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36 SanDiegoMagazine.comNovember2011

❯❯ CITYFILES

CRAIGSLIST’S

GREATEST HITS

One month of choice off ers

from your neighbors

*All ads culled from craigslist.org

September 15-21, 2011.

Missed Connection: You

delivered my pizza (La Jolla)

“So, I sorta looked like a slob while

I was taking our many pizzas

from you, but man you were hot. If

interested ... tell me what you com-

plimented me on in the entryway.”

Williams-Sonoma

onion cutter

(blooming onions!),

$16 (Carlsbad)

“I bought this because I was

going to be Betty Crocker

... but it didn’t happen. Box

not even opened.”

Missed Connection:

Balboa Dog Park

“I have seen a very cute

looking boy maybe

mid-twenties ... I never

know if it’s awkward for

me to ask a guy if he is

single at the dog park,

so I just roamed around

you with my pooch.”

Sharing one bedroom

house, $100 weekly

(Imperial Beach)

“SWF renting out sofa and

space for personals. ... I have

a simple life so no drama

please. Okay, maybe a little,

but make it good!”

Missed Connection:

White Chrysler Sebring

(52-W before 15)

“Hey there, thank you for

the smiles. ...Wanted to

let you know your driver

side brake light is out.”

Hardrock

Woman’s Bike,

$250 (North

County)

Present from

the soon-to-be

ex-husband ...

don’t need the

memories. NEED

TO GET RID OF

YESTERDAY!

N

 RANDOM RESIDENTS 

Klingon Couple Clings To

Each Other For 28 Years

Some couples just try to hold on,

but Debbie and Dennis Hanon of

Mira Mesa prefer to “kling on.”

The Hanons just celebrated their

28th anniversary and Debbie, 47,

credits the Klingons, the fi ctional

warrior race from the Star Trek

universe, for their marital bliss.

“In a Klingon marriage, the

husband and wife focus on each

other,” says Debbie who works for

Cubic Corporation when she and Dennis aren’t dressing up for

parties, Comic-Con, or for school assemblies where they teach

kids how to resolve confl icts a la the Klingons.

Klingons have a violent rep, so isn’t having them teach confl ict

resolution a tad inappropriate?

Not to Dennis, 55, who works at FICO when not presiding over the

IKV Stranglehold, one of America’s most prominent Klingon clubs.

“We explain that weapons and violence are not necessary in

schools,” he says. “Klingons are warriors, but there is strength in

talking things out, and we give them the warrior wisdom to do

just that.”

Those same cherished Klingon customs are helping the Ha-

nons’ college-age kids thrive in the real world.

“They are both very determined,” she says. “My daughter wants

to be a dental assistant and she has jumped right into it because

she wants to succeed.”

Before the Hanons became Klingons, they were members of

a Star Trek club that was more focused on Starfl eet and, conse-

quently, “more adult.”

Dennis says it wasn’t a good fi t.

“What is the point of wearing the costume if you’re not going

to play?” he asks rhetorically. // DAVID MOYE

This article is the culmination of a 30-year-old dream. “I’ve
had two main goals in my life. One is to have a job that
doesn’t require me to wear a tie and the other is to be pub-
lished in San Diego Magazine,” said Moye, 46, a lifelong La
Mesa resident who is a staff writer for Huff Post Weird News.
Writing about the weird comes naturally to Moye, who has
been specializing in the off beat, bizarre, strange, and quirky for the past 16 years.
“The rise of the Internet proved that weird news is one of the most popular
genres,” he said. I see it this way: Weird news is news people want to read, rather
than have to read.”
As far as goals go, Moye hasn’t worn a tie in a year (check) and he is now pub-
lished in San Diego Magazine (check), so where does he go from here?
“Honestly, I am running a stealth campaign to be featured in San Diego Maga-
zine’s ‘Ones to Watch’ issue,” he confessed. “However, I just this second realized
that telling people you’re doing a stealth campaign sort of defeats the purpose.”

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