Circumnavigate the pole

Maypole dancers
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This was pole dancing in my day

Today’s LivingSocial deal offers up “Four Hour-Long Pole Dancing Classes ($20) or One Pole Dancing Party for Up to Ten People ($100).” Which comes with a witty description, of course.

But there’s one pole you’ve yet to explore: the dancin’ pole. Build strength and confidence as you circumnavigate the pole with four classes for $20 (regularly $40) at Sacramento Pole Dance Studio. You’ll tone your core, arms, glutes, and legs in these hour-long sessions, and the small classes and comfortable atmosphere will get you dancing at any shape, size, or experience level. Or gather up to nine of your cronies, and discover the power of the pole together with a 90-minute pole dancing party for $100 (regularly $200). You and your gal-pals will learn some basic moves and get to wear masks and feather boas for your flirty performance. Magellan may have spent years in search of the Spice Islands, but you’ll spice up your life in no time with this deal.

I still subscribe to the Chris Rock view on pole dancing.

Sacramento “Music” Festival to Feature “Music”

So, the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society announced last week that they were changing the name of the Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee (formerly the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee) to the “Sacramento Music Festival.” My initial reaction is that this is weak and pathetic. But then I thought about it, and realized that it’s cowardly and pathetic.

When I started going to the Jubilee as a tyke, it spread all over town like a giant squid, its tentacles reaching into every crevice in Sacramento. Now it’s shrunk down to fill only Old Sacramento — which is fine as admittedly the crowd has shrunk over the decades due to the unremitting scythe of death — but in the process of shrinking, it’s losing its soul. Instead of concentrating the essence of the Jubilee, which was old-time music mixed with fried food and libations, it instead is trying to find that perfect mix of party music that will bring out the crowds and keep the whole thing afloat. And even that’s not being done convincingly. Throwing a Steely Dan cover band into the mix isn’t exactly going to bring out the masses. Continue reading “Sacramento “Music” Festival to Feature “Music””

No news is crazy news

Is it just me or the headline ticker kind of trending toward End of Days right about now? And in advance I apologize but this is all I’ve got.

RonTopofIt already brought us the mom arrested for attacking a school principal.

Girl, 10, found shot inside Rancho Cordova home

2 injured in Woodland shooting at Tony’s Bar

Suspect with knife fatally shot by Sacramento police officer

Man in hospital after shooting in Sacramento “Comments on this story were closed Aug. 28 because of inappropriate comments,” go figure.

Two men arrested after shots fired at Sacramento Bee carrier

Rabid skunk nabbed in Sacramento’s Downtown Plaza garage. It forgot to get its ticket validated after shopping at Forever 21.

And of course, Bait car stolen, Sacramento police nab 10-year-old girl. “It was a bad judgment call on her end,” said the Police Spokesman. Shouldn’t a bad judgement call about operating a car for a 10 year old girl be like, getting in the front seat while the engine is on and hasn’t her dad told her not to do that like 10 bazillion times?

Speaking of moms lunging at principals

With our mobile lifestyle, we are often presented with information that changes meaning when taken out of context. For example, we have this story on news10.net about the mom who allegedly attacked her child’s principal at a Stockton elementary school.

Pami Gibbs, a student’s mother, hit the first-year principal in the face after her son was told he either had to change the shirt he was wearing or turn it inside out because it did not conform to the school’s uniform or dress code, according to authorities. The shirt may have had skull images or something similar on it…After the mother was pulled off of the principal, she allegedly lunged toward the principal again and then fled.

The mobile version of the story ends with this sentence…

Join local moms who are talking about dress codes and clothing on MomsLikeMe.

You do not get the linking (Nice plug, News10) so you think it’s part of the story. Or at least poorly placed. What, there wasn’t a thread already on MomsLikeMe about Moms wanting to attack their child’s principal?

I have this image in my head of someone pulling the mom off the principal and things starting to calm down and then the mom getting fired up again and taking off (“lunging”) after the principal. Oh, and what’s similar to skull images?

Sac Press headline writers don’t pull punches

“Solomon-esque compromise cuts Med Center from Oak Park” was at the top of today’s report on the contentious City Council meeting about redistricting that ended with the UC Davis Med Center becoming part of District 6.

A truly Solomon-esque end to the debate would have been to split the Med Center evenly between Districts 5 and 6, but who’s counting. Put the different wings of the hospital under the purview of two different council seats, that’ll shut people up.

I’m not quite sure what I think about this. It seems like it makes much more sense to split the actual Med Center than to take the neighborhood named “Med Center.” It just seems like Elmhurst is more tied to the hospital campus. Carving the neighborhood out of District 5 did seem like a pretty bad idea. I’m not really sure why it matters that much, I never really understood that. Aren’t the districts all part of one completely broke and dysfunctional team anyway?

Watching your bobber suddenly jiggle


No word whether noodling will be allowed at this event

From sacbee.com, fishing will be free across the state on September 3rd, 2011, and in Sacramento, novice anglers can take advantage of free lessons and equipment use on the same day.

Fishing in the City gives city dwellers an opportunity to learn how to fish, and to fish close to home. Ponds are stocked with trout in winter and catfish the rest of the year.

I did enjoy the Free Fishing Days page…

Have you ever felt the excitement of watching your bobber suddenly jiggle, then dive out of sight? Or feeling the tap-tap-tap of a bass as it tastes the worm on the end of your line? Or having a salmon practically tear the rod out of your hands as it smashes your lure? What’s that? You say you never learned to fish?

They said “rod.”

Newspaper with a thing for offensive ledes

The Bee reports today on a sex offender caught preying on boys after being released from prison after serving time for a 1988 child molestation charge.

Robert Precobb, a sex offender with a thing for teenage boys, caught a big break last year when a judge ordered him freed from prison. (my emphasis)

Some guys might have “a thing for” redheads, or for Spanish-looking men, or for apple fritters, but a child molester preys on children. It’s super gross to phrase it that way and the Bee should probably change the wording.

What’s your positioning statement?

Interesting segment on News10 Good Morning today about writing a winning resume and learning how to network. I had never heard of a positioning statement and that you should practice saying this statement until you are comfortable using it. I’m not a huge fan of the idea of self-branding, but tough times call for tough measures, right?

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

I was also glad they included a resume example. The only tip I can provide here is to create a professional web email address because, really, you still have an @aol.com address, Mr. HotRod69?

With unemployment back up to 12% in California, this information is good to have.

The evil donut empire strikes back

92/365
Creative Commons Licensephoto credit: KatieUlett
The Krispy Kreme accountants reported
selling 12 of these, however.

Apparently, Roseville’s fascination with chain restaurants has clouded its judgment as a Krispy Kreme doughnut factory and store is set to open on September 20th. The management team will hold a job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23rd at the new facility located at 10317 Fairway Drive. New jobs, great. I couldn’t help but think of CoolDMZ’s post from 2005 (man, has it been that long?) talking about the closure of the store on Arden Way.

Then this tidbit from the sacbee.com story:

The company, which entered the region’s market in about 2000, closed the last of its Sacramento Valley stores in 2007 amid an accounting scandal.

Accounting scandal? I just thought they failed because it was a fast food restaurant that only sold doughnuts. Go figure. So I browsed the innernets and found a lot of information on this scandal.

Yet, in carefully nuanced language, the Krispy Kreme investigators, led by two board members, hinted at the possibility of a willful cooking of the books. “The number, nature and timing of the accounting errors strongly suggest that they resulted from an intent to manage earnings,” the report said.

Yikes. But, yeah, it’s a business opening its doors and not shutting them so more power to them. I wonder if they’ll have valet parking.

Get ready for Midtown Cocktail Week!

Midtown Cocktail Week kicked off last night with a ladies cocktail celebration at The Shady Lady and a Punch Bowl Bunco Party at Restaurant THIR13EN. Today will feature a punch bowl competition between local mixologists at Red Lotus and an an after party at Blue Cue.

Man, these people can drink.

Check out the rest of the week’s boozetacular and educational events here. I am especially looking forward to the molecular gastronomy demonstration at Lounge on 20, which Atique Rahman told me will feature a science fair to show innovations in high tech cocktails. Then you get to drink what you learned. For science!

Midtown Cocktail Week
August 15-21