grandpaboy

• Time Out

  Senator McCain (fourth from left) takes a strategic break
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Evidently, some people are only now reorganzing their priorities, in light of the world's increasing fucked-upness*. As any reader [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 10:55pm EDT
  

• My Favorite Holiday

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  Amazing true fact: Mr. Red's bulbous head is filled with pockets of helium that allow him to defy simple physics!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Opening Day ranks with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in the first tier of hallowed days. So I'll spend a little [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2007, 9:41am EDT
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• Triple Word Score

  Lordy. Three weeks of skipping over the cheapest, funnest, warmest alternative to the SXSW. I can stand slacking off my own brand of brechtian Buckeye boarishness, but I don't want to live in a world without obscure references to the Question.
  
  
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  Posted: March 28, 2007, 11:22pm EDT
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• Babe Ruth. Still Dead.

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  Opening Day should suck a little less this year.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you're lucky, the crappy team you root for every year will spend April and May playing scrappy, getting their [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2007, 9:59pm EDT
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• Schmidt Shrieking, Covered in Sick

  
  The headlines write themselves...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Goodness knows I've been remiss in so many ways. But I'd be überremiss if I failed to point out this ray of Schadenfreude from Crooks and Liars...
  
  Meanwhile, today on the [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2007, 9:50pm EDT
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• The Weekly(ish) Non-Random Post

  "RAHR. How much Hulk drink last night?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Trapped in a world we never made! Go soak up the radioactive gamma goodness. [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2007, 2:49pm EST
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• Meet the Mayor

  Contemplating the Bill Todd candidacy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mayor Coleman invited local activists and neighborhood commissioners to a pre-State of the City meeting. He listed the challenges facing the city: inadequate infrastructures (specifically school and neighborhood sidewalks and street drainage, primarily [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2007, 9:20am EST
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• Cowtown Crisis

  "Leave me alone! I'm dead and fictional."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The weather-ninnies on our local "news" stations dished out a new slice of terror this morning - "FREEZING FOG!" Due to some undiagnosed [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2007, 12:19am EST
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• Let the Healing Begin

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  "Who rules Koaladome? Master Blaster!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Filler That Dares Not Speak Its Name. What else are you going to do - watch Anna Nicole retrospectives? [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2007, 11:12pm EST
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• Saving the Engine House

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  One of the highlights of February's Greater Hilltop Area Commission meeting (along with City Councilman Andy Ginther's visit), was the second presentation in a series of four by David Green of Design Group. As was stated at his first presentation before the GHAC zoning board, the city will [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2007, 1:11pm EST
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• That Magic Time of Month

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  The Greater Hilltop Area Commission will be meeting Tuesday, February 6, at 7pm in the Hilltop Library. Be there, or be uninvolved.
  
  As a further public service, and of more interest to all those outside of Columbus Westside, American Electric Power wants to raise your rates. GHAC chair Gary [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2007, 11:51pm EST
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• Alleged Bastard Caught

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  After five hits of ecstasy, still dumb enough to run.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Predictably, the local TV reports went with the COPS-style hide-seek-and-attempt-to-escape angle. Although it is not mentioned in the WBNS article, (or mentioned at all in the Dispatch or [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2007, 11:30pm EST
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• Ensmallening the Nation's Soul

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  After learning the D-10 tractor was NOT a Constructicon,
  
  President Bush flew into a murderous rage.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As is often the case these days, [...]
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  Posted: January 31, 2007, 1:51pm EST
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• "Bummer."

  "I'll be in Mexico 'til this thing blows over."*
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  An entire city's education system is shut down by a junkie bus driver. The horrid details are up at the newly relevant Dispatch.
  
  God knows it goes against [...]
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  Posted: January 25, 2007, 4:41pm EST
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• Two Questions

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1) Does Garth Brooks know Beckham is raiding his wardrobe?
  2) How the hell did the Preznit correctly spell 'America'?
  
  
  What better way to distract yourself from [...]
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  Posted: January 24, 2007, 9:31pm EST
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• Art for Choice's Sake

  But pro-life art is so classy!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  From my ever-popular inbox. Wait. That sounds dirty.
  
  Anyhoo, NARAL Pro Choice Ohio along with students from CCAD and The OSU will present a unique art exhibit, Stories of Our Mothers. It [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2007, 11:50pm EST
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• Fair Warning

  Didn't the Dutch rip-off our flag?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I meant to post on this earlier, but you get the blogger you pay for, not the blogger with copious amounts of free-time.
  
  After an interesting summer, the rehab [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2007, 2:26pm EST
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• Save Miss Miller!

  This one's for you, Squeezy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Clear Channel, the corporation that make Disney seem friendly, is planning to ax the success story that is 1230 AM. And they announce [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2007, 3:19pm EST
  by grandpaboy