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Craiglist's "casual encounters" section is a virtual candy store of weird fetishes, transsexual prostitution, and gay dudes who refuse to accept their gayness and instead rely on "mutual touching, I'm not gay" experiences. And yet, even I was surprised when I came across this ad for an orgy (I'm sorry, "friendly adult party") at the …
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How San Diegans Spot a Tourist
A recent LIFE slideshow listed the ways that New Yorkers are able to spot a tourist -- from how slow they walk to how they gawk at celebrities. As a person who is planning on making a trip to the other coast this year, I felt a little miffed (codeword for annoyed as s***), because …
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Reflections on Comic-Con 2010
I guess I should probably restate that subject line as "Reflections on Comic-Con 2010 from Someone Who Went for the Last Five Minutes of One Day," but that's just not as catchy, is it? I'll be honest, my experience of this year's SDCC International was... less than stellar. I spent most of the weekend slinging …
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5 Things You'll See at Comic Con 2010
As a server who has worked in the Gaslamp district for three summers now, I feel as though I have a bit of insight that could potentially help those Downtown industry-newbies who are about to experience the wrath of the 150,000 person convention this year. If you're reading this, and you have not yet mentally …
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Whale Breaches Onto Yacht
There are few things in the world more pleasant than riding on a yacht. The fresh air, the blue water, the wind in your face... you could spend a beautiful sunny day doing nothing but lounging about, drinking some fruity blended drink and sleeping away. Unless you were riding on this yacht in Cape Town, …
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San Diego's Pride Festival Was Insane, As Usual
Have you ever wanted to consume a 25 oz. margarita in the blazing heat of July? Or see a really pasty white guy in nothing but ass-less chaps, making out with another dude in nothing but ass-less chaps? Or stand too close to three super obese women in body paint? I'm sure you do, so …
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iDosing... A Drug Epidemic?
I always assumed that someday in the future, people would look at our iPod touches and laugh, thinking, HA! What primitive music wear! To think, they didn't have microchips embedded in their occipital lobes through which all the music in the world could be streamed at any moment of the day. Instead, it turns out …
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5 Required Materials for the 4th Of July
If my Googling is correct (I don't do math), Sunday marks the 234th Independence Day of our nation. We broke free from the shackles of unfair taxation and fancy-pants accents and said, NO THANK YOU to the letter U getting all up in certain words. That was 1776, a time of wooden teeth and pooping …
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BeautifulPeople.com Creates Sperm Bank
It's been a while since our last post regarding the openly douchey dating site BeautifulPeople.com. If you recall, they were slammed by critics everywhere (including yours truly) for expelling some 5,000 members for putting on weight after the holidays. Which is SUPER douchey. Apparently, Founder Robert Hintze said, “Letting fatties roam the site is a …
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New Weight Loss Trend is Awful
Back in my day, we used to use a combination of diet and exercise to lose weight. You whippersnappers will never know the misery of cutting down your calorie intake, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, and working out for an hour... YES, AN HOUR! three to four times a week to improve health and …
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