Sorry, kids, As usual this one is 21 and over.
[Link: Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub]
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Amazing how this stuff can sneak up on us. Tonight (June 20, 2008) from 6 to 8 PM, on ball field number 1 of Stagecoach Park “contemporary blues” singer Debbie Davies launches the new summer season of Carlsbad’s Jazz in The Park.
Davies cut her teeth playing in blues and rock ‘n roll bands in the San Francisco Bay area before returning to Los Angeles in 1984, where she landed the lead guitar spot in Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs, an all-female band led by wife of British blues pioneer, John Mayall. . . . Since 1993, Debbie has produced nine solo recordings and two collaborative CD’s, one with guitarists Tab Benoit and Kenny Neal, and another with guitarists Anson Funderburgh and Otis Grand. . . . in 1997 [Davies] won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist. She is nominated yet again in this category for 2008.
Pack up the picnic and roll out to Stagecoach for an evening of fine blues guitar in a big park.
[Link: Jazz in The Park]
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In what has to be one of the biggest culture clashes in sport NASCAR hits the wine country this weekend when the Sprint Cup hits the Infineon Raceway.
In addition to the traditional left hand turns Infineon also be right hand turns and changes in elevation. All of this is good from Carlsbadistan’s own NASCAR driver Boris Said if he can qualify in today’s qualification runs.
Sonoma also gives fans of Boris Said, the so-called “Said Heads,” another chance to cheer the Carlsbad driver and road-course specialist with the mop of curly hair. . . .Said has four top-10 finishes in eight starts at Sonoma. But he doesn’t have enough points this season to automatically start in Sunday’s 43-car field, so he’ll have to qualify his No. 60 Ford today.
If Boris makes it in the race we might even watch it on TNT at 12:30 PM on Sunday.
[Link: LA Times]
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How ironic: our oil-business president “urged Congress” on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course.
The Bush presidency has used “global terrorism” to expand the US government’s powers (at home and abroad) like no administration ever before, so it should come as no surprise that he’d use “rising oil prices” to relax environmental restrictions on his family’s business, so his good ol’ bonesmen can drill for a reported “1 billion barrels” right off the coast of Carlsbadistan.
Two North County congressional representatives said they supported offshore drilling, while mayors of two coastal cities, the California Coastal Commission and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed it as a risky, short-sighted solution to the current energy crisis that ignores more innovative alternatives.
No one would be shocked to know that our “North County” congressional representatives are lacking rational thougth processes, but this is crazy. Oddly, Mayor Bud Lewis is against this. And for that we thank him.
I doubt that even if we had an abundance of oil that it would reduce gas prices,” he said. “I really have misgivings about the feds.”
Don’t we all. For more details of this horror show, click some of the links below.
[Link: North County Times, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, New York Times]
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According to 10news.com 10 more dead birds found around San Diego County, including Carlsbad, have tested positive for the West Nile Virus.
We are finding more evidence of the virus in urban areas rather than rural and mountain areas,” said Gary Erbeck, director of the DEH. “West Nile virus is a preventable disease,” he said. “You should protect yourself by using insect repellent, as well as inspect your backyard each weak for mosquito breeding areas.”
If you find dead birds in your neighborhood you can report them by visiting the county’s www.SDFightTheBite.com website.
[Link: 10news.com]
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No, the Encina Power Station is not throwing a birthday party for big people. They are simply using huge 10 green balloons to show the size of the proposed powerplant that would be the next phase of their continued industrialization of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new plant would replace three of Encina’s five steam-driven turbines, so the old plant and its stack would remain standing for the foreseeable future. . . . NRG raised a group of green balloons this week to show the location and height of the new plant and its 140-foot-high smokestacks.
. . . The gas-powered plant would consist of a two-part electrical generating system. Gas would be burned to drive a turbine that produces electricity; then heat from that process would drive a steam turbine to produce more power.
Apparently, the new plant could need up to “500,000 gallons of water a day to generate electricity from its steam turbines” and to get this water NRG would like to put in it’s own “desalination plant.” They say they can’t use water from the proposed Poseidon desal because that project has yet to get the proper permits.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune. Photo: Regis Weber]
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When baseball player Dan Giese, 31, retired after six years playing minor league baseball, he moved to Carlsbad and began selling used cars, according to a story on AFP. But that wasn’t the end of his baseball career. This Saturday Giese will get his first major league start as he stands in for Taiwanese hurler Chien-Ming Wang when the Yankees take on the Cincinnati Reds.
In Carlsbad you never know who you’re dealing with.
[Link: AFP]
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Now that Carlsbad is a charter city the city council can make up its own rules nearly on the fly. And it didn’t take them long. On Tuesday night they voted to make it even easier for council to pass legislation, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new quorum rules adopted last night will allow the five-member council to pass legislation with a simple majority of the quorum, with some exceptions. That means that if three members are present, only two votes will be needed for a majority vote. Under the old rules, if only three members were present, all three had to vote in favor of any motion for a measure to pass.
We’ve got to say we like the old rules better on this one. Especially when it comes to voting on changes in Carlsbadistan’s village (where several council members own property).
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Carlsbad High surfer Gabe Garcia lead his team to a victory at San Onofre over San Clemente to win the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship on Sunday, according to a story in the Orange County Register. He also grabbed the title of MVP for the high school surfing event.
But Carlsbad’s Gabe Garcia came through with key rides in the first and second periods and a critical 7.5 in the third on a clean solid right-hander to lift his team to victory. “We put everything we had into it,” Garcia said. “It was a hard game. It was close. And that’s what made it interesting.”
Congrats Gabe, and the rest of the Carlsbad High School surf team for showing the OC what’s up.
[Link: OC Register]
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Carlsbadistan’s Jeff Jarrard, 35, (and his children Kennedy, 6; London, 5; baby Kingston, one month, and Emerson, 16 months) was featured in a San Diego Union-Tribune story on the history, inspiration and other data behind Father’s Day.
Father’s Day lags Mother’s Day in one other way – it became an official holiday 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson’s 1914 order honoring motherhood. . . . The inspiration for Father’s Day came from an original Mr. Mom – William Jackson Smart from Spokane, Wash., who raised six children after his wife died. After hearing a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, Smart’s daughter encouraged churches to add a Father’s Day observance. The idea caught on, but it wasn’t until 1972 that President Richard Nixon signed it into law.
Happy Father’s Day to all the guys who care, love, and support their families.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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