The local paper ran on article on the Christian comics craze. It’s a natural in these muscular Christianity evangelical-imbued born-again Bush presidency Good versus Evil crusading times, but not that new of an idea. It’s just more prominent now. In Japan’s manga culture this kind of stuff would have been out decades ago, but America’s [...]

On the way back from San Diego we stopped at Laguna Beach—site of recent landslides—to enjoy the sun that finally came out. Safa and I had a great time bouncing in the waves. She was quite a trooper taking on large-ish waves without wussing out. After a while she even insisted on no hand-holding and [...]

We went down to San Diego from L.A. to catch the Cubs-Padres game Thursday and spend the night downtown there. Petco Park, the lamely named new downtown home of the lamely named Padres (I take that back—”Padres” is kind of cool; it’s their mascot—the Swinging Friar—that is lame), is functional at best. The downtown location, [...]