Archive for March 21st, 2013

Earthquest update!

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Latest news, by way of our good friend Heather Dobrott (who I owe an apology, as her comment was initially marked as spam by Akismet: fortunately, I’m able to actually go through and do a more detailed review of “spam” postings, thanks to my aggressive policy of blocking IP addresses. That will be the subject of a future post. Also, this is only the second false positive I’ve gotten in the entire time I’ve been using Akismet.)

Anyway:

Earthquest flounders still:

http://ourtribune.com/article.php?id=14947

Don Allen Holbrook has officially chickened out and has settle with Huber Heights, Ohio thus closing that joke of a case he filed against his legitimate critics. He is now hawking timeshares for Bluegreen resorts. That is one step above working as a used Pinto salesman. Hilarious!

And let me just quote the entire article linked above, as it is only two paragraphs:

The East Montgomery County Improvement District board held its monthly meeting and learned that the EarthQuest theme park project is still lacking investors.
Chris Brown, CEO of Contour Entertainment, told the board that the institute is still lacking a lead investor for the project. He also told EMCID board members the project need a half billion dollar-investment to get underway.

“a half billion dollar investment to get underway”.

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Random notes: March 21, 2013.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Here’s your obit for Herbert Streicher, aka “Harry Reems”, the male star of “Deep Throat”: NYT. A/V Club.

Leaving alcohol, drugs, and pornography behind for good, Reems settled in Park City, Utah, where he got married, embraced Christianity, built a thriving real estate career, and—with the exception of interviews he did for the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat, and a round of interviews to promote its release—he made a concerted effort to stay as far out of the public eye as possible.

Oh, look! New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is re-thinking his hastily passed and poorly thought out gun control measures! It couldn’t have anything to do with his declining popularity, could it?

The gun-control law, approved in January, banned the sale of magazines that hold more than seven rounds of ammunition. But, Mr. Cuomo said Wednesday, seven-round magazines are not widely manufactured. And, although the new gun law provided an exemption for the use of 10-round magazines at firing ranges and competitions, it did not provide a legal way for gun owners to purchase such magazines.
As a result, he said, he and legislative leaders were negotiating language that would continue to allow the sale of magazines holding up to 10 rounds, but still forbid New Yorkers from loading more than 7 rounds into those magazines.

But gun control works!

A 47-year-old psychiatric patient was beaten to death in a locked shower room at Interfaith Medical Center in central Brooklyn late on Tuesday, officials said, and another patient, a 20-year-old, has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing.

I have not had time to go through all of it yet, but the NYT special section on “Museums” looks interesting. Call this a bookmark.

Here’s the LAT‘s second day article on the Bell convictions.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you in the national recording registry…

(Also: The Ramones first album! “Einstein on the Beach”! “South Pacific”! “Sounds of Silence”! The “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack?)

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