Monthly Archives: November 2006

Kicking Pombo When He’s Down II

By Site Admin | Published: November 29, 2006 | Comments closed
A Bay Area paper recently reported that lame duck Congressman Richard Pombo is “furious at his opponents for the very personal campaign they waged against him, and he is still stunned because they pulled it off.” We share the congressman’s indignation. There’s nothing worse than a low-down campaigner who gets personal. The admirably high-minded [...]
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First black Met tenor had Stockton ties

By Site Admin | Published: November 29, 2006 | Comments closed
Gordon Rose writes: “In today’s national news is a story of the passing of Robert McFerrin, Sr. You may not know this, but he has some ties with Stockton. “During WW II, he was stationed in Stockton. He had already been introduced to classical music, but was not confident of his talents. He met my grandmother, [...]
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Another crazy Stockton writer

By Site Admin | Published: November 28, 2006 | Comments closed
Stockton home boy Jerry J. Davis is another crazy writer who participated in National Novel Writing Month. Only Davis did it from his home outside Dallas, Tex., where he now lives. “I grew up in Stockton since the 70’s, living out at the northern end of El Dorado, right across the street from that farm that [...]
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Art and the Valley flyway

By Site Admin | Published: November 20, 2006 | Comments closed
The poet David Humphreys writes about some frequent flyers seen overhead this time of year: November Geese by David Humphreys About three weeks ago you heard them for the first time calling in the clouds above you and then again ever since occasionally in different places like the front door this morning [...]
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"This is what I should be doing."

By Site Admin | Published: November 20, 2006 | Comments closed
Says Stockton boy Matt Castle in an interview about his Broadway debut.
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New Ps3 game: “Market Crash”

By Site Admin | Published: November 20, 2006 | Comments closed
The scalper’s market for Sony Playstation 3—(numerous local yokels camped outside the Best Buy for three nights to buy and resell the gizmos) is going south like a goose. Ps3s are going for as little as $900 on e-Bay. Meaning the financial wizards who lived outside for days in wet weather may make $300 profit [...]
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Vivid, visceral, Vietnamese

By Site Admin | Published: November 18, 2006 | Comments closed
Here’s a clip from Stockton film student Hung P. Nguyen’s award-winning short documentary, “Going Home.”
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Debating a county worker

By Site Admin | Published: November 16, 2006 | Comments closed
Kelly Wilson writes: “I am a county employee. I am responding to your commentary in the Stockton Record on the San Joaquin County employee strike last week. You missed the point last Friday (11/10/06) regarding the county worker strike. There are so many underlying issues. I will only point out a few. 1. The county [...]
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Abomination found on minister’s porch

By Site Admin | Published: November 15, 2006 | Comments closed
Someone — possibly a minion of Satan — on Tuesday left a copy of “The Joy of Gay Sex” on the front porch of the home of outspoken anti-homosexual minister Rev. Bob Hailey. Hailey recently hit the circuit of local public forums to deliver his speech, “The Destruction of America,” which, according to him, is pretty [...]
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Wise words on prostitution

By Site Admin | Published: November 15, 2006 | Comments closed
“There’s no point trying to figure out motive. The groin wants what it wants. And there’s even less point trying to smother biological imperatives. It’s bred in the bone, if steeped in hypocrisy. Righteous preachers who bible-thump about sin get caught with their pants down. Cops who arrest johns coerce hookers into giving them freebies. [...]
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