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November 07
November 30, 2007
Yes, from natural causes (related to destroying himself, of course).
This detail is touching:
His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.
Posted by: darksandal in Sports | Permalink 1 Comment
November 29, 2007
Noticed this today at 2pm coming home but not at noon going past.
Posted by: marinaeckler in WeSawU | Permalink 22 Comments
November 29, 2007
Just got word from Maggie Quinn that her and Bobby G’s excellent new gallery in Manitou, WeUsOur, just got their liquor license. Couldn’t be a better place or a better local duo to support. Go on down and have yourself a beer or a glass of wine!
Posted by: darksandal in Let's Win! | Permalink 1 Comment
November 29, 2007
… for everyone still staring at the trees
HERE’s her interview from last night’s Democracy Now.
HERE’s a piece she wrote for the Guardian UK outlining 10 steps all dictatorships take to shut down democracy.
What’s interesting about her premise is that, rather than focus on the atrocities of full-blown dictatorship, she looks at the comparatively mild early years of a wide swath of em.
Posted by: darksandal in Vast Phil Collins Conspiracy | Permalink 10 Comments
November 29, 2007
‘Member that funny viral “Chocolate Rain” video, sung by that weird guy? Well, he’s back, and instead of just him, singing in front of a white wall, he’s got a blinged-out video sponsored by Dr. Pepper. Witness:
Posted by: Aaron Retka in Gossip | Permalink 1 Comment
November 29, 2007
Please come out to this meeting. This city’s long overdue for many needed changes in its treatment of cycling as an important form of alternative transportation, and the PPABC is need of more bodies and voices to reinforce the need. Here’s the agenda:
The final PPABC meeting of 2007 will be at the Trails and Open Space Coalition office:
Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Topics: Review the successes of 2007
Discuss challenges and goals for 2008.
- Safe Routes to School
- Rider Education
- Crosswalk rules and safety
- Cycling Events
- Commuter Blog
The TOPS Coalition office is underneath the Red Cross offce near the top of the hill on 8th Street just south of Wal-Mart.
Posted by: darksandal in Bikes! | Permalink Comments
November 29, 2007
Go go gadget Bll Moyers:
Quickly send a letter to all your reps and Kevin Martin of the FCC before Dec. 11 HERE
(thx Trish!)
Posted by: darksandal in Uncategorized | Permalink 1 Comment
November 29, 2007
The bitter chill has brought the mice and their turds into our home in previously unseen numbers this fall. So far I’ve snap-trapped eight of them. Granted, we live on the Westside where homes are as porous as Swiss cheese, but with their increased numbers they also seem to have become more brazen. We’ve found trails of dark turds across the back of our counter like hyphens in a long, invisible sentence for weeks. They found a way to get into our stash of fast-food condiments and turned the mustard (and ONLY the mustard) packets into a fine foil confetti that glinted amongst their myriad poos in the bottom of the drawer. The coup de grace was a crowning turd left atop a translucent peel of garlic in a hanging wire basket that it could only have reached with a leap of supermousean strength.
We have neighbors who collect these vermin in “humane” traps and take them out to Palmer Park to deposit them in the wilds where they almost certainly freeze to death, become prey, or move into the walls of the residents of the neighborhoods surrounding Palmer Park. I’m not sure that’s any more humane than the mere five seconds it takes for them to stop twitching and scratching at the hard wood floors after the trap has snapped their necks, noses just millimeterss from the little chunks of cheddar cheese dotted with a few spots of blood atop the clever blonde wood plank they so eagerly walked.
Forgive me, Mouse Gods, but until someone invents a mouse diaper or litter box I’ll be putting out snap-traps and sleeping soundly in the assurance of the turd free counter top that will greet me in the morning after I hear that wicked crack and brief scratching at my floors.
I tried, for a while, tossing them to the fox who live in an old country sewer tunnel that runs beneath our house, but they apparently like live prey. I’d find their dessicated bodies like little rugs in the gutter days later.
“Have a happy time in the underlife, mousy,” Ursen says as I bag them in old grocery sacks and place them in their garbage tomb
Indeed.
Posted by: darksandal in Food and Drink | Permalink 14 Comments
November 29, 2007
So Wonkette has been documenting the exploits of a certain subset of the political world they’re called “Paultards”—people who are so committed to Ron Paul’s campaign that they hand out Paul ‘08 Slim Jims at Best Buy, hold endless bull sessions devoted to gushing about him and, as you’ll see below, construct gigantic blimps for the purpose of barnstorming Hobbiton.
How festive! After all, what says DISMANTLING THE ENTIRE FUCKING GOVERNMENT like a happy, floaty blimp? Yay!
Posted by: Aaron Retka in Election '08 | Permalink 18 Comments
November 29, 2007
This segment of Springs Culture Cast Sessions features a performance by Be Thou My Vision.
Posted by: Klayton Elliot Kendall in Music | Permalink 10 Comments
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