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July 28, 2006
These are the upcoming shows for August at the Whitney Electric, a new space/venue located on N Tejon St right next to Wooglins. The following music events are primarily of a “hardcore” nature, but there’s a bit of eclecticism at play also, such as the all acoustic 8/12 show! Please consult our myspace page (http://myspace.com/methadone) for up to the milisecond info and such as there will probably be other events added throughout the month (art shit, movie screenings, etc.) though I will post that info here as well. All shows “start” at 8pm and will be $5:
Aug 5…Stand Before the Firing Squad, Runsfasterscared, G-13
Aug 6…Wilmot Proviso, Ladybic, Numbers Like Dinosaurs, Grand Color Crayon
Aug 11…Daniel Striped Tiger, Tenebre, Runsfasterscared, Green Fuse, Brilliant Red Lights, New American Paintins
Aug 12…Don Dooley (of b street open mic fame), Jewn the Exploding Ticket!!!, Andy Newman
Aug 17…Robinson, My Wife the Tramp, Runsfasterscared
Aug 26…The Lymbic System, Attack of the Giant Squid
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July 26, 2006
Going through some old photos last night I came upon this gem from the
gay and lesbian march on Washington. I honestly don’t think this could
be any more 1993. No one outside the hardcore dorkosphere was hip to
email in 1992 and in 1994 it wasn’t enough of a novelty to justify a
T-shirt.
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July 26, 2006
Be sure to put it “Manic Mode” (via SLOG)
Posted by: darksandal in Uncategorized | Permalink 1 Comment
July 26, 2006
(this origianlly appeared at the High Plains Messenger)
I grew up running throught the china-lined aisles of the Whickerbill, and somehow avoided breaking anything until I was well intro my 20s. John Eastham, my godfather and the propietor, would often chase me through maze of tables crammed with crystal, pottery and other myriad fineries arrayed throughout the shotgun length of his shop like a celestial mosaic. 30 years later, I marvel to see him chase my 5-year-old through the same aisles with equal abandon. Everything about him is abundance and generosity.
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July 21, 2006
We’ve all missed Oslo (now going by his full name Oslek) from the print edition of the Toilet Paper, but now he’s back! And reviewing a squirrel product nonetheless! For some reason the 465 CFM Squirrel Cage Exhaust Fan is in Kitchen and Housewares. Hmmm….
Squirrel Cage Exhaust Fan Works Well in Bliss or Miss
Reviewer: Oslek Jargo "Tempt me Devil!" (FINLAND) The
Squirrel Cage Exhaust Fan is a wonder to farmers who own large amounts
of chickens and who need a remedy for the stale, tepid, bad breath
found in their beaks. When grouped in the thousands, it can pose a
severe health risk, as the methane is a type of poisonous gas which
causes headaches, incurable warts and sore feet. The Exhaust Fan is
placed near a window and plugged in, in time, it ushers the malodorous
air out into the atmosphere. Can also be used in Pork Processing
Pigatories, in Alligator egg nesting chambers or as a Squirrel
projectile unit which launches squirrels into the air at oncoming car
traffic. Comes with a "Digestive System of Worms" book and a years
supply of cavity prevention gel for tortoises.
For full product description go here. Welcome back, Oslek! We’ve missed you!
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July 19, 2006
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July 18, 2006
What’s with all the tectonic shifts in the local media lately? KRDO got sold. The publisher of the Gazette stepped down recently. The Independent recently announced that Cara Degette, editor of the Independent, is going down to 3/5 time and resigning her post soon after managing editor Vanessa Martinez announced her departure to start a new weekly in Ft. Collins. Mario Valdes, head of KRCC for 26 years, didn’t get his contract renewed. Oh, and the Messenger went non-profit by the skin of its teeth.
Good luck to Mario who, cantankerous though he may have been at times, did a great service for our community. Congratulations to Delaney Utterback who will be his replacement. Here’s the text from the G on Valdes’ departure:
Manager out after 26 years at radio KRCC
By ANDREW WINEKE THE GAZETTEAfter more than 26 years at public radio station KRCC (91.5 FM), Mario Valdes is out as station manager after Colorado College, KRCC’s owner, didn’t renew his contract.
“I’m going to be a little shaky at first with the idea of divorce KRCC,” Valdes said. “It lasted longer than my marriage.”
Neither Valdes nor CC officials would talk specifically about what led to his June 30 departure, but he had a public spat with the college last winter after it failed to renew an end-of-theyear budget allotment he was expecting.
“He did some great things for the station, and we wish him well and thank him for all the great things he did,” said Jane Turnis, CC’s media relations manager.
Delaney Utterback, the station’s office manager and a longtime volunteer deejay, was named the station’s general manager. He was on vacation Monday and could not be reached for comment. Turnis said the college will form a new community advisory panel in the fall and re-evaluate the station’s organizational structure.
Valdes said KRCC will be fine without him, and he praised Utterback’s knowledge and ability.
“Everybody who’s there is going to make the right decisions because they all love the station,” he said. “I don’t think what comes out of the speaker is likely to change dramatically. Not likely to change at all.”
Valdes, a music collector who started at the station as a volunteer in 1979, became the station’s manager and first paid employee in 1980 and first full-time employee in 1983.
An architect by trade, Valdes is responsible for much of how the station is run and sounds today.
When he began volunteering, KRCC signed off when the student volunteers went on summer break, or even when they went to dinner. Under Valdes’ leadership, the station became a National Public Radio affiliate in 1984 and started a local news program, “Western Skies” in 2005.
“When you have a mind for building things, what you build is kind of besides the point,” Valdes said.
Lou Mellini, general manager of KILO (94.3 FM) and KYZX (103.9 FM) said Valdes improved KRCC and was able to play alternative music the commercial stations wouldn’t touch.
“He did an outstanding job with KRCC,” Mellini said.
Valdes, who suffered a stroke in December, said leaving KRCC isn’t the worst thing to happen to him this year.
“This is not frightening compared to not being able to speak, not being able to walk,” he said. “I don’t have to freak out about this.”
CC and Valdes had a public disagreement over the station’s funding in January and February of this year. Since 1984, the college provided KRCC with a supplemental subsidy equal to about 10 percent of the station’s budget, but it discontinued the appropriation last year.
Valdes and college officials disagreed about when the station was told about the cuts; CC officials said they actually increased funding for the station in the form of seed money to launch “Western Skies.”
Mark Goldberg, a longtime local deejay who occasionally volunteered at KRCC for pledge drives, said Valdes had a fiery reputation, but he praised Valdes for bringing professionalism to the station and keeping it local.
“I always respected Mario,” Goldberg said. “He always had a pretty good touch with the community for what’s going on.”
Valdes said he’s ready to move on without KRCC.
“With any luck at all,” he said, “I’ll actually be able to finish my house, be able to move my stuff back to where it belongs and decide what I want to do with myself after that.”
CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0275 or
awineke@gazette.com
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July 18, 2006
Upon waking up after a long sleep:
“Gee whiz I had a great night with my brain!”
Upon waking up cranky and stepping outside onto the front porch to address the wildlife in the front yard:
“Shut up squirrels!”
Before bed recently (transcribed as accurately as I could, and I have no idea where any of this came from):
We’re going to write all of America’s sentences.
We’re going to shut down the machines that make parents go to work.
What makes the sense?
What makes the sense of a human being a robot?
And makes his brain shut down and turn his brain around and make this stupid piece of machine turn into shit.
I don’t know a fucking thing.
Those workers are babies.
Turning their machine into a piece of shit and then into a scrapbook in outer space.
We’re gonna show them that we’re never gonna make a new robot.
We’re gonna shut down their heads.
They worked for their stupid shit,
and what are they gonna tell themselves?
We are gonna say:
Let’s smash up the president’s head,
make a lump on his head with a hammer
and make him come to a dead grave.
We should slice him open and put his outside parts and eat the meat out of his intestines.
That’s what we are going to do.
And I’d pretty much say that’s the end.
Ah, my charming 5 year old!
Posted by: darksandal in Ursen | Permalink 5 Comments
July 17, 2006
Here’re the top results for the Phelps Photoshop contest. I’ll save you some anxiety — everybody whose photos are included won. Yay, you! But especially yay for Joseph Kleene, whose Photoshopped Santorum/Phelps gay couple made me well up with tears, and who wins more than the others.
(p.s., we’re still accepting submissions at editor@toiletpaperonline.com)
Click on the thumbnails for bigger images.
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July 17, 2006
What is it with all the closings lately? Blabbing Mike, the local superfreak who started Colorado Springs’ only newscaster papparazzi blog, has supposedly called it quits, sorta, after 4 years. I had planned on writing a story about him for the Messenger called, “In the Kingdom of the Bored, The Newscaster is King” about the cult of of newsies in a celebrity vacuum, but alas, Mike is now only taking photos of First Responders and local community events. Boooo. But why does his blog seem to be exactly the same?
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