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June 09

June 26, 2009

how could Colorado Springs Rock?

Part PostSecret, part grassroots community project…

In case you haven’t seen it, there are a bunch of blank, stamped postcards floating around. It’s part of icoloradosprings–an anonymous way to get your ideas out there. They have a pretty cool website where they post all the cards. You can be as surreal or as specific as you like - I’m digging the one that talks about moles in suits.

It dovetails nicely with some of the other visioning projects going on around the community, including Dream City.

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June 26, 2009

Iran rally downtown today.

There’s to be a rally today at Acacia Park from 5 to 7 to show support for Iran. We’ll have the typical signs and this-and-that and are considering a march up and down Tejon. Granted, it’s probably going to be a bit wet, but if you have the chance and feel like showing your support for the protests in Iran in pretty much the only way Americans really can, feel free to show up!

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June 23, 2009

There has never been anything funnier than this.

Behold, the trailer for Powder 2: Powder To The People:

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June 22, 2009

Buffy: dusting whiny-ass sparklevamps.

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June 18, 2009

Keith Ol-BURP-Mann

This is my trash talk about how the former ESPN SportsCenter anchor-turned-MSNBC mouthpiece is hated by some media personalities like…

Glenn Beck of FOX News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsI6ELO8Gg
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/645279/glenn_beck_smackdown_on_keith_olbermann/

…and Conservative Talk Radio Show Host Mark Levin (heard weeknights on KVOR 740AM)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/17/mark-levin-calls-msnbc-suspend-keith-olbermann
http://newsbusters.org/node/10618

WATCH MY YOUTUBE VIDEO BY CLICKING BELOW

Keith Ol-BURP-Mann

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June 17, 2009

Bros before hose.

Praise be! Focus adopted a new dress code!

Instead of mandatory dresses and hose, women will now be allowed to wear—wait for it!—pants. And men no longer have to keep a constant hold on their leashes. The best thing is:

“During exit interviews, people always complained about the dress code,” Daly said.

He believes relaxing the code will help Focus attract talented, young Internet technology workers who otherwise would have been put off by having to dress formally every day.

Yes, Focus, it’s your dress code that is keeping people away. Not your, you know, medieval beliefs.

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June 15, 2009

World Events

If you don’t have a twitter account, it’s worth signing up just to follow #iranelection. Twitter is in many ways the only way news is getting out about the outrageous violence against the thousands of citizens protesting the recent election. I’m not one of those people who goes on and on about Twitter, but its ability to capture moment-by-moment news from people on the ground is astonishing. The revolution will not be televised….it will be tweeted. If you’re not on twitter, check out HuffPo’s liveblog.

There’s a really shocking photostream here.

On the other end of the spectrum, here’s some very good news–China had its first Gay Pride last week. Progress is creeping over the globe, little by little (Look! There’s my friends Megan and Nicole getting married in Shanghai. Congratulations!)

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June 10, 2009

How depressed must I be to NOT take enormous pleasure in GM’s bankruptcy?

This excellent spoof of GM’s “Reinvention” campaign ought to get my synapses a-burnin’ with ooey-gooey schadenfreude. But it doesn’t. Part of it’s that the video’s just a little to “anti” for my mellowed, near-30 taste. But beyond that, it’s almost as if hating on GM had become my raison d’être, and now that it’s on the bankruptcy operating table, I don’t know what to do with myself.

Or maybe I’m just thinking about the GM employees. You know, the 99% who haven’t been making colassally bad/evil decisions for decades. To all you folks, sorry about that GM voodoo doll I’ve kept on my toilet tank. From now on I’ll only use it on Ford.

We cool?

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June 8, 2009

Wikkid!

If you enjoy steams and punks, you’ll probably get a kick out of Steampunk Tales, which as been put together by ol’ Non Prophet as a cool little iPhone app. Basically, it’s a fiction periodical featuring some local writers and I’m pretty jealous that I didn’t think of the idea first. But iPhones are a total fad, anyway. Print—that’s where the real money is. Oh, wait.

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June 4, 2009

It seems like only yesterday…

Today marks the 5th anniversary of Marvin Heemeyer’s rampage, in which he welded himself in a custom armored enclosure built on top of a 49-ton bulldozer and proceeded to demolish 13 buildings in and around Granby. Despite hundreds of rounds fired, a grenade dropped down the exhaust stack, and the enlistment of two other pieces of heavy equipment, the police proved utterly unable to stop Heemeyer, who killed himself after his bulldozer eventually overheated and became stuck on a set of stairs.