even from Frisco, still my Homaha
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaOkay, maybe the only time I’ve heard the term “Homaha” is in a facebook group, but a few links from the interwebs caught my eyes lately.
Jonathan Segura, in support of his novel Occupational Hazards, blogs about Omaha at Powell’s, including a nod to the “miraculously” alive Dave Sink at The Antiquarium (which last I head [...]
Smells Like Government
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAll ages shows in Omaha? lazy-i breaks it down….
It’s been about 20 years since I’ve been to an Omaha City Council meeting, and in that time nothing has changed about the council chambers — the paneled décor, the dirty upholstered chairs, the institutional florescent lighting. The place even smells the same, a mixture of dust, [...]
Profiling Fail
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPhoto: Frederic Larson (SF Chronicle)
Bridge manager Kary Witt said cameras are trained on the span, but that authorities at first didn’t realize what the protesters were doing because they wore “ordinary” clothing and pushed a baby stroller.
If It Don’t Make Dollars, It Don’t Make Sense
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGreat Questions of Our Time, Volume One: “Can you make money in Portland, Ore.? It’s a cool city, it’s got lots of hipsters, but can you make money?“
Read More..>>Omaha - Stuff White People Like
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Gray Lady meets Omaha film organization meets social “commentary”:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/white-people-in-the-news-march-20th-2008/
Bluffs Run
Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentCouncil Bluffs* gets the BoomtownUSA treatment.
Council Bluffs, IA (population 58,268) is a town on a roll. It has a good, diversified manufacturing base and is quickly expanding an already strong retail base. In the past five years it has built/landed a new 60,000 sf convention center, 6,000 seat arena, a Bass Pro and many other [...]
Slapped The Mac(intosh)
Posted on January 5, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentOnce again, Anonymous brings the logix:
it’s all psychological. if anyone is willing to make the change from PC to Mac it’s like starting off on a clean slate. so many Mac owners probably see it as an atonement for their illegally downloading sins, and want to keep their computers clean with legal downloads. it’s easier [...]
Dummy if I was on drugs I wouldn’t be tired
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBackstory: I live in an old Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn that has gradually become more and more saturated by people like me. A few of the old neighborhood bars have been completely taken over by the gentrifiers, while some accomodate the new and the old quite nicely. The one closest to my house [...]
Read More..>>then there were three
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment1. Texarkana
2. Michiana
3. Kerouaciana
Breaking Down The Zip Codes
Posted on November 5, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentzipskinny.com offers some side-by-side information on U.S. zip codes based on census information, blah, blah, blah….
InI decided to break down where I’m from (68134) versus where I’m at (94118). Some notes:
94118 has a higher median income ($61,609 > $43,294), yet has a higher percentage of people below the poverty line (8.2% > 5.7%).
68134 has a [...]
Yeah, but even they are called the “White” Stripes
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJust in time for CMJ, Sasha Frere-Jones tells us that rock is a pastey ghost of its former self.
[I]n the past few years, I’ve spent too many evenings at indie concerts waiting in vain for vigor, for rhythm, for a musical effect that could justify all the preciousness.
How did rhythm come to be [...]
Coffee, coffee, coffee
Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDear Ad Wizard,
Do I need a Cleveland Steamer to make Icepresso?
And that reminds me … I’m not sure I grok how a book can be frothy, but whatever. What I really want to know is who GULPS cappuccino besides the staff at Essential magazine apparently?
Read More..>>Lousy Democrats
Posted on September 18, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentToday’s Times provides some tasty tidbits – some might even say non sequiturs – on the margins of Dr. Jonathan Haidt’s (pronounced height) theory of the evolution of innate moral principles.
“Imagine visiting a town,†Dr. Haidt writes, “where people wear no clothes, never bathe, have sex ‘doggie style’ in public, and eat raw meat by [...]
Judged by the company you keep
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentSo if you wanted to sell yourself, I mean, really sell yourself, why not list that you know me?
Disclaimer: I, on the other hand, may not necessarily claim to remember you, though I’m sure it was real, Larry…
Oregon Trail
Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentKite Pilot packed up all their game and headed out west to Portland, only to return to Omaha. Tim McMahan with the details1 and hints of a Saddle-Creek/Omaha “stigma”:
Saddle Creek hanging over their heads? Did he mean that he feels there’s a stigma being from Omaha and not being on Creek? “That is a real [...]
net division
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentmyspace:greasers::facebook:socs?
Read More..>>y’all - “it’s science”
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGrammar Girl, in a discussion of speech regionalisms, etc…
And, here’s an aside about y’all. Most sources agree that y’all should only be used to address groups (8, 9), and Southerners say that Northerners give themselves away as Yankees when they use y’all to address one person (8). In addition, I’m not absolutely certain about this, [...]
I’ve got a feeling I’m not in Kansas City any more
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPlaying around with “Windows Live Search for Mobile” 1, I thought I’d test out search/browse:
Categories >> Restaurants >> Barbecue Restaurants
(waiting a second, anticipating tomorrow’s lunch)
only to find the top results:
McDonald’s
701 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415)278-0416
back to the drawing board, I guess.
1 Who’s the ad wizard who came up with name “Windows Live Search for Mobile”? [...]
Read More..>>I will DARE
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment44 Years in the making, the final volume of DARE (Dictionary of American Regional English) will soon* be upon us, Andy Erdman reports in the Wisconsin State Journal:
For example, DARE explains that the children’s game most Wisconsinites call “duck, duck, goose” is called “duck, duck, gray duck” in Minnesota and “duck, duck, drake” in Pennsylvania. [...]
back in the saddle
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentLast weekend (the 5th of May for those scoring at home), I went to North Beach for the first time in a while. I guess I tend to steer clear because it can be a little crowded with enough tourists & striped shirts to dissuade me — my own feeble hangups, I know. Regardless, a [...]
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