Archive for February, 2008
Monday, February 11th, 2008
They caved. They finally caved.
Or did they?
Today, mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmember Madison Nguyen caved in to the protestors and released a memo saying that they want this Little Saigon mess on the ballot in November. So now everyone in San Jose will get to vote on whether a stretch ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
This was my travel tale about Auzerais Avenue, one of San Jose's oldest streets. I got phone calls and letters from the widest cross section of the social spectrum on this one.
Bad Planning, No Donut
A STRIP OF ROAD that adequately represents a microcosm of all things San Jose is the ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
For this one, I used Anton La Vey's Law of the Trapezoid and applied it to the suburban wasteland of Stevens Creek Blvd & Kiely in San Jose. In all the writing classes, they always tell you to "write what you know"...
Hail Trapezoid
DESPITE the maneuverings of developers to slaughter everything ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
A while back, former San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales was indicted for several things and although he was later completely exonerated, the initial city council meeting was straight out of the Gong Show. That's what I wrote.
Too Far Gong
LAST WEEK, media everywhere reported on the "historic" San Jose City Council ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
A column from 11/28/2007 to kick off this category. In my humble opionion, the only good thing written about the Little Saigon debate. I laughed out loud while writing this.
Political Theater Of the Absurd
THIS WEEK, an acid rain shower of absurdities for y'all. The Anti-Man-About-Town (AMAT) infiltrated San Jose City ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Many a raconteur besides myself can claim January 31st as a birthday, and I definitely have some pretty good company, including Norman Mailer, Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Carol Channing.
In 2005 I wrote a column on Mailer which received a few wonderful hate letters from folks who just ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
A recent column to kick off this category.
THE CIRCUS that is the Little Saigon debate isn't going away, and people are still congregating in front of City Hall every Tuesday to protest San Jose City Councilmember Madison Nguyen because she and others voted to rename a part of Story Road ...
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