Things To Do In San Diego: Sunday, November 30-Wednesday, December 3, 2025: Reggae Brunch Matinee | The Frights | Mdou Moctar | David Benoit | Frank Meyer | Two Runner |

 

I had a couple additions and modifications to this week's listings, so I figured I would repost for ease of access. The photo is my favorite section of lights at Seaworld. Love you. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Rosey's Diary and Newsy Things: City of San Diego Approves & Sets Rates For Balboa Park Parking and lots of other tidbits. | San Diego Zoo To Implement Paid Parking For Non-Members |

I guess I've had this post in the works for several weeks, but never got around to posting because I was busy showing up at City Council meetings to speak against paid parking at the Zoo and Balboa Park, and then running around between the Zoo and Seaworld, working the occasional merch gigs, and spending late nights and early evenings and sometimes early mornings looking for my cat, to no avail. Honestly, besides checking on Pawboost, we'd mostly given up on active searches, but then we saw a post of a sighting that maybe was Tikka, so it reignited me actually walking neighborhoods at night when I was able and motivated. Now we're just past Thanksgiving, and after spending some time with family at San Elijo State Campground and also hanging around the house with Toby, who came home from campus for most of the weekend, and Darren, who got to enjoy the rare extended weekend, I'm at Music Box selling for Flamingosis. It's been nice kinda being a homebody and indulging in the tryptophan coma from the turkey we cooked this year (for the first time with Darren, ever!) and I'm just passing the time until I can pack up this merch and ship it off and get back into my cozy pajamas while finishing off the final two episodes of Murdaugh: Death in the Family, since we took advantage of Black Friday deals on Hulu+ & Disney, as well as the super cheap offer for HBO Max with ads. 

I hope everyone had a nice holiday. I cut out a lot of the usual national and international news links this time around, because it has been so bonkers lately that I just have to assume everyone is watching or reading the news incessantly like I do. There's a great user on Threads called @decodingfoxnews that transcribes quotes from TFG and rereads them in a woman's voice, so you can hear what the lunatic is saying without actually having to see his dastardly face or hear his vulgar voice. 10/10, highly recommend. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 20, 2025-Wednesday, December 3, 2025: Flamin' Groovies | The Sophs | Dutch Interior | Sure Fire Soul Ensemble | The Stews | Lucius | Beat Farmers | The Frights |

I was feeling extra motivated on Tuesday night and decided I would knock out two weeks of listings, since Thanksgiving week is typically a bit more quiet than other weeks, but it means that I was up until 5:30am on Wednesday to get them done. I have been on the fence about doing a Holiday Page again, as I'd done in the past but have kinda skipped since the pandemmy, but I don't know if I'll motivate enough to do that comprehensive of a roundup. But if you're a sucker for lights and trees and all of those things this time of year, the Dr. Seuss tree is already up at The Old Globe, with the lights on nightly until midnight, Seaworld is looking amazing with their goal of a million lights and the reindeer already being super dupity cute, and the Zoo has put up their lights and things, though they've shortened this year's Jungle Bells to just December 19-January 4. Wild Holidays at Safari Park, on the other hand, kicks off on November 28. "Wild Holidays runs November 28–30; December 19–23; and December 26–January 4, 2026. On Wild Holidays dates, the Safari Park is open until 8 p.m." And while on my way to work the other day, I passed by Queenstown Public House in Little Italy (at Columbia & Cedar) and it is maybe the cutest holiday decor I've seen yet, so be sure to drive by to check it out. In the meantime, lots of stuff. Sorry for the venues that didn't have their December stuff in. Not sure if I'll be updating over the holiday. 

Happy Thanksgiving. Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 13-Wednesday, November 19, 2025: Author & Punisher | Mating Ritual | SCOTS | Judy Collins | Off With Their Heads | Surf Hat | The Surfrajettes |

Literally two weeks after I decided that I would cancel my ACA (because Sharp kept charging me even though they threatened cancellation for two months), I have another ear infection. I'm gonna just ride it out and hope it passes, but in the meantime, I'm very very tired and don't have much else to say. Good stuff coming up. 

I will say one quick thing...someone commented on a Casbah Instagram post that "$60 for a Casbah show is insane" in reference to the three nights with Pinback. While I'm poor and cheap and $60 for anything is a lot of money, I don't see how someone can pay $47.50 plus service fees for a show at Humphrey's among 2000 people, but then quibble about $60 for a show in a room with only 200+ people. You seriously need to check yourself if you think this way. 

Listings for the week are after the jump. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 6-Wednesday, November 12, 2025: Stop Light Observations | Fu Manchu | miniaturized | Neko Case | Moon Panda | Born Ruffians | Tame Impala | Lovejoy | Purity Ring |

I like to get listings done on Tuesdays and spend just a little time on Wednesdays to polish them up, add random events at venues not usually included in the weekly roundup. But I've just not been very motivated. I have a whole lot of theoretical posts in my brain but lose the motivation when it comes to putting my fingers to the keyboard. We never found my cat, and there's this horrible feeling like we didn't do enough to look for her in the first 48 hours. I live across the street from a dive bar, and the women cackling during karaoke always makes me turn down my TV in case I'm hearing a cat's meow. My sleep is all off, even more than usual. I've gone on more 3am walks than I did in my 20s when I was bouncing from after party to after party. I've been going to the zoo every day, but because I'm up late, I sleep late, then get a late jump on work, so by the time I get there, I only have an hour or two to get in my zen mindset. I'm really looking forward to Sea World's Christmas Celebration, because they're open much later than the zoo for a longer period of time starting on November 14. The San Diego Zoo still has Jungle Bells, but this year they've cut it to just a couple weeks in December, from the 19th to January 4th. 

The election was a bright spot this week for sure, so I'm trying to look on the bright side. Maybe I just need to catch up on sleep with a full on pajama day to click me back to normal. With that in mind, I'm going to sleep now. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.