Music club w/ Patti Smith
l3wis [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciiCyxOJA[/youtube]
2011
17 Years and nothing has changed
Well, I will have to give Stormland TV credit on this one, they dug into the archives, and showed that not much has changed in that Arena area of town since the CC has been built. The video is great, the footage of Metli is priceless,
“The convention center will not only bring more visitors and more people into that area, but also upgrade the appearance of the existing site,” City Planner Steve Metli said in December of 1993.
Now he says building it there was a mistake. No shit Sherlock. We were spending millions downtown on building the Pavilion, why not build the CC down there to? I sometimes wonder how some of these people get in power? They keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. This is another reason why the Arena location is bad, bad, bad.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=326_NTJvaHc&feature=related[/youtube]
Blogs are not influential?
A Pavilion press conference. Wonder who came up with this splendid idea? (Argus Leader screenshot)
While I would agree partially with the Argus Leader’s managing editor Lalley’s statement – I found the statement puzzling considering I have tipped off and helped some of the journalists at his newspaper with stories. I have contributed to stories by Ellis, Hult and Kirschenmann in the past and besides one of the paper’s reporters buying me a couple shots of Patron, I have received very little credit and zero payment. Which is fine, I just think the information should be out there for the public to see, that’s why I blog, that’s why I like to contribute (The Sunday coupons are nice to, I saved $4.00 last week on soap and such).
But let’s use an example, if you watch this video you will see CEO of the Pavilion, Larry Toll talk about the Pavilion’s financials. I think it is great that the media is covering this, but it was never in the Pav’s plans to have this press conference or for them to do a presentation at the city council’s informational meeting.
It was a little chiding from me (behind the scenes) and with the help of some city officials, the Pavilion conceded to release their financials to the public in a public forum (instead of just posting them on the internets in an annual report).
Are blogs influential? Pat doesn’t think they are, yet he continues to blog about his bike rides. As Cory (Madville Times) said to me in an email about this topic;
Perhaps the Argus could adopt a more Zen approach… or maybe a judo approach: instead of fighting us or rejecting us, accept us as one more source, acknowledge us, use our own momentum to make themselves stronger.
Snooki Noem “Why is everyone always picking on me and my fellow freshmen?” (H/T – Helga)
Here is the video of the cryfest, here is the letter.
“We ask that you stand above partisanship, condemn the disingenuous attacks and work this this Congress to reform spending.”
“As new members of Congress, we are committed to having a fact-based conversation immediately.”
Jon Stewart slams FOX in a rap (H/T – Helga)
Stewart pointed to the hypocrisy of Fox News pundits going after Common, but not artists like Johnny Cash, who was honored by President George W. Bush and who also has penned a violent lyric or two in his day, and Ted Nugent, who has made violent remarks about Obama and Hillary Clinton, yet is considered a “friend†by Hannity.