It took me almost seven years to scatter my mom’s ashes, and I don’t know why. by Reviewer Rob Me, last week, after finally getting around to scattering my mom’s ashes from my surfboard at the same beach as my father’s were in 1980, as she requested. My dad wanted me to give him a “burial at sea” from my […]
Scattering My Mother’s Ashes Took A While
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returning the stones: Palos Verdes Stone
What Might Have Been Doesn’t Matter by Reviewer Rob This is a chunk of limestone I picked up from the side of the road in a development in Palos Verdes above Rocky Point and Lunada Bay areas sometime around eight or ten years ago. In 1963 my dad was a bartender in his mid thirties working at the Plush Horse […]
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rocks: sandstone fossil from Blacks Beach
Giving The Rock Back To The Place It Came From by Reviewer Rob I’ve collected rocks in the past but lately have been in the mood to return some of them to the places I got them from. (Below’s post material is from yesterday.) I took this strange rock back to the area I found it today. It’s a sandstone […]
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Good Chakra
I need a new angle by Reviewer Rob Maybe I should try yoga. I’ve been mulling around this option for a while since I’ve been working out at the gym with weights every day, consistently, for the past 17 months, I’ve notice an expected improvement in muscle tone, strength and flexibility, but I have not reached that level of ethereal […]
4 Sale: 10-5 Longboard, $300
4 Sale: Longboard, 10-5, $300 This 10-5 longboard is a tri -with one large center fin and two open boxes for the side fins. This is PERFECT for a longboard aficionado to paddle out with on crowded days or for a beginner to learn to stand up on in very small Summer surf. It paddles fast due to its length […]
4 Sale: Indian Metate, $350
For Sale: Metate, $350. Email Rob@ReviewerMag.org. This is a San Diego Indian metate used by local Indians to grind their acorns and pine nuts into meal and it was found in the 1960’s where it had been left behind by the indigenous inhabitants in Sorrento Valley approximately where the 805 and I5 freeways now merge by a train company employee […]
A Better Mousetrap
Spiderbait Spiderbait LP Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp Oh musical gods, why hast ye forsaken me? Once, long ago, in a place where only vinyl and 8-track tapes existed, a band’s first album was titled using the band’s name, i.e., eponymously. That’s how we got Bread, Boston, [The] Chicago [Transit Authority], [Fresh] Cream, Supertramp, Buckingham Nicks . . . […]
Run Brothers Run
Wheeland Brothers Muchos Mahalos LP Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp The musical landscape is littered with acts that are ubiquitous, and sadly, completely interchangeable. Many also claim some distant but unexplained California nativeness. At the risk of generating skeins of hateful email from the feel-good music crowd, I include John Mayer and several others in the aforementioned categories. Then […]