Well, election day is upon us again. Seems like only yesterday when in reality it was 7 long months ago that we last did this. So this is your open thread for election day: post your funny overheard comments, any frustrations & confusions, police-state shenanigans, etc.
Any wacky activity at your polling place?
If you haven’t had a chance to check out Nick Brunner’s show “Off-Air” on Capital Public Radio, you really should. Nick does a great job of putting together quality music, live in-studio performances, and wit and wisdom rarely seen on midweek NPR programming.
I might recommend also, that you tune-in to this week’s rather outstanding show since it features one of my favorite bands, my band, The FreeBadge Serenaders. If you are a fan of a) depression-era ditties, b) household implements put into service as musical instruments, and c) gratuitous references to Keith Lowell Jensen (where ya’ been KLJ?) then this is the broadcast for you. In addition you can catch tracks from bands with beards like “Broken Social Scene” and “LCD Soundsystem.”
Click. Listen. Enjoy. Sassafras.
Craft beer lovers rejoice, as you have several opportunities to try great beers ranging from local favorites, NorCal stalwarts and examples from around the world at the Raley Field Brewfest on Friday evening, the West Coast Brew Fest on Saturday and the Shriners Hospital Cyclebration Saturday evening.
The Raley Field Brewfest is hosted by the Northern California Brewers Guild and benefits the California Small Brewers Association. Almost 40 brewers from across Northern California will serve up their best beers in their annual celebration of California’s brewing history. I am particularly excited to see how an evening brewfest will do as the weather promises to be perfect. Music from Utz and the Shuttlecocks and Private Criminals. VIPs enter at 6pm, general public at 7pm. If you want to avoid the Ticketbastard charges for advance tickets, click here and enter code “RB”.
Continue reading “Three beer fests this weekend”
(Paging SinghCity…) The latest car-v-building incident has all the same details you’ve come to expect from this type of story: a car, a building, the moving one crashes into the stationary one. But this one has a twist… it was the driver’s fault! From KCRA.com:
Most of the time, the convenience store has it coming, what with all that delicious junk food just sitting there for the crashing.
I was looking for a photo of the mural at the K Street Tower Records to show somebody, and I came across this: K Street Mall: Past, Present and Future. It is a one-post blog about K Street Mall, started and (hopefully not) abandoned by an anonymous K Street Mall superfan. That is all.
I am a wanted man.
I am a fugitive from Sacramento County. Lock your doors and keep your children close. There is a warrant out for my arrest. Clearly, I am a threat to the community.
No, I’m not making this up.
I truly love this city, and have been looking forward to blogging here about all the wonderful things Sacto has to offer. Then $#!+ like this happens, and all I want to do is move back to Paris and live out my days as an itinerant street musician…
Click through to see a disgusting photo I took on the bus yesterday. You’ve been warned.
It’s always fun to write about friends, and three fellow bloggers and friends and well-worth writing about right about now with Passover upon us. Friend of the ‘Rag Melody Elliot-Koontz (aka Melly), Eileen Makishima Thornton, and Shankari Easwaran, have been working their way for the last few months through the recipes of Marlena Spieler, a Sacramento native and world-renowned cookbook author. Specifically, they’ve been working on recipes from Spieler’s Jewish Cooking, a collection of over 100 Jewish recipes from all over the world.
They’ve been featured in the Bee, on the local networks, and the recipes have been used recently at the Oak Cafe at ARC. The whole project, called “Sundays With Marlena,” has not only highlighted the diversity and overall yumminess of Jewish food, but also the diversity and overall awesomeness in Sacramento. The local media have eaten up the diversity angle, what with folks whose ancestors came from India, and Japan, and England, getting together to cook Jewish food. But hey, why not? This is Sacramento after all, the self-proclaimed (and demographically backed-up) most diverse city in America. I just find it funny since I’m either too much a Sacramentan or too naive to have noticed the whole diversity angle in the first place. I just heard about my friends Melly and Shankari and Eileen getting together to cook great food and though, “Cool. Yummy.” Continue reading “Need Help With Your Passover Feast? Just Ask 3 Local Bloggers”
Apropos of nothing save the topic of it being Friday, I liked this lone and rather shapely evergreen (redwood, I believe?) standing strong in the rear of a business complex, competing with a satellite dish. Kicking its non-coniferous ass, I would say. Okay, this was also apropos of endowing non-bipedal things with the ability to “kick ass” twice this week.
(Forgive the crappy cellphone camera.)
You know you want to. Don’t hesitate any longer! Start making that dirty, dirty dirt! You know what I’m talking about. That’s right, baby. That thing that makes every girl smile: COMPOSTING!
Making dirt ain’t easy. You can’t just throw your scraps in a pile out your back door (unless you love rats). Indeed, there’s a science to the madness. It’s not rocket science, but an art nonetheless.Â
Never fear! Help is near. Attend one of the following seminars, brought to you by the sexy City of Sacramento Department of Utilities Solid Waste Services, and you, too, will be making sweet dirt in no time.
You will also have the opportunity Continue reading “Dirty Talk”
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