Catching up with Street People: The one where commentors get all petty and mean for no reason.

Look commentors I'm all for your crazy, sexy, zinger humor and I quite like it when you pick on those guys who think they are cool or those girls who think they are cooler. Heck, I don't even mind a good "what the hell are we reading this stuff for?" question or a "I can't believe I just read that whole thing" or even a good "man that person is cute but that's about it."

I'm just as Mean Girl as the next person, from behind my computer screen whilst wearing my pajama pants and hoodie sweatshirt I like to go on and on about who is hot or not, I like to wonder why Britney speaks with an english accent, l like to catch up on Scientology, but I don't like to be, well, rude about it.

Especially, if say, the person is just a person, trying their best, answering what are obviously important, die hard questions to the best of their knowledge, and pretty cute to boot.

And yes, I can forgive her Nickelback, even though I think they are single handily destroying my faith in man kind.

So shame, shame commentors... shame...

In this episode of Street People we meet Jori Jackman who owns a cute little store with cute little things in it (paper things) and who likes Nickelback. Yes, Nickelback. But whatever, I like Justin Timberlake and I'm not afraid to say it.... so go her for owning her Nickelback.

Commentors... FOR SHAME.

This Week in Street People: Welcome Back Commenters

Linebacker for the Chargers: Matt Willhelm

He's cute and seems like a pretty nice guy, plus he plays football (and commenters LOVE him)

He's like every guy you had a crush on in high school, only he has bazillions of dollars and a teeny tiny dog.

And check out that backyard pool!

We'll forgive him for including "My Wedding Song" on his mix CD, but obviously forgetting exactly what it was. "You know, that song, we danced to, it was slow, whatever I totally remember it." *Cue bad Adam Sandler movie reference: quickly pulls out remote control to rewind time only to discover in the end that he should have just lived his life instead of trying to take the easy way out.*

This Week in Street People: Commenters Must be Home for the Holidays

Here at My San Diego we don't like to make fun and/or pass judgment on the fine, upstanding San Diego residents who are profiled as "Street People" (we usually depend on the comments to do that for us) but this weeks Street Person, despite his affable half smile/frown that says "hey, I don't really want this whole big deal made out of my super professional job either", John Resnick, was ripe for judgment and yet only received a paltry two comments (so far).

Comment makers are either striking in solidarity, or on vacation. Resnick (the "Vibe Manager" at The Hard Rock Hotel in Downtown San Diego whose job is to "make sure the Hard Rock rocks") didn't get "Blocked" (As we will hence forth call a complete siege of people with opinions about if this person warrants any comments at all, as was done for the great entry on John Block, writer, screenwriter, hot or not? contestant).

I'm not jealous. I'm not. I am, a little. It's not like I'd turn down the opportunity to "let rock and roll destroy me." Nor would I turn down to opportunity to warrant an actual blog entry by one Cat Dirt.

A little more about Johnny "the vibe master" Master.

John Resnick describes his perfect San Diego weekend:"Riding my Harley up north on PCH, then back through the mountains, and getting home in time to go see a small concert with good friends. That'd be just about perfect."

John Resnick tells us the 10 songs he'd put on his perfect mix CD: 1. "Romeo and Juliet," Dire Straits2. "Just Like Heaven," The Cure3. "Bittersweet Symphony," The Verve4. "Like a Rolling Stone," Bob Dylan5. "Y Control," Yeah Yeah Yeahs6. "You Only Live Once," The Strokes7. "Lawyers, Guns and Money," Warren Zevon8. "Sweet Jane," The Velvet Underground9. "The Magnificent Seven," The Clash10. "Oh My God," Mark Ronson feat. Lily Allen

The man leads with Dire Straits, I mean that is a man you have to respect. I, personally, would have lead with Bob Dylan because he's totally hot right now. I guess that's why they pay John Resnick the big bucks.

This week in Street People: The comics go comment-less

Since they don't have great legs or square toed shoes or even our hearts this weeks Street People, Martin Raabe-Lopez and Shane Lindley, "look funny, dress funny and act funny (and sip coffee downtown while listening to The Beatles) but they don't get a lot of ire, accolades or trying to be witty comments.

Needless to say, two clowns like these guys (no seriously, they actually are clowns, check it) deserve their recap.

Martin is 20, he likes Mediterranean Cuisine and Kanye West's new album. He uses Wikipedia to "find things out" and hates people who listen to the radio.

Shane is a "ninth generation San Diegan" who loves women.

The perform in a circus act together.

Now that I read it, even I can't think of a comment to leave for them. Maybe we'll just go the old Jon Block route and post a really long comment under the name Chad (allegedly, ALLEGEDLY).

Image via Street.

This week in Street People: Everybody loves Jason Connors

No seriously, check out the comments, everybody loves Jason Connors, everybody, even people that just met the guy love them some Jason Connors. And Lord help us if we don't love us a little Jason Connors as well. He supports his cast mates, he listens to fun music, he watches The Daily Show, he reads, he fights the devil with guitar riffs! From Street:

Name: Jason Connors

Hangs out: "After the show Sunday nights, I hang out at the Park Manor Suites Hotel to see my fellow cast member Ria Carey sing with the amazing Don LeMaster on keyboards."

Favorite bands: "I can listen to anything from Beck, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, The Beatles and The White Stripes. I have almost every album from each of these artists except Zappa (who has made more music than I could ever listen to)."

Clicks: "Hands down, the new 'Daily Show' Web site is the coolest thing around. A complete historical archive of the show since Jon Stewart joined in '99. I'm also a huge fan of Wikipedia. The internal links will keep my wandering mind occupied for hours. Sadly."

Plays: "My roommate just got Guitar Hero III, and I must confess that it's a guilty pleasure to pretend I'm a rock star. Until I lose to the devil, of course."

Watches: "Now that 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' are online, I have no reason to watch television."

"On Friday, I would get off of work early and jam all day with my band until my fingers got sore from playing guitar. Saturday, I would record some music, go to a rehearsal for the next play I'm involved in, and in the evening I would see a play at one of my favorite theaters (like Cygnet Theatre). Then, on Sunday, I would sleep in, and sometime around 2 p.m. I would go to Balboa Park to enjoy the perfect San Diego weather, to people-watch and to walk around the museums until nightfall. On Sunday evening, I'd head down to the Suites Hotel to watch my friends perform some cabaret."

Is Jason Connors single? Does Jason Connors want to be my best friend. Is Jason Connors letting all of this love he's getting online go to his head?! (He probably is, he probably thinks he's so cool and now doesn't even care about us little people any more, man we hate Jason Connors!).

And then if you check the comments you see this:

Thanks for posting comments everybody, and showing your support. I appreciate it a lot and I hope you all can come see my show at the 6th @ Penn Theatre. Here's the website: www.voxnovatheatrecompany.com. Thanks again!
Posted by: Jason Connors

Oh, we love Jason Connors again.

This week in Street People: DJ A Rod inspires his friends to get online and leave comments about how cool he is

He inspires the Street writers to debate the finer merits of squared toed shoes.

He inspires me to jump on the "hey I like Bon Jovi as much as the next guy" band wagon.

The man, inspires (and DJ's apparently).

Everyone's (once again) talking about Street People

No, not the kind that live on the street and probably have some kind of plight to be told and are the nameless, faceless casualties of the growing upper class.

No, we're talking about Street People, those cool, hip, young, don't you wish you were as good looking and fancy free as they are, Street People.

Each week Street tells us who we should be talking about, talks about them, and then we proceed to talk about them (usually in ways that we would reserve for talking about the girl who totally wears low cut shirts at work, the ho, whatever, she can just kiss my...).

This week: is Gillian Flynn your all around editor, snappy dresser, look at me looking cute in my cute outfit with my cute shoes in my cute poses around cute San Diego, cutie. She's 34 (and admits it!) but looks 24 (and has great highlights) and she edits a bunch of magazines and does a bunch of other stuff, and she's a North County girl (one of those) who doesn't download music cause she's too busy, but her entertainment editor does (cause he's not) and look how cute she is, she's just too busy being cute that's it, and she likes social commentary (CUTE!) and she just hates those geeky guys in spandex who ride bikes (spandex are NOT cute) and old movies and from her play list it looks like she's about 64 and should be wearing pearls (oh that would look so cute on her) and...

Commenter Anonymous is peeved (whatever, that's so note cute): Maybe next time Ms Flynn will remember that some of her readers "could" be that guy on the bike in the spandex and try not to offend...

And commenter Spandex Rules is looking for a fight: Hey, Anonymous, did your spandex cut off circulation to your sense of humor? Lighten up, spandex geek!

And everybody else loves her, blah, blah, blah.

Ooo, ooo, except for Connor (boo, Connor, boo on you) Unapologetic is right. Ms. Flynn's scratchy voice and her unfiltered thoughts have offended more than enough, and though this little profile does make her more likable, it still falls short of saving her.

Whatever, we still think she's cute (so does she).

Photo: via Street.

Sometimes the comments make the story

Name: Jon Block (image from Street)

Who: This guy that Street decided to do a nice fluffy piece about. He's a "Street" person, you know, a local artist, a local person with some local talent who lives locally and likes it. Block calls himself a writer. Oh, let me have Jon explain it to you, ""I came up as a screenwriter but have published children's stories, magazine articles and essays. Mostly, I write personal stories not unlike David Sedaris, which probably means I'm too open and too self-involved. But my real guiding passion is to empower the San Diego film industry."

Why it matters: It doesn't really. He likes Muse and Tegan & Sara and doesn't listen to American Idol Finalists (whatevs! Jordin doesn't need you any way! She's got a hit single that somehow compares love to being all on her heart like a TATTOO!). He also likes to visit his own website (http://www.jonblockparty.com/ in case you were wondering) and another website that he's also affiliated with (www.myspace.com/mindfillent). That particular website is going to change the world somehow, or wait "so many lives."

Why we love him: Because he's Jon Block and apparently that's enough (check the comments, it's enough).

Hate him or love him Jon Block is the Street person this week, so deal.

Some people can't deal.


Like David Peters: Can you really not find anyone who has actually accomplished anything in San Diego or are you just interested in publishing the mumblings of a young good looking person who has a way too high opinion of himself. If one more of these people mentions that they write in the coffee house Lestat I will cancel my subscription.

And Chad. Well, Chad can deal with Jon Block but not with David Peters.
David,
What is truly ironic about your post is that you first begin by elevating yourself above those who choose to comment on pieces like this... then you comment. Your next move is to point out that stuff like this is fluff. Indeed it is, it's fluff, it's filler, and ultimately it is pointless. Or is it? Perhaps you are missing the whole point, and then missing why you come out as a huge jerk in the process.

And Jackie can deal with Jon Block and David Peters but not with Chad.
Chad, chill... you come off even worse as the original poster... I've never seen anyone take a single point and convolute it in such a way that they make themselves look as dumb as you... nice job.

But Wade Varney, he just likes him some Jon (screw those other guys making comment after comment).
Jon Block is an interesting charismatic guy who's life is in the making. He has a college education and has written magazine articles, at least 12 screenplays, acted in some short films and at 27 years old that is an accomplishment.

Soooo, to wrap up. David Peters hates him some Jon Block. Chad hates him some David Peters. Jackie hates her some Chad and Wade Varney just loves him some Jon Block.

Full circle my friends, full circle.