by The Editors on July 6, 2008
The PBS show Everyday Edisons features passionate, sometimes comically misguided inventors as they attempt to bring their new products to market.
Carlsbadistan resident Michael Diep (who escpaed from from Viet Nam by boat with his family in 1980) is one of the inventors the show will follow in its second season, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. His product: Emery Cat scratching post.
Michael Diep, who makes his living as a salesman and an entrepreneur, welcomed the chance to work with the program after seeing what happened with the products from the first season. They’re being sold in stories, through mail order or on the Internet. . . .The scratching post came to him after he helped his brother take a cat to the vet for a nail trim. The cat didn’t want to go, which meant a chase, a wrestling match, scratches, flying fur.
You can catch the first episode of Everyday Edisons today at noon on KPBS. The show will continue for the next 13 weeks.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 5, 2008
One of the great things about having a private street is that you can close it whenever you want. That’s exactly what the residents of Carlsbadistan’s Nautical Drive did on Independence Day.
They didn’t close it for a parade. They closed it so they could use they could throw a small block party: get a jumper for the kids, pull the patio furniture out into the street, and have dinner with their friends and neighbors.
Sitting out in the middle of the street with a cool drink in our hand, surrounded by good company made us realize just how annoying traffic is on our streets, and how nice it is to close them down every once in a while just because.
It was a happy 4th of July, indeed. Click the jump for a couple more photos.
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by The Editors on July 4, 2008
After most of the day under a thick marine layer, the sun finally appeared over Carlsbadistan at 3:20 PM along with perfect blue skies. And absolutely no one was bummed. Even those who spent the morning in the fog only to have to leave just when the sun came out.
by The Editors on July 4, 2008
It was an amazingly beautiful and sunny morning today in Carlsbadistan, but just as the Tamarack parking lot began to fill at around 10:40 AM, the “wall of fog” crept in off the ocean and socked us in to our traditional July 4th weather.
The beach is now loaded with people who are hoping the sun will win the war by noon. Maybe lighting off more fireworks will help. . . just kidding.
by The Editors on July 4, 2008
Happy 232nd Birthday America!
by The Editors on July 4, 2008
Aside from handful of extremely well prepared amateur pyrotechnicians in Carlsbadistan, we have no official city fireworks display. But that shouldn’t stop anyone from heading to the beach tonight to catch everyone else’s fireworks shows.
Here is a list of the star spangled fireworks displays we can see from the beach in Carlsbadistan (if the marine layer stays offshore).
- Carlsbadistan: Fireworks show whenever the Carlsbad Police Department is not looking.
- Legoland: Fireworks show at 8:30 pm
- Oceanside Pier: Fireworks show at 9 pm
- Camp Pendleton: Fireworks show at 9 pm
- Del Mar Fairgrounds: Fireworks show at 9 pm
- La Jolla Cove: Fireworks show at 9 pm
[Link: SignOnSanDiego]
by The Editors on July 4, 2008
The football field at Carlsbad High School was condemned yesterday after soil tests showed elevated levels of arsenic six inches below the field, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The routine testing was part of the school’s planned expansion, which was to include the demolition of the football field and track at the end of this year’s football season. With the results of last week’s tests, however, orange fencing has been assembled around the field and the Lancers will be playing on a new surface earlier than they imagined.
Maybe that’s why other teams have such a hard time winning at Swede Krcmar Field.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
Stephanie McFarland, 38, of Carlsbad, may have fallen “asleep at the wheel or lost control” of the family’s 200 Ford Expedition Thursday morning while traveling to a wedding, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
The family of five was driving eastbound on Interstate 70, near Sigurd and exit 48 in Sevier County, at 6:45 a.m. Roden said the family was traveling in the fast lane when the vehicle veered off the road into the median and hit a reflector pole.
Stephanie and her husband Tod McFarland, 40, were both killed in the accident. Their “5-year-old son was taken to Sevier Valley Hospital in critical condition and later transferred to a Salt Lake-area hospital.” The other two children (a 2-year-old boy, and five-year-old girl) “escaped with non-life-threatening injuries.”
[Link: Salt Lake City Tribune]
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
The Fourth of July is a big, big day in Carlsbadistan and what better way to shut it down than by driving out to the Eastern Front for some red hot and saucy jazz music as Ruby and The Red Hots rock Stagecoach Park at stop number three of the City of Carlsbad’s TGIF Jazz in the Park. 6 – 8 pm.
A crowd favorite for years, Ruby Presnell, “The First Class Sultry Lady of Blues,” has shared the stage with all the greats including Etta James, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, as well as the San Diego Symphony. And now she’s going to share her music with Carlsbadistan, again.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
The new issue of Carlsbad Magazine features a list of the Top 10 things to do in Carlsbad. What’s number one? The editors really reached on this one: The Beach. Apparently, there are “at least 10 different things to do at the beach.”
The only actually interesting thing on the list is the Museum of Making Music, and it was number seven. Oh, and number 10? Shopping. Right.
For the real goods check out the story on the Locals’ Top 25. That list is for people who enjoy Carlsbadistan.
A couple activities, however, were apparently left off both lists. Here are a few of them:
- Get all mellow and post artistic observations to a blog.
- Ride a cruiser home drunk from Dinis
- Talk loudly about how rad things used to be on the patio at Pizza Port.
- Set up lawnchairs and umbrellas with all your salty buddies and oogle young mom’s as they push strollers past OffShore.
- Park your monsterous motorcoach on top of the seawall, put all your furniture on the lawn (including your TV, electric grill, and inflatable pool), and pretend you live here.
- Set off fireworks every night of the year, just when people are getting to sleep.
- Let your dog take huge, runny dumps on the sidewalk and then leave them there for everyone to admire.
- Speed up and down Coast Highway in your 2007 Chevy Malibu and gas it whenever you see people stepping into a crosswalk.
- Get into late-night arguments with your boy/girlfriend outside someone else’s window at 1:30 in the morning.
- Spend the day sitting at Starbucks frightening people with your leering, creepy glances.
- Let all five of your dogs loose to run on the beach.
- Have a romantic Carl’s Jr. dinner on the beach, then leave all your trash on the sand.
- Race up Garfield like you’re in the Indy 500.
- Kayak into the lineup at Tamarack.
- Yell into your cellphone during dinner at Jay’s Gourmet.
- And at least once a month, move your bowels under the Hemlock Stairs.
There’s more, but we really need to go get some coffee.
The PBS show Everyday Edisons features passionate, sometimes comically misguided inventors as they attempt to bring their new products to market.
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