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I feel like Ralphy in Christmas Story.%uFFFD Obligated to write a theme in hopes of giving my 3 grade teacher an orgasm that will translate into me getting what I really want for Christmas.--- Here is the hard part.%uFFFD I can't think of a single thing that I'm thankful for and that causes me great mental grief because compared to what I see on the news every night I have more than most of the world.%uFFFD All I see is our service men and women dodging bullets and IED's to stay alive another day so they can help these people who live in mud huts%uFFFDthat keep killing Americans.%uFFFD It has been 8 years since we invaded Afghanistan.
The real winners in Real Salt Lake's championship are the fans.--- Thankfully, the statewide love for RSL's championship has been very impressive, rivaling even David Archulta.
As
media advances, so do the forms, and comic books are finding
themselves in a strange period of adapting their material to both the
internet age while still catering to those who wish to have a
physical copy. Putting themselves at a bit of a crossroads as to what
to do from here.
Well-deserved chuckles are still reverberating in response to last week's double entendre by state Sen. Chris Buttars in Max Roth's interview for Fox 13 -- to wit:
I meet with the gays here and there; they were at my house two weeks ago. I -- I don't mind gays, but I don't want 'em stuffin' it down my throat all the time, and certainly in my kids' face.
Tonight, a group of local musicians, including members of Tolchock Trio and The Rubes, will re-create their Nov. 13 after-midnight performance of Terry Riley's semi-aleatoric musical piece "In C." The artists debuted the piece at Captain Captain Studios as part of an open house in a surprisingly engaging display of modern ingenuity.--- I assumed that watching a bunch of dudes fiddle with their laptops for 30-plus minutes would be boring at best. Not so.
"LZ", the PETA member who allegedly documented animal abuses at some U of U animal-research labs, has been labeled a "spy" in the Trib. The term is certainly punchier than those unwieldy value-neutral terms such as "undercover investigator" -- but "spy" does carry some rather negative connotations, and may imply bias where none is necessarily intended.
Whether Utah's ready or not, Season 4 of HBO's polygamistastic Big Love begins Sunday, Jan. 10 with plenty of questions to answer: Is Roman dead? Will Bill really launch is own offshoot Mormon-adjacent religion?
