so, today i decided to go for nice afternoon walk to watch it get dark and work off some of that holiday bojangles and chic-fil-a sloth puff. i ended up at fremont street right about when it got dark and to my surprise the whole of the fremont street experience was caution-taped off. i heard a police officer say something about a “suspicious package” and then heard tourists and other street folk murmur the words “bomb threat”. i really wanted to just drink a huge football beer in the middle of the experience all by myself while everyone watched. but instead i got some coffee and walked home. didn’t hear any distant kabooms. nothing on the news yet.


but there’s a pawn shop on las vegas blvd north that has muppets in space and two cky dvds for a dollar each. that’s da bomb!

diesel is making big deal out its 30th birhtday (“dirty 30″, they’re calling it) and have been hyping up the worldwide parties that its owner will host (and travel to each of) for a while now. the final party will be in new york and pitchfork confirms the line-up of MIA, hot chip, and N.E.R.D.

sound fun, huh? too bad most diesel retail workers won’t be there. a few of my fellow long-time diesel employees from las vegas were planning on travelling to new york either specifically for the party or would just happen to be in town during the event. now they’re being told they probably won’t be able to get in. diesel’s first statement to employees – along the lines of “just get to new york, we’ll make sure you get in” – has now turned into “sorry…”, with the RSVP list now closed before it’s original deadline. so, to all of the diesel retail family who have worked the floors, folded infinite piles, put in years of time, and might be able to make it to your employer’s biggest party ever: too bad. there are sober celebrities who need those peronis. stupid wannabes.

i have to say this is pretty damn funny though.

UPDATE: karoline, matt and todd, ramie, joie, and a lot of other people are at the party now. so, um, sorry for being a bitter little brat that’s really just jealous i’m not there. i really did want to go to your stupid awesome party. maybe i’ll show up for “filthy 50″ or something.

submit art for Take Back the Night, our annual rally against domestic violence at UNLV.

sorry. more soon. news is too depressing to post.

three teenage beavis and butthead delinquent types in texas are being accused of diggin up a corpse in a graveyard and smoking pot out of the skull. which they removed with a garden tool. i know extreme destruction is supposed to be super cool and make you tuff and all but i thought stoners were too lazy and mellow, man, to go, like, through all that trouble and whatever. somebody’s been watching too much metalocalypse. i take that back, you can never watch too much metalocalypse.

fucking gross! it better have lizard people in it.

i love stories that are their own punch lines! nevada’s governor, jim gibbons, is divorcing his wife but he has already moved out of the governor’s mansion in carson city. she is still living there and he’s taking legal action to get her removed so he can go “home”. to quote this article from the elko daily free press, gibbons “…returned to the couple’s modest, four-bedroom house about 25 miles away in Reno, which is appropriate, given the way Nevada turned the phrase “I’m going to Reno!” into a 1940s euphemism for divorce.”

kleenex/lilliput – die matrosen

things your tax money could be spent on this week…
Federal Aviation Administration, budget 2008-2011 = S.1300 H.R. 2881$154.17 per person
Genetic information; prohibit discrimination with respect to health insurance and employment = S.358 H.R.493 THIS WILL COST YOU NOTHING!
Farm bill, extend through 2012 = H.R.2419 at $1,823.97 it’s a doozy!

i remember hearing an interview anthony robbins did with paul pilzer about economic alchemy in which paul basically said that technology pulls new resources out of thin air, usually at a time when the old resources are drying up or are sorely needed. this is great news.

for instance: i saw this article on msnbc.com today about handheld medical image scanners being coupled with cellphones to perform x-rays and ultrasounds.

and senators’ offices actually answer questions! we called it right though, Mr. Reid voted no on equal pay as a ‘procedural method’