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Jellyfish around San Diego Embarcadero and Broadway Pier

             Delores Fisher Blogger on an early Morning stroll Jellyfish are visiting the San Diego CA. Broadway Pier and Embarcadero again. Jellyfish appeared to swarm in this same area in 2012. Although I posted about the Black Nettle Jellyfish in July 2012, this was the first time since that year that I have seen any type of jellyfish in such numbers at the pier. http://carpenoctum2.blogspot.com/2012/08/black-sea-nettle-jellyfish-at.html   However, multiple sightings of similar and other jellyfish have increased since 2012. Several have been posted on youtube. 2015 has been an odd weather year for San Diego with heat and odd rainfall days (despite our drought). It is possible that temperature shifts are part of the reason why jellyfish are in our bays and near our beaches.  Our October weather has been unseasonably hot this early fall, similar to temperatures during earlier 2015 seasonal sightings....

Kendrick Dial and Lyrical Groove at San Diego House of Blues: Concert Review

                     Delores Fisher Graduate School Years During my initial grad student years, when Alma of Hot Monkey Love Cafe decided to take a chance on me to write interviews and reviews for her website, I got around to concerts quite a lot.  As a Hot Monkey Love Cafe Blues Night and poetry open mic host, I performed and interacted with musicians, composers, poets, prose reader/writers, painters, videographers on stage several nights a week--pure ecstasy! Many artists became more than acquaintances; we kept in touch off stage as well. Like most music grad students, long term immersion in various music scenes was the norm, on the daily. Eventually, in San Diego and parts of LA, word spread that I was  a reviewer as well as a church musician and performance poet (a member of 4nth, a woman's poetry collective). Press kits, and invitations to CD parties, or special gigs arrived weekly via snail mail or on site p...

Preparing A Lecture on African Americans with Disabilities in the 21st Century: A Few Random Thoughts

                            Delores Fisher How does one choose and cultivate identity when emerging from complex realities that defy stereotypical definitions of self hood? Where does one find how to “be” in today’s technological electronic miasma?  What happens to the “me” of my life when I realize a nebulous sense of not belonging, an intersection of multiple realities [i] with a pinch of additional apparent quirkiness attached to my marginalized physical presence which does not graph onto the surface of twenty first century being that embodies the beautiful “it"?  Sadly, our most best friend at dawn’s light and day’s night--the Internet-- has become a hotbed pillow talk companion for oppressive/aggressive Antonin Artaud theater of cruelty . [ii] It’s common place now. We are each other’s objects. Perhaps . . . ...

A Delores Fisher Outside View: San Diego Comic Con 2015

San Diego Comic Con 2015 was quite an event this year with more interactive family oriented events outside the Convention Center for those who did not(it sold out REALLY fast for 2015) or could not purchase a ticket. As you all know, I like to cover the outside events and have a blast with cosplayers who dress up in costume for what ever reason. I watched as several young bloggers mingled with the crowds, asking questions and writing down responses. I had to smile. San Diego Comic Con is an event during which bloggers can cover a plethora of topics  from diverse perspectives.(See my series of posts from the Sonictapestry Blog : https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/delores-fishers-comic-con-chronicles-2015-1/    https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/delores-fishers-comic-con-chronicles-2/ https://sonictapestry.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/delores-fishers-comic-con-chronicles-3/  This year was filled with inter-active outside events as ...