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Phone charger - check
Underwear - check
Esquire magazine - check
Massive 10-gallon tanks of
‘discounted’ Virginia gasoline for California rental car - check

— and that concludes the entire list of items to bring to the Golden-Governator State, for a very-extended Labor Day Weekend.
Oh California, home to a countless number of celebrities, including the recently acquitted [...]

CBGBS FOREVER” THE WORLD UNITES IN HOPE OF SAVING LEGENDARY CLUB
www.savecbgb.org
Washington Square Park , NYC AUGUST 31
Today, on the last day of CBGBs current lease, legendary musician and actor Steven Van Zandt along with CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, will host an unprecedented rally in Washington Square Park to “Save CBGB.” This event, which will [...]

No.. that’s not really funny. Too soon.
Kinda like when Gilbert Godfried made a joke that he had to catch his plane to LA with a layover at the Empire State Building a few weeks after 9/11…
..kinda funny now, tho.
The scope of the damage in Louisiana and surrounding areas is way way scary. With massive [...]

Rumors are circling loudly in geekdom about Apple’s new cellphone co-developed with Motorola set to launch in ‘Frisco on September 7 — to combine the features of an iPod with a cellphone… (kinda like the Sony/Ericcson thing I showed a week or so ago, but more ‘iPod/Appley’)
…a source from someone involved with making the commercials [...]

roscoe barnes

Originally uploaded by zigs.

So there was this story here in Virginia (Culpeper) about a girl that was running to catch her bus for her first day of school — fell in front of the schoolbus and the bus ran over her — very sad [...]

Photo by Irene Roxanne Tejaratchi.

here’s a great pic from a fellow flickr user — a commentary on the NYPD/Mayor’s office messing with the event that was initially shut down for ‘promoting’ street art.

still needing a generator

Originally uploaded by ratterrell.

this pic comes from ratterrell from flickr — this was the scene on Sat. night at Home Depot in Baton Rouge, LA as Katrina nears .. with 150-200 people waiting in line for generators ..after the store had sold [...]

Kathy with Buddy Bear — 1970s

Originally uploaded by zigs.

My sister Kathy, celebrates her first birthday today with a child — a baby-boy is a tough birthday present to beat…. you really can’t top that with like a set of knives or a certificate to Amazon.
I [...]

Last night after a bellyful of baja-burrito-ultimo, I finally saw the one-joke docu-comedy “The Aristocrats”. Highlights included Sarah Silverman’s telling of the joke and a mime’s interpretation — an elderly couple left after about 20 minutes — that was pretty funny, too.
One funny part included Robin Williams and Drew Carrey telling a similarly funny [...]

Sirius S50

Originally uploaded by zigs.

I’ve been debating making the jump to pay-to-listen-radio on Sirius with Howard Stern when he arrives in Jan., and if I DO make the jump — what kind of Sirius radio would I get… (or at least ask Santa for Christmas) [...]