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FL-09: Roll over, play dead

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Dear Rep. Gus Bilirakis:
Congratulations! From the looks of things, Democrats have once again conceded your home base of Palm Harbor and Pinellas County. During this primary season, I have gotten more mailers (2) from you than from the three Democratic primary challengers (none). No signage was put up, no canvasing took place, [...]

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Zoinks!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

So I travel to an old Links page on the Stonegauge while doing a cleanup in aisle three (just ordering things, changing others around, etc). This links page hadn’t been changed since well before I switched the site to MT and then, ultimately, Wordpress.
And what do I find but a gem of [...]

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A fifth of Entourage

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

(editors note, a lot of the questions that I have still remain unanswered from last season. I gotta wonder if they will be covered this time around. Some of those questions are re-hashed here)
Lets Blog it Out! went ahead and reported several weeks ago (to much rejoicing from this writer) that Entourage, season [...]

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Fay-zed out

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

OK, it was cute leading up to the week how worked up people were getting about the storm. It was a tad annoying being told Armageddon was upon us and we had to be prepared, but it was cute in it’s anxiety breeding ways.
But here we are, Friday, and Fay still hasn’t left the [...]

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I’ll give Fay this…

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I’ll give the ongoing weather caused by Tropical Annoyance Storm Fay this credit: It paints one damn beautiful picture…

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going to “wars”

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

I’ve got a few minutes here while waitng for technical support to get back to me on a plugin issue with some software, so I’m doing my normal Wednesday web-surfing rounds while I wait and I come across the always enjoyable Penny Arcade (10 years of Tycho and Gabe! All rejoice!) and their latest [...]

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Creatively loaf your way and vote for the Best of the Bay

Monday, August 18th, 2008

If you’re a Tampa Bay area resident, you might want to partake in Creative Loafing’s annual “Best of the Bay” awards before voting ends on Wednesday. It gives you the opportunity to vote on best restaurants, best clubs, best TV personalities… worst politicians, favorite players for the three Major League sports teams in [...]

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Dice it up

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Anyone tried Dicewars yet? Strategy! Flash! Dice!

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Uninspiring: Let Me In

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

It’s been a long time since I wrote anything rhyme-based. In fact, despite all the hurt and emptiness — I haven’t been inspired to write shit. Usually the hurt, the pain, the anguish, the longing… It all drives me to write. It (or usually the source of everything inside) becomes a [...]

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They’re not even trying any more

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Anyone else getting hit with massive amounts of spam labeled “CNN.com Top 10″ or some such? How about being blasted the last 12 hours with another Phishing attempt from someone posing as MSNBC?
Let me first make this clear — you don’t have to be signed up for either site for these malicious emails [...]

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