Local firefighters catch a fire

{In an ongoing attempt to encourage visitor interactivity, the Sac Rag is introducing a new category: Make Us Laugh. From time to time we’ll post a link to a news story that we feel lends itself to humor. Your task is to review the story and submit your punchline or funny commentary. No scoffing (I can see you cynical, at work internet surfers now). Oh, and Runnergirl, please don’t review this bit. Here goes nothing. Literally…}

From kcra.com:

An alleged marijuana operation went up in smoke Monday after fire destroyed a Sacramento home. Metro Fire Department officials said the home was totally engulfed in flames when they arrived, but they were able to knock the flames down quickly. Officials said that 450 marijuana plants were found…

“Create an e-annoyance, go to jail”

Since this here site has been known to be an annoyance to some, I thought it important to post this bit of mind-numbingly disturbing news about our folks in Washington. Apparently, Congress has just passed, with the President’s signature, a new bill that makes it a crime to create anonymous Internet communications with the intent to “annoy” (among other verbs like harass). I’m not sure what disturbs me more, this news or the fact that the #1 movie over the weekend was the gratuitous torture movie “Hostel.”

A trend to expand

Yesterday’s Bee had a feature article about how it’s becoming hip to be grammatically correct. I am most pleased, as I’m sure my grammar and spelling cop brethren on the Sac Rag are too.

My wish is that this trend expands to polishing up other realms of everyday life, most notably:

1. People should cover their mouths when they yawn. Unless you’re the MGM lion, I don’t need to see it. Look around for a couple days and you’ll see exactly what I mean. It’s gross.
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Screen time for a local product

In your enjoyment of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” don’t miss the conspicuous presence of a prop with a local angle. In the book collection of Steve Carrell’s Andy character are a few shelves filled with video game strategy guides from Roseville’s Prima Games. The can’t-miss red bar on the bottom of the spine shows you you’re looking at a ginuwine Prima guide, an industry standard. I think you can see them best in the scene where Catherine Keener has broken into his apartment and accused him of being a serial killer. So before you shut off the movie at that point because all of a sudden it sucks and you can’t believe how frickin long it is, take a look at the books.

Unbelieva-bowl Prices

On Wednseday, January 18th 2006, Country Club Lanes in Sacramento is hosting the “Drive The Lanes Wth Peja, Vlade And Friends at The 4th Annual Charitabowl.” This purpose of this event, which is not easily obtained from the site, is to raise funds for Peja’s Foundation. Great, good for them. Lanes are going for $3,500 big ones and general admission (you get to watch and hang out!) is $50. With the GA ticket you get “Autograph opportunities w/select players” and “Picture opportunities w/select players.” With an emphasis on “w/select players” of course. “Hey, Mom, I got Luke Schenscher’s autograph last night!”

The reason I know about this event, you see, is that I recently enjoyed me some bowling at the CC lanes. You remember bowling, right? That favorite collegiate pastime where, for a handful of student loan doll hairs, you could consume a pitcher or two of your favorite watered down lager, hurl a 16 pound ball down a lane in an attempt to knock down neatly stacked pins, and talk about that cute girl you met in Sosh class. Well, my reader (ok, I think I am up to three), times they have a changed.
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Pimp my wedding

We all know about MTV’s TV show, Pimp My Ride, and we all know pimpin’ ain’t easy. But, pimpin’ is what’s cool, even more than snarkin’. So kudos to Rocklin’s Kristine Stone and Shaun Baland and the five kids between them, who are pimpin’ out their wedding to the highest bidders:

They’re offering to allow the highest bidders to write vows for the bride and groom, the best man’s toast and to choose the first song they will dance to as husband and wife. Bids for each offer start at $99. Winners will get a DVD of the ceremony.

If they really want to make some money, they should pimp out their honeymoon.

Eddy does you right

Need a good haircut? Have a giant unweildy pompadour that is beyond the powers of the folks at Supercuts? Enjoy swingin to that crazy beat, Daddy-o?* Then you belong at Eddy’s Deluxe, a 4 year old East Sac barbershop in the stretch of retail anchored by Sidewalk pizza. The rockabilly music is loud, the art on the walls is grotesque and varied, the small talk is enjoyable and never forced, and most importantly the haircut is top notch.

*This is really bad. Sorry.

Grass Valley’s last samurai

Something is simply not right about Grass Valley, and I’m not just talking about the drugs or their choices in pets. It also looks like some people there just don’t learn the easy way:

Thirty-two-year-old Zoltan Gergely pleaded innocent yesterday to charges he tried to assault his roommate with a camping hatchet…In the previous case, Gergely was sentenced to 300 days in jail and five years of probation last year after being convicted of attacking a woman and her boyfriend on their doorstep with a samurai sword.

You see parents, THIS is what happens when you let children think it’s alright to run around with scissors.

Wild and crazy police shooting

The wild police pursuit that ended last night with a fatal shooting of a parolee out in north county apparently happened in front of a busload of horrified high school students. According to most of the local news outfits, that is. This morning’s Bee includes a few details that will either surprise you or not, depending on your faith in the human race:

Ashley Acevedo, a 17-year-old senior, said she was sitting at the back of the bus when someone shouted, “Look at that guy running!”

“People on the bus were actually cheering for him, (saying) run, run,” Acevedo said. “He looked up at us and smiled.”

Nice work, kids! Extinction, party of 8 billion?

Sac is buff

Men’s Fitness Magazine has released their 2006 America’s Fittest Cities rankings. And, guess what? Sacramento actually made it as a top city, coming in at number 11 (though we dropped 4 points from last year). Who would have thought? Here’s what they had to say about our foyne, chiseled and ripped torso of a town:

» Sacramento residents rank in the top 10 cities for sports participation.
» The city is also in the top 10 for sporting-goods stores.
» Health food stores, golf courses and federal parks are plentiful.
» However, the number of tennis courts and basketball courts are lower than average.
» Residents have a lower-than-average risk of health problems related to being overweight.
» They also watch less TV than average.

I sit (on my sofa watching Wheel of Fortune with a bag of nachos) surprised.