our writers, and onetime interview subject writes: Leaving San Diego: No not the city, just the San Diego Blog. I had started moving my San Diego specific blogs to that site a while back, but that's over for now. The blog used to be about ...

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LT SMASH to be on KPBS again

Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:01

Lt Smash notes that he will again appear on KPBS, this time he'll be discussing the impact of political bloggers. Looks like that'll be today at 10-11 -- the These Days site doesn't have any info on this, but I'm looking forward to it. Update 9/30: : ...

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San Diego Bloggers Added in September, 2004

Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:55

Added in September, 20042004-09-29 Shut Up, Stud (Atom)2004-09-27 Brian David Smith 2004-09-27 You just can't make this shit up (Atom)2004-09-22 my luck could change (Atom)(RSS)2004-09-15 jpatrickm (Atom)(...

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Al Franken show opens tour in San Diego

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:59

MSNBC reports that the Al Franken show will open in San Diego -- that's TOMORROW according to the Franken blog: Thursday, 9/30 - San Diego: Mandeville Auditorium Here's the link for Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD.

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Vote: San Diego Election Important Dates

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:00

Whatever your beliefs: VOTE this November. Lots of important issues and candidates on the ballot. sdvote.com has the facts and deadlines: October 4, 2004 - First Day Absentee Ballots are Available October 26, 2004 - Last Day to Apply for an Absentee Ballot By Mail October 30 and 31, 2004 - Weekend Voting The ...

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Proposition A (congestion relief)

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:03

Proposition A renews the existing local half-cent sales tax that has helped finance every major highway, transit improvement and street repair in San Diego County since 1987. San Diegans for Congestion Relief — Yes on Proposition A — is a nonpartisan coalition of the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA), ...

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Donna Frye contemplates late mayoral bid

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:52

The San Diego Union Tribune announced this morning that activist Councilmember Donna Frye is contemplating a run for the Mayor's seat as a write in candidate. Frye, a Democrat, would add a partisan dimension to the technically nonpartisan race with Mayor Dick Murphy and ...

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Martha Barnette’s Website

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:00

Martha Barnette, the new co-host on the KPBS show A Way With Words, has a website -- it's at www.funwords.com. How'd we find out? she left a comment!

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ToorCon Reviews?

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 7:54

We have lots of people coming to the site because we had mentioned Toorcon, which happened over the weekend. Sadly, nobody on staff here went or has anything to say about it. Maybe some of our visitors can share what they thought? BoingBoing mentioned it before it ...

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Lindows letters for Auction on eBay

Monday, September 27, 2004 14:25
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Michael Moore San Marcos Flap

Monday, September 27, 2004 13:57

We totally missed out on posting about the whole Cal State San Marcos / Michael Moore controversy. Here's the SDUT on the result (Moore will speak at the Del Mar racetrack) New venue for Moore.

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San Diego Blog’s (first?) mention in The Reader

Monday, September 27, 2004 11:04

Check it out, San Diego Blog's own Ivan Jurado has got a post of his mentioned in this weeks San Diego Reader in a piece called Red Neighborhood, Blue Neighborhood: With the election approaching, I went looking several weeks ago for bumper stickers that might signal the way ...

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Rock The Walk! And where do you go to find events?

Friday, September 24, 2004 23:53

Got back from Rock the Walk earlier. Leah and I even got to meet Joelle and Mikey -- FINALLY. Somehow I had never been to The Casbah, and it was a great little seedy club. It's right in the ...

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Padres and Personality

Thursday, September 23, 2004 22:27

Today I was reading through the Wall Street Journal when I came across some obscure Padres trivia in a book review. The book, The Cult of Personality, by Annie Murphy Paul sets out to debunk the personality tests that so many of us have had to take at job ...

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SanDiegoBlog — on TV?

Thursday, September 23, 2004 21:00

Joelle of Blogmoxie, Rock The Walk, and her own Tenth-Muse, clues me in... SanDiegoBlog.com may have been on the news this morning, as I have the URL listed as a supporter on our 3' x 10' Rock the Walk Banner. There were several shots of the lead ...

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San Diego is still #17

Thursday, September 23, 2004 19:45

Arbitron still lists San Diego as the 17th largest metro area.

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Lt Smash on the Radio

Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:37

Lt Smash, local blogger, is currently on the radio -- These Days on KPBS.

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Suicide Call on KGB

Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:15

San Diego Blog is coming late to the party on this one. It seems a suicidal man called KGB and through a sequence of events, managed to get himself on the air. Ron Dotinga wrote about it, and he's writing about it again as (his) e-mail box began to ...

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SDUT story of one Marine headed to Iraq

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:00

San Diego has always had a heavy military presence. Navy, Marines. Camp Pendleton is a big factor there. The SDUT has a great photogallery of one of hundreds of families stories: A family separated by war, and there's an accompanying story.

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