Penasquitos Canyon Preserve is another local park in San Diego that allows you to momentarily step out of the urban ...   more »

For the last several weekends, I've been going on short, local hikes with some friends. I need the exercise, and ...   more »

We actually used to collect Jesse's. I'm not sure how it started. I guess one wasn't enough. We always had ...   more »

Why is life so full of waiting? All our lives we wait. Waiting for the right time, the right person, ...   more »

If you can still find this blog, then you already know the address changed. That's more than I was informed ...   more »

If you were looking for my blog yesterday, like me, you probably couldn't find it.   more »

First lines from the first post of each month, obviously.   more »

There have been a few events in my life where I almost came out looking cool. I've called them "Mark is Almost Cool Stories".   more »

Because I often enjoy substituting real thought for sheer randomness   more »

Wall Street fat cats and big-wigs spent years irresponsibly handling their duties and responsibilities to their companies and to the ...   more »

I was having a good time looking through the list of referring websites that have directed traffic to this blog in the past few months. I decided I would list some of the more common and interesting ones, including Google and Yahoo search results.   more »

Hollywood could learn so much from the world's independent film makers. I'm sure we all already knew that, but "Once" is another shining example.   more »

In May of 1992, Bob Spelled Backwards had what may have been the most productive week any fake band ever ...   more »

Two weeks ago, SCOOPS got the opportunity to participate in Ghost Fest at the Queen Mary. This sounded like too ...   more »

First, a review. Here were last year's goals, which were each bi-leveled, followed by an assessment of how I ...   more »

In this meme, you request an interview in the comments, the blogger posts 5 questions for you, and you make ...   more »

2008 was a year spent using the best camera I've owned yet. Here are a selection of photos taken throughout ...   more »

All you old school friends of mine, leave me a comment or an email and I'll send YOU a track ...   more »

Maybe some day I'll live in the place I want to spend Christmas, and I won't have to spend so ...   more »

Story of a Song: "4:36pm"

An early mix of the new Bob Spelled Backwards single, "4:36pm", is posted on the ...   more »

There have been a few events in my life where I almost came out looking really cool.    more »

Hope and Hate, on one historic date.   more »

I will never, EVER support any measure that will change the constitution in order to deny basic civil rights...   more »

One of the things that has been occupying my mind and time for the past 6 months or so is ...   more »

I've jammed the past couple of Wednesday nights with the former bass player from earthShine, Denver, and the drummer he's ...   more »

As you all are probably aware, Bush is planning on rewarding wall street corporations and their executives for destroying the ...   more »

Arnold has a brilliant plan to fix the California economy. At least I thought it was on first glance. The ...   more »

(Clearly, I should do more things.)
Bold the things you've done. Add one.

01. Bought everyone in the pub a ...   more »

Southern California was shaken yesterday, by a magnitude 5.4 earthquake. This was the most quake I've ever felt, because of ...   more »

In my post last week I went off on my recent experience getting my car repaired after being hit. I ...   more »