candidate. Twenty-ten is a very big year for us. It’s the Journal’s 20th anniversary. How humble are our beginnings? Two SE 30 Macs in one room in Old Town, Eureka. There were three of us then: I was in charge of editorial, Carolyn Fernandez and Rose Welsh were the production team. We didn’t have a […]
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Facebooking the Blogthing
Facebook fanatics: If this works — fingers crossed — you can now get updates from the Blogthing right there in your “friendstream,” or whatever the hell it’s called. How does it work? Just become a fan of the NCJ on our Facebook fan page. When a new post hits the Blogthing … boom! Your friendstream […]
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Media Alert
I’ll again be Keith Henty’s guest on tomorrow morning’s edition of The Jefferson Exchange, starting at 8:05 a.m. or thereabouts and blathering on for 10 or 15 minutes or so. Topic? Dunno! Keith was vague this time around. Humboldt County, I suppose. Tune in! That’s on the News & Information Service of Jefferson Public Radio […]
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The Ballot-Stuffers Arrive!
Finally! The North Coast Journal‘s “Best Of Humboldt County” Poll has acquired enough critical mass to bring in the cheaters! We don’t mean to tamp down your enthusiam, but if we catch you at this — and we will, in all likelihood — then your secondary and tertiary and centenary votes will be deleted. That […]
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Voting Begins!
… in the North Coast Journal‘s 2009 “Best Of Humboldt” Readers’ Poll! You better get up in this! Blogthing readers should take especial note of the two ultrapolitical categories in the 13 up for election: “Best Public Official” and “Best Activist.” Very early returns from the Twittosphere are showing a distinct lack of enthusiam for […]
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Life Can Hurt When …
topic. … Thad Greenson goes all-in against you twice — once when you’re holding A-K, once when you’re holding A-Q suited — and both times the impish little fucker turns out to be sitting on pocket aces. And that was my Charity Poker Shootout. You can learn your own life lessons tomorrow (4 p.m.-midnight) and […]
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Food Freedom! Laundry Liberation!
Because what could be more liberating than financial independence? Oh, sure, life and liberty and the whole pursuit of happiness thing factor in, but have you priced them lately? Well, I can’t solve your big problems – refusing to save, spending more than you earn, insisting on indulging in those optional treats like education, health […]
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Your Slice of Seven-O-Heaven
$85,500.”Your Slice of Seven-O-Heaven: The second and last weekend of North Coast Open Studios is coming up; it takes place all around the county Saturday and Sunday. And in the NCOS spirit, Andrew Goff, creator of the runaway hit “Seven-O-Heaven” cartoons that now grace every issue of the Journal, has opened up his virtual studio […]
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Amy in the NYT
Amy in the NYT: The New York Times comes out with its long-awaited profile of Humboldt County literary darling Amy Stewart! Stewart — whose new book, Wicked Plants, is a police lineup of the botanical world’s bad boys — provides the NYT writer with some advice about how to murder her husband.
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Let the Bitch-Fest Begin!
September. The surgeons are scrubbed, the scalpels are laid out neatly in a line, and northcoastjournal.com is lain out flat on the operating table, awaiting its facelift. All that is remains is to hear from you, our team of aesthetic consultants. Do you love northcoastjournal.com? Do you hate it? Do you hate some parts and […]