Saturday, November 10, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Saturday
Strawberry Shortcake and myself went down to the Mews to see the By the Beard of Zeus/Skin of Earth/WOTMC/Taciturn show. After playing "turd polisher" (sound duder) for several years, I'm finally to the point where where I want to go see shows again...this was a good'un. Snakehead wooed the ladies (scribe's woman included) as the sax player for By the Beard of Zeus, and then dropped bombs as the bass player for Taciturn. A word to the wise; if you go to the StarBar on Ingersoll, please refrain from tipping the bald man of color who bar tends there(see final pic). The highcourt of "T" has found him guilty of several counts of "douchebaggery", with a se
ntence to be carried out forthwith. Long story, short...fuck that guy.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Spooks.
Woman's Halloween display called racist
By ABBY SIMONSREGISTER STAFF WRITER
October 11, 2007
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Marcie Brightwell of Des Moines figured that if any part of her annual Halloween yard display drew a complaint this year, it would be the bloody guillotine with the life-size decapitated “victim.”
That or the body with the exposed guts that looked as if it had been torn in half by a lawn mower.
But it was a dummy hanging from a noose that raised the ire of a Des Moines school bus driver who saw Brightwell’s display as she shuttled children to school Thursday.
“To me, it’s disturbing. To me, it’s racist,” said Marilyn Hawkins, who is black. “With all the racial tension going on, why would you have a noose around a dummy’s neck hanging out of a tree? I know it’s a Halloween thing, but still, what kind of message are you sending to the kids out there?”
Brightwell, 53, has decorated her east-side lawn with gory success for the past 21 years. Hers has become a favorite stop for neighborhood trick-or-treaters.
“We had wanted to do the hangman for quite awhile, and this is the first time we could do it,” she said. “I’m not out to offend anybody. We were more worried about the other things, to be honest.”
The shoeless dummy, dressed in a flannel shirt and jeans, has a black-haired monster mask. There was no effort to make it look African-American, Brightwell said, adding: “It’s funny that of all the different things we’ve done, that’s the one that affects people.”
Hawkins, 56, sees nothing funny about it.
“With the Jena 6 thing that’s going on, we don’t need that stuff in Iowa, not even in Des Moines,” Hawkins said. “I think she should take it down. I think it’s very offensive.”
Six black teenagers in Jena, La., were accused of beating of a white student in December after a series of racial incidents that involved nooses hung from trees outside a high school. Black leaders have organized nationwide protests to demand that the charges be dropped.
Brightwell, whose display has been up for about a week, said she has no plan to take down the dummy, but “if it was suggested to me, I would consider it.”
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
"You know I'll never love you, but I hate to be alone"
Kurty (the guy who wrote those lyrics) is getting hitched to Lisa Loeb this Friday (10/12). Everyone should come to the reception downtown at the Performing Arts Temple Friday night and drink away their wedding budget (open bar, bitches).
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
RIP Sucker
Sunday, October 7, 2007
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