5 Day Forecast
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaEdit Friday brain attacks strike back. Royals & Hold Steady aren’t until the week after next. thxkbai - the managment
Friday
Possibly head over to my old hood’s Bookshop West Portal to see Ethan Canin (who’s latest earned a “fucking brilliant” at Jodi’s)
Saturday
I had been thinking of going the see Feist at the Greek Theater [...]
Knitting Stuff
Posted on March 26, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentMy younger sister recently launched her knitting gift & supplies site: Tiny Lady Cooperative with some of her knitting pals. Apparently their grand-opening was a huge success, and I see their next “stocking” will be April 8th at 2pm. I can attest that she is quite crafty. If you know anybody into knitting, etc… check [...]
Read More..>>For The Children, too
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under
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Read More..>>Recession Beaters
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under
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All Fiction $4.00
Read More..>>Yakov Smirnoff Sighting
Posted on May 15, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master’s degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.”
Read More..>>$12,000,000 worth of non-guilt
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentUniversal music, despite claims of no wrong-doing, has settled with the New York Attorney General to pay $12,000,000 after investigations into their payoyla schemes. Apparently, a number of the people begging for Nick Lachey, Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, and Lindsay Lohan (among others) were on the take.
In other (presumably lower-stakes) pay-for-play news, Maud [...]
A Man A Plan, A Blog, Golb An Alpan Ama!
Posted on February 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentEd has the goods on a Jonatahan Ames reading in the Haight.
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Pining for a mysteriously dark album by a (formerly) aspiring baseball player, Beat obsessed, recovering alcoholic Omaha native who regularly sojourned to New Orleans to busk? This may be a good start.
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Ice-T will speak at the re-opening of an Omaha Library branch. A pretty [...]
Fourth Branch
Posted on January 18, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHere’s a video from an Immortal Technique (via youtube).
Warning: Contains graphic images.
Under Construction
Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’ll be doing some blog maintenance, so in the meantime blinking lights, etc… may be expected
Read More..>>Quick Quiz
Posted on December 19, 2005 - Filed Under
| 1 Comment via OGIC. Please jump in.
Four jobs you’ve had in your life: dishwasher, telemarketer, computer programmer, referee
Four movies you could watch over and over: The Karate Kid, Road House, Goodfellas, The Jerk
Four places you’ve lived: Omaha, South Bend, Kansas City, San Francisco
Four TV shows you love to watch: America’s Funniest Videos, [...]
When similes attack
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“Changing technology has left the CD single, like the parrot in Monty Python’s pet shop, pining for the fjords, still standing only because he was stapled to his perch.”
Read More..>>Kids say the darnedest things
Posted on October 13, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAnd when they’re talking about camel toads, it’s not a psychedelic drug…
Read More..>>you think of an idea and you are excited by it, you should do it - it’s a responsibility to carry it out
Posted on October 11, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA few months ago, I couldn’t fall asleep. It may have been the onset of summer, I don’t really recall, but it was Friday night, my gal was asleep, and I needed to howl. So I checked the web and saw that the hook had a late show, and since it’s just around [...]
Read More..>>Archives
Posted on August 30, 2005 - Filed Under
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Will Sheff Interview
Posted on April 6, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTim McMahan interviews Okkervil River’s Will Sheff
Sheff said line-up changes are one of the realities of being a relatively unknown indie band. "When it started, we were all really good friends from a small town of 500 with nothing to do but make our own music for fun," he said. "The fact is, it’s hard [...]
Camille Paglia Interview
Posted on April 5, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentCamille Paglia is interviewed at bookslut, discussing her new book Break, Blow, Burn. Break, Blow, Burn was added to my TBR list after I read Clive James’ recent review. Maybe it’s my natural affinitiy for lightning rods, which Paglia by all account is, pitted against popular opinion’s pendulums, for better or worse. I admit I’ve [...]
Read More..>>While Tom Cruise Was Busy Manning The Glory Hole
Posted on March 16, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment"Kilmer played along when the fan approached him as he stood at the urinal in the men’s toilets … and said to him, ‘You can be my wing man anytime.’ … Val said, ‘No man — you can be mine.’"
Read More..>>Are You A Bad Indian Girl?
Posted on March 14, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFind out at BadIndianGirl.com.
Read More..>>Blogtastic
Posted on March 8, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHighlights from the ’sphere today:
I find out at Golden Rule Jones that today is the anniversay of Sherwood Anderson’s 1941 death. He "died in Colon, Panama, of peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick with his hors d’oeuvre at a cocktail party." Grotesque to the max!
OGIC breaks down the blogoshpere’s 5 Movie Quotes. I’d like to see [...]
Library turns monitoring of videos over to parents…
Posted on February 20, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment…Parents group flips out. Regarding wether or not libraries should restrict what minors check out, the Omah Public Library’s stance: "It’s more the role of the parent to decide the issue than the library". Families First spokesdrone Jeff Downing prostests "that the library’s "blocking" policy puts the responsibility on parents"
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