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Garden Noir
Beloved Journal garden correspondent Amy Stewart dwells on the dark and deadly side of the plant kingdom in Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities , forthcoming from Algonquin Press in May. Above: Please find the book’s chilling, creee-eeee-eepy trailer!
At Last
Last night, while many in Humboldt were out partying to celebrate the swearing in of our new prez, I stayed home with my wife Amy to watch the Inauguration Balls on TV, on MSNBC to be exact. Amy imagined we might see some of the top-flight bands playing, but that wasn’t what MSNBC offered. While […]
The Triad of Death!!!
Massive hat tip to Eureka’s Tom Fredrickson, he of ” Old Glory Radio ,” for bestowing such an awesome handle upon the Journal: We’re in good company. Tom gets a kick out of playing the square, but he’s not really suited for the part. Watch the video and note the goofy, zonked-out grin that wants […]
Farewell kiss
You too, can throw a shoe. from the Washington Post : “This is a farewell kiss!” the man, identified as Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter with the Cairo-based network Al Baghdadia Television, yelled as he threw the shoes… Zaidi started to yell “Dog, dog!” as he was surrounded by security agents, who tackled him to the […]
A love story
Thanks to Slate (via BoingBoing ) for pointing out this TV ad for a bank, with what Humboldters will recognize as a familiar story, at least until the ending. As Slate’s John Swansburg points out, Joanna Newsom provides the soundtrack song. I can’t say I understand what it all has to do with banking, but […]
Hotcha Papa!
Starkewolf: Naughty Just in from the Sac Bee’s Capitol Alert! Breathy GOP robo-call says Thompson’s been a ‘bad boy’ Voters across California’s first congressional district picked up the phone this weekend to hear a breathy woman intone that “Mike Thompson’s been a bad boy.” With a seductive voice more suited to an escort service than […]
correction Amy/Lila – start time 6:30 p.m.
Amy Stewart / Lila Nelson Due to a data input error, today’s Journal has an incorrect start time for Friday’s Amy Stewart reading at College of the Redwoods. Songstresss Lila Nelson will sing starting at 6:30 p.m. before Stewart reads. Here’s the full press release: CR’s Visiting Writers Series presents New York Times best-selling local […]
Bigfoot Daze
We got a note today from our friend Richard at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau : If yer looking for something to blog today, I wanted to share something that might be fun, given that this weekend is Bigfoot Days and that 2008 is the so-called Year of the Bigfoot (he turns 50 […]