Mark Fiore animation: Whoopsi Gras II

Check it out here.  The Carnival of Ineptitude, a whole year later.

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OMG

Libeskind’s proposal for Civic Center Park, presented in slideshow fashion by the Rocky Mtn News. (There’s an ad first, then the slides.) Lord almighty, the mind boggles. HT to my friend George. I think.
Per the Denver Post story, “The plan is only a model meant to ‘ignite and inspire public comment,’ Denver [...]

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Who’s (Hu`s) On First

Long but funny in an awfully realistic way. Below the fold.

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Remember

August 29, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina veered a little to the east of New Orleans and devastated the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. Unimaginable devastation. One year ago today.
And then the New Orleans levees failed catastrophically, drowning a major American city. (I’ve edited this to clarify that 8/29 was the storm, the worst came later when [...]

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You’re from Denver

(HT to my friend George.) You know you’re from Denver when . . .

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Updates about legal temping and other angst

A recent commenter to my recent post about the world of legal temping and law school grads trying to get a foot on the career ladder, here, says:
Tom the Temp’s blog is exaggerated. Some temp assignments pay as much as $40-50/hr sometimes more depending on experience. . . . Tom the Temp just blogs about [...]

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Gomer Pyle moment

In the immortal words Gomer would utter on Andy Griffith’s old TV series:  “Well, suh-prize, suh-prize.”
Not.
The Boulder DA, really caught between a rock and a hard place on the JBRamsey case when a creepy-to-the-max obvious pedophile confessed to a CU instructor, chose the aggressive route of hauling his sorry ass back from Thailand before the [...]

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Rosy Perfection Salad

I am NOT making this up. Wendy McClure has found some Weight Watchers recipe cards from the 1970’s and posted them here for our entertainment. Including Rosy Perfection Salad. I’ve just clicked through a few of these hummers. Totally strange-looking food.

EDITED to add the recipe, courtesy of Channel Guide:
Rosy Perfection [...]

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The 9/11 Report – Graphic adaptation – Online

Slate is publishing an online version of the new book The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, by Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colon.
HT to Matthew at Bad Language.
EDITED on 8/29 to add:  I clicked through a lot of the first chapter.  It’s really a comic book adapation.  Well done technically, I suppose, but the “WHOOMP!” and [...]

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Bank Holiday

For those who aren’t quite sure what a bank holiday in England really is, Matthew at Bad Language explains in two pithy lines. Now I get it.

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Noted while roaming the blawgosphere

I’ve been enjoying the daily cartoons and life news posted by “Moral Turpitude” over at by the seat of my skirt.
MT’s friend who blogs as SolteraConQueso has attitude to spare and a lively knack for writing. She’s having chemo and keeping us informed on how she’s doing. And she’s doing it with syle.
Basquette [...]

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Civic Center, again

Big vote of thanks to Joanne Ditmer, whose column in today’s Denver Post spotlights the ongoing story of the inevitable hijacking by moneyed egotists of donor-funded redevelopment plans for Denver’s civic crown jewel, Civic Center Park. Ditmer urges the public to “make noise” about this.
Yes indeed.

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Saint George of Airport Security

Huge HT to Tom Bozzon, blogging at Marginal Utility, for this one. He snapped this picture while in Reagan National Airport in D.C. of
“one lovely bit of 9/11 kitsch, hidden in an alcove off a now lightly used corridor between the old National Airport terminal and the newer barn from which NWA operates. . [...]

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Moving blues

This past weekend I helped a friend move some things from her home of 25+ years to her newly purchased condo.Things weren’t going well for her.  She had the condo almost totally gutted  and renovated, and the work was behind schedule – with moving day set for Monday, also the day for closing the sale [...]

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A glimpse of good things

The blogosphere exposes me to lots of ideas from lots of people. Some of those people sound like right jerks, people I’d walk around a long block to avoid.
Then there are other folks whose blogs reveal them to be thoughtful, funny, interesting – in other words, someone I’d enjoy talking with over a cup [...]

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Notes about the transition to WordPress

Importing my Blogger blog content was a snap.
I found the images I’d uploaded to Blogger have tended to disappear from their published posts here on WP. But they are linked, and when I click on “edit” and then “save” they sort of reconstitute themselves and reappear in the post.
However, this evening I experimented with [...]

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Well, this is nice!

I’m not being sarcastic. This is WONDERFUL. WordPress, I mean!
It’s free. And it was but the work of a moment to move my whole dang blog over here. Pictures and all.
But I just started one on Typepad too. Also moved my whole blog there but all the pics didn’t transfer [...]

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Blogging, rebuilding, healing

Dr. Hebert has announced the Katrina Blog Project. It sounds intriguing to say the least. Each person affected by Hurricane Katrina posts a blog entry daily on what they were doing exactly one year earlier. Starting with their last “normal’ day before the storm, probably August 28 or thereabouts. And continuing [...]

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The JonBenet case redux – ugh

The media circus:  obscene.
The feeling it gives me:  unclean.
The “confessor:”  insane.
The pundits: inane
But they greedily rake in the green.

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Adios, Blogger

I’m outta here.
I’ve rummaged around The Condo, boxed up all the posts and comments and pics that I could round up this evening, and moved it all over to Typepad.
And now, as of August 22, I’ve also moved everything to WordPress. We’ll see which prevails!

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Show him the money – and hand it over

From today’s Denver Post, this story by reporter Joel Grostephan. A Lakewood (Denver ‘burb) lawyer is suing CBS and other corporate proprietors of sports fantasy leagues, claiming they are illegal because they are games of chance (gambling), not games of skill. The suit, sez the paper, has been filed in federal court in [...]

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A mob at the bottom of the ladder

… and each one carrying tens of thousands of dollars in undischargable student debt.
They are law school grads. I don’t have the figures at my fingertips but for years now, I’ve read that the nation’s law schools keep pumping out JD degrees in numbers way larger than the market demand. Many more newly minted JD’s [...]

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Priceless, real, and so damned funny

An unnamed Alabama lawyer who blawgs as the PhilosophicaLawyer has this utterly wonderful posting, titled “Reality and You,” on her blog. I can’t resisting quoting most of it here.   She writes:
I deal with a lot of people who just don’t seem to get how the world works. These are some of the things I would like to [...]

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Eeeuww!

Your purse could be making you sick. Really. Hundreds of thousands of bacteria all over it, especially on the bottom. Think of all the floors it’s been set down on.
Now, it would have been helpful of ABC News to explain not only how gross and unsanitary our handbags can get, but [...]

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