http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/home.aspxTommy hosts Brunch with Bob and Friends, Living Better In San Diego, and Treehuggers International.en-usCopyright 2010, KBZT-FMTue, 07 Sep 2010 13:18:52 GMTThu, 02 Sep 2010 02:57:42 GMT1http://emmisinteractive.com   Everyone knows the plight of the La Jolla seals is important to me and is one of the key conservation stories in San Diego, but in case you've missed it, this summer has been especially tough for our seal friends at the Children's Pool.Things were actually looking up earlier this year, when the city council voted to increase seal protection and close the beach during pupping season. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, the rope barrier which keeps the public at a safe distance was taken down, and Mayor Sanders, for whatever reason, has refused to put it back.So this summer has seen the Children's Pool overrun with people with no rope to even stop someone for a moment from approaching the seals. The result has been bedlam. While most people genuinely just want to look at the seals, they don't realize approaching them too closely forces the seals into the water, thereby tiring them after ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10136546tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10136546Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:57:42 GMT Phil and Mitch at the final Stone Brewing "Beer Guys" segment. Philip Smith Former Distribution Manager (King) at Stone Brewing Moving home to Seattle, we'll miss you pal! Peter Tosh  -  "You Can't Blame the Youth" (1973) Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer  -  "Redemption Song" (2003) The Hold Steady  -  "Constructive Summer" (2008) Warren Zevon  -  "Lawyers Guns and Money" (1978) ZZ Top  -  "Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" (1973) Beastie Boys  -  "Something's Got to Give" (1992) Rage Against the Machine (live in Dusseldorf)  -  "Ghost of Tom Joad" (2000) The Replacements  -  "Alex Chilton" (1987) Pearl Jam  -  "Yellow Ledbetter" (1992) Talking Heads  -  "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (1983) Like what you hear? Download Phil's whole Coup d'etat HERE (with no commercials). Also, as a bonus, to hear the last Stone Brewing "Beer Guys" appearance on the old FM 94/9 morning ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10122423tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10122423Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:59:56 GMT A full listing of all coastal San Diego County Hands Across the Sand events, Saturday June 26th, compiled by our friends at the San Diego and Imperial County Sierra Club chapter. For additional information on Hands Across the Sand and other coastal conservation and clean-up events, check out the San Diego Surfrider chapter, along with our friends at San Diego Coastkeeper, Pro Peninsula, and Wildcoast. What to do at a Hands Across the Sand event: STEP 1 - Go to one of the gatherings listed below at 11:00 am for one hour, rain or shine. STEP 2 - Join hands for 15 minutes at 12:00 noon forming lines in the sand against oil drilling in our coastal waters. STEP 3 - Leave only your footprints. CARDIFF BY THE SEA, SAN ELIJO Roxanne Hughes roxygeorgia@roadrunner.com (760) 707-4075 Hwy. 101 south of Chesterfield Dr. on the south side of the San Elijo ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10122579tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10122579Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:57:10 GMT Illustration by Shepard Fairey (who also designed the FM 94/9 logo). "If you don't vote, don't bitch."  -  Steve Earle Click HERE to be taken to the Treehuggers International page with Tommy's picks for the June 8th, 2010 primary election. Tommy's picks do not necessarily represent those of Lincoln Financial Media or FM 94/9, and are purely his own choices. For a complete list of all statewide candidates and propositions on the June 8th primary ballot, click HERE. http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10116950tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10116950Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:15:44 GMTYou may have heard me talking about Joseph Diliberti on the air the last couple of weeks. Joseph is a retired Marine and a Vietnam veteran, and for years he's been living somewhat off the grid in Dehesa, near Granite Hills and Alpine, among the native chaparral and shrubs of our area. Unfortunately, not long after the Cedar Fire in 2003, San Diego County embarked upon a controversial program trimming "brush," which in many cases, wound up being the very native vegetation found naturally in San Diego County which doesn't burn with the ferocity as the invasive and introduced grasses and palm trees which have come to adorn area homes and businesses.  I've covered this phenomena and the benefits of our native shrubbery in conjunction with Rick Halsey and the California Chaparral Institute on several editions of Treehuggers International. In 2004, the old-growth chaparral on Joseph Diliberti's property was cut ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10116155tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10116155Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:55:57 GMT Hard to believe, but it's been 30 years since the incredible Miracle On Ice game on February 22, 1980 at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, when the amateur U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the professional, and feared, Soviet hockey team, and went on to win the Gold Medal by defeating Finland two days later. I remember doing my math homework while watching this on TV with my dad.  It really was an amazing moment, and for Generation X'ers, it's really become something of a cultural benchmark. Just look at the cover of Sports Illustrated above: it was the first issue of Sports Illustrated ever issued without a caption or headline. None was needed, the photo by German photographer Heinz Kluetmeier said it all. Enjoy the clip. Here's a great compilation of highlights from the game (never mind the overly-dramatic introductory titles). http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10098971tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10098971Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:58:42 GMTIt's been a while since I've written a new blog posting, so my apologies if you've been waiting around for something new, old, or borrowed, but this was something which couldn't wait, and unfortunately, something I also couldn't say on the air without breaking several FCC guidelines. Seeing how I've been doing radio professionally for the last two decades and I'm the Public Affairs Director for the cluster of stations FM 94/9 is a part of, I'm expected to know this stuff. So while I didn't necessarily have an outlet to give out this website's name on the air, I did have a way to pass it along without breaking any FCC rules on the zany, unregulated Wild West of the web. Taste, class, and decency are all called into question here, but those niceties have long been in short supply around the FM 94/9 locker room. So get ready: it's time you got hip ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10094973tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10094973Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:08:48 GMT Help save California's State Parks from closure! Not since John Muir famously trekked from San Francisco across the San Joaquin Valley to find his home in the craggy high country of the Sierra Nevada have California's state parks faced the kind of threat they are facing at this hour. The threats come not from fire, earthquake, or storm, but from the threat of closure, of padlocking and sealing off 80% of a park system which has justifiably become the envy of the nation. After surviving a brush with mass closures in 2008 and the hard-fought "Save Trestles" movement to save the integrity of state parks by preventing a toll road from being built through the heart of the San Onofre backcountry, the Governor's current recommendation to mothball, padlock, and cut off Californians from their state parks in the name of fiscal necessity is cruelly rash. If 80% of California's state park ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10034119tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10034119Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:56:48 GMT The iconic vista of the Teton Range and the Snake River is the cover of Ian Shive's new book. Fresh from giving a presentation to lawmakers at the Capitol in Washington D.C. and meeting with newly-confirmed National Park Service chief John Jarvis, conservationist and outdoor photographer Ian Shive talks about his new book The National Parks: Our American Landscape. After years of assignments and photography work with the National Parks Conservation Association and other environmental entities, Ian's book encapsulates some four years of photography work and travel around the country, along with essays by the NPCA's National Parks editors, who detail their experiences of collaborating with Ian Shive in their Washington offices and in the field. Ian also talks about his photography technique, the effect of climate change on National Parks and America's special places, the fear-based culture of the outdoors which has grown out of extreme sports and irresponsible media, the work his new multimedia center ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10074936tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10074936Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:14:49 GMT The steep slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains make firefighting doubly exhausting. This week, wildland firefighter and fire ecologist Rick Halsey returns to Treehuggers International.  The founder and director of the Escondido-based California Chaparral Institute, Rick is also a member of the San Diego Regional Fire Safety Forum, and the author of the book Fire, Chaparral, and Survival In Southern California, now in its second edition from Sunbelt Publications. With major wildfires having blackened scores of acres in the Golden State this year in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Gold Country, Santa Barbara (four times in 12 months), Mendocino County, Sonoma County, Sacramento County, and elsewhere, it seems every season is fire season in California, but few in the Southland were ready for the size and duration of the Station Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains above Altadena, La Cañada Flintridge, and Tujunga. Ultimately the fire set a notorious record, as the largest wildfire ever ...http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10052277tommy.hough@lincolnfinancialmedia.com (Tommy)http://www.fm949sd.com/blogs/tommy/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10052277Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:05:19 GMT