She used to be so happy and a go getter, who was always smiling and willing to go the extra mile for a good time. Now she seems so unhappy and miserable with her life, and that I always seem to bring her down. No matter what, I cannot make her happy. If I do one thing, well you didn't do this, and t...

In today's issue of the increasingly anorexic Weekly (now only 44 pages!), the ad for the Snoqualmie Casino shows that En Vogue will be playing their ballroom on January 17th. The day after Wilson Phillips, of course. In looking at the photos for the two bands, it's hard to tell if these are even th...

36 proposals in 107 pages pretty much guarantees none of them will pass.  Worse, the Legislature will cherry pick one or two of the more innocuous points, and claim "we've adopted some of the Governor's ethics reforms and thank the Governor and the Task Force for their hard work&q...

Cd 1 01 - The Harry J All Stars - Liquidator02 - The Crystalites - James Ray03 - The Hippy Boys - Capo04 - Lynn Taitt & The Jets - Napoleon Solo05 - Joe Gibbs & The Love Generation - Fat Dog06 - Baba Brooks - One Eyed Giant07 - The G.G. All Stars - Champion08 - Herman Marquis - Tom's Version...

As you read this, your fearless leader is somewhere above flyover country, on her way to the land of casinos, convention centers, and pornstars. It's that time again: the Adult Entertainment Expo is upon us! For the next few days, two members of Team Fleshbot (or as we like to call ourselves, Lux an...

It's my first day back to work, and as every single finance director in a bank in the entire world is looking down the back of the couch for change to prop up the balance sheet, there isn't a lot happening, and that's about normal.  I ended up on Word Smith, a site that will make a...

Ping-pong. Drinking beer. Two ancient rituals that have found perfect union in the sport of beer pong. Las Vegas hosted the fourth annual World Series of Beer Pong Jan. 1-5 at the Flamingo hotel-casino, and CityBlog was there to capture the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and what [...]...

Een asceet in de traditie van de oudheid is iemand die afziet, volgens Van Dale ‘iemand die zich aan vrome boetedoening wijdt.’ Een nieuwe asceet is in mijn optiek iemand die zijn handen van het publieke domein heeft getrokken en zich heeft los geworsteld van de massahysterie, maar dit alles wel...

[Dave Birch] The economist John Kay wrote an excellent, excellent piece in Prospect magazine at the turn of the year. In it, he says, amongst other things, that The modern financial services industry is a casino attached to a utility. The utility is the payment system, which enables individuals and ...

I’m allergic to smoke. By allergic, I don’t mean that it simply bothers me. I mean, if exposed to smoke my lungs and throat swell shut. I have to literally take steroids to breath freely (after getting the hell away from the smoke obviously), and a ton of anti-histamines to keep my nose ...