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Small businesses in Tempe are under attack! Local politicians conspire with developers to build a new, "better" Tempe, landlords sell their long-owned property as the real estate value skyrockets making way for yet another Yuppie housing project, and another small business is closing up shop for good, making way for progress. By now wouldn't you ( Read more... )

1- go to Wikipedia.org2- type in the month and day of your birth (no year!!) and post one fact, one birth and one death ( Read more... )

The Smartest Guys in Sing Sing:
Former Enron Corp. chief executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling convicted of conspiracy and fraud
And the multitudes rejoiced

More conclusive proof that the Phoenix New Times is irrelevent:
It Girl
How does shit like this get published, I've seen this girl around before and she's about as interesting as any other ( Read more... )

In the last 48 hours...
*I was given two free "Platinum Passes" to Harkins Theatres, meaning you'll get in for free to any film, even a special engagement.
*Two tickets to the Ice Cube show, next Sunday, this definitely makes up for the cancelation of Prefuse 73 and Edan.
*Managed to snatch Three 6 Mafia's Most Known Unknown, and T.I.'s King used ( Read more... )

There's a lot of great hip-hop news sites on the web, allhiphop, Davey D, and hiphopsite, are weekly (sometimes daily) must reads. As far as blogs have gone, I've yet to run into anything spectacular, mostly "fuck this cat", "the new (fill in the blank) didn't deserve four mics, it's garbage" blah, blah, blah, but I try to stay away from content ( Read more... )

First there was the Ms. Deaf struck by train story, now this. Do I have a serious problem with finding news stories that make people cry. *Sigh* Anyway, here ya go:

82-year-old hospice patient fulfills dream of being farmer for a dayEating fresh-baked peach pie and vanilla ice cream at 9 a.m., Ken Swanson beamed with satisfaction from what had ( Read more... )

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

Issa's a big boy today, 23. We're going to our A meeting, kinda like an AA meeting, but one of the A's happens to be missing. You figure it out. Fine, we're having our Anonymous meeting for his b-day. No alcohol, just loads of anonymity. Ought to be fun.

An exchange between Issa and I today:
Me: Happy Birthday, now let's have lots of fun ( Read more... )

Brian Wood & Ryan Kelly's series, Local #7 will be set in Tempe, Arizona! Brian mentioned this on his LJ today, and as some of you may remember, we had Brian in town last year for a successful signing and quite a wild time on the town, as well. Very exciting news, y'all! Also: If you haven't yet, come by the shop and grab Local #1-3, they're ( Read more... )