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• finished baking brown butter c…

  —codebitch.org

  finished baking brown butter cherry bars. cooked a ton of veggies and chix sausage for pasta salad for party tomorrow. bed now.

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
  by sarita

• Skeletor Shows He-Man How To Rock

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  Big up for Topless Robot for putting me onto this. When It came to Masters of the Universe I was always a big fan of Skeletor and his band of baddies. Shit, I‘ve got Skeletor and Panthor on the desk in my office right now! [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:32pm EDT
  

• Happy 4th to you & yours.

  —Ice Cream Diaries

  
  July 4th tends to feel a bit anti-climactic here in the fireworks capital of the Pioneer Valley. Easthampton's fireworks extraganza is always held the weekend before the fourth, which is great because it generally conflicts with no other events or anyone else's fireworks, and people [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 5:28pm EDT
  by Jim Ingram

• PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009)

  —The Moviezzz Blog

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  PUBLIC ENEMIES is a collection of scenes concerning a character named John Dillinger, edited together. The total running time of all these scenes is two hours and fifteen minutes.
  
  To call this a film isn’t really fair. There is no narrative drive. There is [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
  by Moviezzz

• Radio Spends Fifteen Days in European Exile

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Exile—known as one half of Emanon alongside emcee/singer Aloe Blacc and for producing Blu's breakthrough ‘Below the Heavens...’ LP—is embarking on a European tour this weekend.
  
  He's bringing frequent collaborator, Palm Springs, California-born DJ, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• Northampton Courthouse Porch

  —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

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  Watch your step!
  
  
  
  Center view.
  
  
  
  Right view.
  
  
  
  Left view.
  
  
  
  Globe and doves at the Haymarket Cafe.
  
  
  
  Strange flag on a [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
  by Tommy

• pondering making cherry brown …

  —codebitch.org

  pondering making cherry brown butter bars for the party tomorrow in addition to other yummies @smittenkitchen [tinyurl.com]

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
  by sarita

• mmMMmMm bueno!

  —codebitch.org

  mmMMmMm bueno!

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
  by sarita

• Dreamwalkers

  —Radio Free Earth

  I just came across this documentary featuring the late Sufi writer Idries Shah. "Dreamwalkers" covers such topics as conditioning, unconscious brainwashing, the function of ritual in society, the human nutritional need for attention, how we learn, confined thinking, and the stories of Mulla Nasrudin. (It is split into 10 parts [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
  by Ben Wachtel

• Special Permit As Issued to Kohl Construction for North Street Condos

  —North Street Neighborhood Association

  Here is the special permit issued by the Planning Board in June to Tofino Associates/Northern Avenue Homes/Kohl Construction to build 20 condo units off North Street. Kohl still needs approval from the Conservation Commission (July 23 hearing expected) as well as a resolution to a lawsuit in Land Court [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
  by NorthAssocAdmin

• The Notorious B.L.O.C. “One More Chance”

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  It's been less than a year since Bloc Party released their last full-length album ‘Intimacy,’ but they‘re already releasing new, non-LP music, namely the House-y new single “One More Chance!”
  
  
  
  The Jacknife Lee-produced “One More Chance,” which will presumably be on Bloc Party’s as yet [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
  

• City Councilors Michael Bardsley and Marianne LaBarge Seek a Non-Binding Public Vote on the Fate of the Landfill

  —North Street Neighborhood Association

  This press release appeared today on the Sustain Northampton Yahoo group:
  Press Release
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  
  JULY 3, 2009
  
  On Thursday, July 2, 2009, At Large City Councilor Michael Bardsley and Ward Six City Councilor Marianne LaBarge submitted an Order to be place[d] on the agenda of the meeting of the Nothampton City [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
  by NorthAssocAdmin

• From Solmaz, A Little Iranian Humor

  —Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading

  
  It's great to be back to my beloved cafe and to GoNOMAD. I got a message on Facebook from another Iranian friend named Solmaz who I met while I was there. She has no qualms about posting controversial pro-revolution materials, as indicated by this cartoon [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:56am EDT
  by Max Hartshorne

• Two new songs

  —The Living Rockumentary of School for the Dead

  I recently recorded a handful of new snogs of mine and uploaded two of them to the myspace page here, if you're interested:
  
  Snogs' [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:19am EDT
  by antwes

• BRIEF DVD REVIEW: TOKYO (2008)

  —The Moviezzz Blog

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  TOKYO is the latest attempt at the “Anthology Film”, a grouping of related short films by various major directors. Big in the 1960’s (PARIS BY SIX, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD), I don’t know why the genre died out.
  
  What would you rather see, a [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:00am EDT
  by Moviezzz