Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
There have been three sizable earthquakes in the L.A. area in the past 15 years, one of them serious, yet people are still paying upwards of $750,000 for a small single-family home in that area.
I just don't f*cking get it.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
One year later...
In about two or three days, it will be a year since I broke my leg. These things are pretty traumatic when they happen although they register only slightly on the Big Picture screen. It's the things that happen outside of yourself that really take over the picture.
Nine ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
http://neoaztlan.muxtape.com
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Part I
I grew up in Denver. Growing up, I heard references to Denver as a "cow town." Local city officials grew tired of it. A transplant from south Texas decided he would do something about it. Federico Pena ran for mayor, won, and built the crown jewel of airports in ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
After a short conversation last night about Obama, I'm convinced now more than ever that he's only a variation on a consistent theme. Now, after a trip to Afghanistan, Obama is now trying to instill confidence in the constituency that considered his foreign relations experience nil. In a bid to ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
One Day As A Lion featuring Zack de la Rocha and Mars Volta's Jon Theodore release their debut record July 22. De la Rocha returns as strong as ever complemented by Theodore's crazy energy.
One Day has a single on their MySpace page.
Oh, and since the major media outlets aren't doing ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Don't remember who turned me on to a restaurant in NYC called Florencia 13. Haven't actually been there, but it's a "Chicano" restaurant on Sullivan between Bleecker and Houston in the Village.
[I put Chicano in quotes because I haven't been there yet and I have a fairly rigid definition ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - On the heels of AT&T's announcement last week that it is relocating its headquarters from San Antonio to "The Big D," as they idiotically like to call it here, Toyota today announced that they will shutter the brand spanking new production plant in San Antonio that went ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Sometimes it's good to step back and look at yourself from the outside. Been doing a lot of it myself lately in the form of therapy. Did some of it last weekend while on a weekend trip to Portland when I decided to escape myself for a little while and ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Some little redhead teenage cracker punk crossed the line today when he posted my son's personal (ergo MY personal information) on some forum for PSP nerds.
I've got all I need on my local machine and have already begun the process of reporting it as a denial of service attack. The ...
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