That Brian Wilson Thing
Hurt and the Heartbeat | Boscoes The band was in the studio recording its second album and was eager to talk about it. It took another year and a half and a line-up shuffle before it was released.
Mystery solved: Where was the wreck of Dana Point’s wind-bashed bait boat?
Photo courtesy of Boonchob Vijarnsorn. latimes.com — Nearly two years after Dana Point's bait hauler went down in wind-whipped waters off the coast of San Clemente, Chad Steffen was taking a group of anglers out on the San Mateo, one of several boats in Dana Wharf's Sportfishing fleet. It was June 2007. "During the summer, we'll head down the coast for [...]
Turtles
Elena Hawke ‘s assistant was translating her presentation into Mandarin, the reason for the chopping edits. Hawke had to balance the sensitivity of the newborn turtle release with the predominately wealthy Asian guests and their bratty kids (we were the only Americans on the island) who were looking for some educational entertainment.
The show used to be on the stage
Randall Roberts’ commentary on how the “deep listening” concert experience has been severely eroded because of technology, short attention spans and narcissistic behavior is sad but absolutely true [“Please Hold Those Tweets and Vids,” Jan. 12]. Gone are the days when the whole idea of going to a show was to get a sense of how the artist was going to re-create the [...]
Psychological Impact of Being Around Charles Manson
There are several risks inherent in participatory journalism, especially when you get touchy-feely with a nut job like Manson. If I was Hedegaard, I'd proceed directly to counseling, or call a priest or an exorcist - the devil has no doubt penetrated your soul, brother. Rolling Stone Magazine | Correspondence
Poseidon’s Day of Reckoning
This was one component of a final exam/project for a digital journalism class I took at University of California-Irvine Extension. The audio’s a bit garbled in places but the content’s balanced and you get a sense of the arguments pro and con. The protracted debate drags on four years later.
Drudging Through the Muck, It Keeps Getting Better
danapointtimes.com — It’s a dark and dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. I’m talking about the 30 plus scuba divers who participated in Saturday’s Dana Point Harbor Cleanup. And with prizes on the line, those divers pulled out a ton of stuff, including marine parts, building and plumbing materials, electronics, fishing gear, crates, bottles, laptops—even Old Glory. Poor girl, she wasn’t [...]
San Clemente’s Wheeler North Reef
cadivingnews.com — Artificial reefs are nothing new to Southern California, but the Wheeler North Reef in San Clemente raises the bar in terms of its size and scope. Named after Wheeler J. North, a noted marine biologist who studied California’s coastal kelp forests, its creation stems from a 1989 Marine Review Committee report that found the cloudy water discharged by the San Onofre [...]
A Sunken Ship Becomes a Rising Star for Anglers, Divers
sanclementetimes.com — In August of 2010, I signed up as a volunteer diver for the annual Dana Point Harbor cleanup. While I was picking up my gear, one of the guys at the dive shop asked me if I was interested in diving a wreck just a few miles outside of the harbor. I was curious. There’s a wreck outside the harbor? The [...]
Sinking the Kawishiwi
scubadiving.com — While the passage of two California laws have helped clear a path to bring the USS Kawishiwi – a decommissioned 655‐ foot Neosho-class fleet oiler ‐ closer to becoming an artificial reef outside the Dana Point Harbor in Southern California, a spokesperson for the project said it could take a minimum of two years before the vessel is sunk. Former Dana Point mayor [...]