Art Modell, perhaps the single most hated man in Cleveland.
Archive for September, 2012
Obit watch: September 6, 2012.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012EarthQuest watch.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012Promoted from a comment left by SoapBoxMom:
Don Allen Holbrook’s frivolous harassment suit seems to be falling apart. He has dismissed the case against the Houston Press and Craig Malisow before they even had the chance to file a response. Malisow was the linchpin for Holbrook’s entire case.
Holbrook is still pursuing the remaining parties, including the John and Jane Doe taxpayers who have commented in these matters of vital public concern. Trying to silence folks discussing where their tax dollars are going is an outrage! I don’t think he should ever receive another dime from a governmental entity ever again!
I couldn’t find a mention of Holbrook dropping his suit on the Houston Press site, but I did find this quite interesting article on Holbrook and some of his more…colorful claims. For example, Holbrook claims to have “launched the first economic development Web site in the world in 1991”. Hmmmmmmmmm.
Banana republicans watch: September 5, 2012.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012We previously mentioned the lawsuit by former police chief Randy Adams against the city of Bell over unpaid severance.
The other shoe has dropped: the city is suing Adams and wants all the money he was paid, plus “a portion of the $20 million the city estimates it lost as a result of a corruption scandal that led to the arrests of eight former civic leaders.”
Corcoran was demoted, placed on “administrative leave”, and Adams “started an investigation for insubordination”.
Meanwhile, the bankrupt city of San Bernardino is considering…cutting the city’s budget. No, really. (Edited to add: Or maybe not.)
I noticed this article yesterday, but didn’t have time to read it: Lawrence also sent me a link. Basically, police unions in California are behaving like bullies towards people who criticize them.
TMQ Watch: September 4, 2012.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012Once again, TMQ’s all-haiku predictions roll around. Let’s jump in and listen for the splash of water…
You had me at “bacon”.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012The State Fair of Texas has announced the winners of the 2012 “Big Tex Choice” awards for the best fair food this year.
The winner of the “Most Creative” award was Butch Benavides, with the “Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll”, described on the TM Daily Post site as a “cinnamon roll dipped in a special sweet pancake batter, rolled in crispy fried bacon crumbles, deep fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar.”
The winner of the “Best Taste” award was Abel Gonzalez Jr. with “Deep-Fried Jambalaya”, “jambalaya using shrimp, Cajun sausage and seasonings, then coated in lightly seasoned flour and fried”.
More from the TM Daily Post here. And here’s a link to an article from last week breaking down the eight finalists.
Almost everything that made the finals sounds good to me. I’m not a huge fan of jambalaya, but I might even try that.
Morning random notes: September 4, 2012.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012Would you pay $18 for a 40-minute vinyl record of previously unreleased Charles Manson songs?
Yeah, I wouldn’t, either.
I want to come back to this later and elaborate on the idea some, but I’m getting more than a little tired of the mass media being coy in their reporting. (See also: Russian punk bands.)
This kind of bothers me, too, but I’m not sure I can articulate why.
Headline in the NYT:
First paragraph:
Matt’s death is tragic, but a 21-year-old man who has been accepted to grad school is not a child.
(Gee, doesn’t NYC have strict gun control laws?)
I don’t think I ever saw anything Michael Clarke Duncan was in, and I wouldn’t say I was a big fan of his work. But 54 is just too young. (NYT. LAT. A/V Club.)
The Frank Lloyd Wright archive is moving to New York City. This sounds like a very good thing:
(Well, a very good thing for everyone except Mike the Musicologist, who hates NYC.)
Headline from something called “The Root”, linked from the WP site:
Random notes, September 3, 2012.
Monday, September 3rd, 2012Workers of the world, unite! Dyslexics of the world, untie!
Oh, yes. Garden and Gun. I remember them. I was considering subscribing: that is, until they refused ads from the NRA. Now they can die in a fire, as far as I am concerned.
In other news, the NYT wants you to know that you should be careful buying art online.
My big question for the day: now that Reverend Moon is dead, how long will the Washington Times be around? I’ve gotten the distinct impression that it has survived that long purely because he wanted it that way, and his successors are not as wild about the paper as he was.
Mike Nesbitt has resigned as offensive coordinator at the University of Houston. That would be two days after the season opener, which they lost 30-13 to Texas State.
I’ve been kind of tied up the past couple of days and haven’t had a chance to blog the Austin Police Department acting as agent provocateurs to Occupy Austin story. I don’t really know what to make of it, so instead I’ll refer you to the Statesman story above, and the coverage from Grits for Breakfast here. (The other problem I have with this story is that much of the coverage comes from sources I don’t read and don’t trust.)
Speaking of Grits, he also has an interesting followup on the Texas Highway Patrol Association and other similar scam organizations.