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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Paradise Point: We Gouge You Less
Just in time for Memorial Day, the start of boating season, gas prices for boaters have leaped above $4 a gallon. But not at Paradise Point Marina at Terminous. There, staffers discovered the numbers on the pumps go only as high as $3.99! So they’re stuck dispensing gas at that price throughout the biggest weekend [...]
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The perfect name for Stockton
As I’ve written before, Stockton can’t realize its full potential with the name Stockton. That name’s just weird.
I took a stab once and proposed several new names, but I never found the perfect moniker for this burg
That changed today.
Driving up Hwy. 99, I found myself behind a truck on which appeared the words, “Oak Harbor [...]
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The Clueless Neighbor Syndrome
A curious side effect of the sort of godawful crime Stockton saw yesterday (May 24) is the Clueless Neighbor Syndrome. People with this syndrome, usually neighbors of the culprit, profess utter shock and disbelief when their neighbor commits insanely criminal acts. Many of these folks have been neighbors with the headline-making arrestee for years and [...]
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Exciting new feature: Ask Mike
Readers are always calling with questions. Because customer service is my life, I often undertake to answer, even if this work does not make its way into the column. But now this blog provides a perfect spot to publish answers. So today we institute a new feature, “Ask Mike.”
The first customer appears below.
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Ask Mike: the totem pole
Christina Aasen writes, “I was over on Eighth Street the other day, at the old fire house. … I happened to look in, and on the south wall on the ground was our totem pole, the one that was in Victory Park. It was not covered, it was not encased and it was not in [...]
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Why the chicken crossed the eggheads
If there’s one trait that distinguishes members of the Stockton Astronomical Society besides their love of stars, it’s intelligence. Which makes it all the funnier that the May issue of the club’s newsletter, “Valley Skies,” swallows an urban legend.
The newsletter reprinted the widely circulated “chicken cannon” story. It’s about a test device used by NASA [...]
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Pombo and Abramoff
And Speaking of Richard Pombo, blogger Daily Kos discusses the Congressman’s ties to Jack Abramoff here.
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A margarita with McCloskey
Monday evening I drifed over to the Bob Hope Theatre, inside of which Vice President Dick Cheney was stumping for Congressman Richard Pombo. A protester surprised me by saying that Pombo’s Republican rival, Pete McCloskey, was thereabouts, too.
Sure enough, in an RV down the block, McCloskey and his PR people had set up shop.
“McCloskey is [...]
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The Holy Grail of pastrami
Roger Thomas, longime owner of Bigfellow’s Sandwich Parlor on Wilson Way, has sold his business, which just happens to make the best pastrami sandwich in town. I know. Last year I embarked on a pastrami quest to find pastrami approximating the Holy Grail of pastrami, which is served by the Carnegie Deli across from Carnegie [...]
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