Your Mileage May Vary
Posted on April 13, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Film, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
The Gray Lady covers a kerfuffle surrounding the Russian film Taras Bulba, adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel. “Ultranationalist” politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently likes what he sees: “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.” Meanwhile, “The premiere inspired viewers in [...]
Read More..>>ipso facto*
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Crime, Religion, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
(according to a Slate commenter1): implications of Nebraskan judge dismissing suit against God: 1. God is not present in Nebraska, nor expected there anytime soon. 2. God does not have a house in Nebraska. 3. God has never done anything in Nebraska. 4. No one in Nebraska is authorized to speak or act in God’s [...]
Read More..>>Tonz ‘o’ Gunz
Posted on September 22, 2008 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
So this is what I’m missing at gunshows. tonz-o-gunz
Read More..>>Hee-Haw! Got y’all in check!
Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under Statistics, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Jack Schultz at BoomtownUSA feels compelled to compare the state of North Dakota with the city of San Francisco, and decides that North Dakota is superior to San Francisco in every way. I occasionally check in on the BoomtownUSA feeds in my bloglines to read about small-ish (usually mid-western) towns — the kind of towns [...]
Read More..>>even from Frisco, still my Homaha
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under Books, Crime, Religion, Stickin' It To The Man, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Okay, 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 [...]
Read More..>>Smells Like Government
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Music, The Man Stickin It To Us, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
All 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 [...]
Read More..>>Profiling Fail
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Photo: 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.
Read More..>>If It Don’t Make Dollars, It Don’t Make Sense
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Great 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 Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
The Gray Lady meets Omaha film organization meets social “commentary”: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/white-people-in-the-news-march-20th-2008/
Read More..>>Bluffs Run
Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Council 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 [...]
Read More..>>Slapped The Mac(intosh)
Posted on January 5, 2008 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Crime, Faith, Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Once 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 [...]
Read More..>>Dummy if I was on drugs I wouldn’t be tired
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under Drinking, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Backstory: 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 closed up [...]
Read More..>>then there were three
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Turf Wars, Writers | Leave a Comment
1. Texarkana 2. Michiana 3. Kerouaciana
Read More..>>Breaking Down The Zip Codes
Posted on November 5, 2007 - Filed Under Statistics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
zipskinny.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%). [...]
Read More..>>Yeah, but even they are called the “White” Stripes
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Just 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 [...]
Read More..>>Coffee, coffee, coffee
Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under Caffeine, Pain, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Dear 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 Philosophy, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Today’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 [...]
Read More..>>Judged by the company you keep
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under Turf Wars, Words (In Print) I Hate | 1 Comment
So 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…
Read More..>>Oregon Trail
Posted on August 3, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Kite 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 [...]
Read More..>>net division
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
myspace:greasers::facebook:socs?
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