Comments on: Mugged.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:48:55 +0000

The Smoking Gun tells the story even better than the Fort Wayne dailies—with the actual police report:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0806082hammer1.html

By: LAMary

LAMary — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:32:31 +0000

I don’t think that’s a microphone in her hand. It looks like some sort of award.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:10:26 +0000

She dares to enlarge! a lesson for us all.

Some two decades ago we arrived in the Twin Cities ahead of a signature blizzard that heralded 2 weeks of blinding snow and wind. I was trapped indoors with baby Pete, but eventually i had to go outside and learn to live with it. upside was, spring was a real baby-bird spring, though summer brought a biblical flood, but otherwise gorgeous. people go outside in shorts in march, they’re so happy it’s above 40.

in the new millennium, winters are rarely so extreme, and we get a month or so of Minneapolis ‘mug’ to rival summers in Philadelphia. i recall my aunt and uncle running the AC 24/7 and thinking man, everyone is doing that, it must cost a fortune! i’d have slit my wrists last month had it not been for Mr. Slim.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:49:58 +0000

(Jolene, straps? What straps?)

Click on the picture to enlarge it, and you’ll see them. Thin spaghetti straps almost the same color as her skin.

By: LAMary

LAMary — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:33:09 +0000

Doesn’t that attitude about rain boggle the mind? Three years of drought and a seven month fire season, but please let the sun shine every day. The rain is so depressing.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:40:26 +0000

I arrived in Cal in January, during the Crosby Clambake, which is what the big Pebble Beach golf deal was called.
In The City, I remember cool February days, rained all the time, cold rain. The summers were beautiful along the coast, inland, of course, it was summer. Hot summer. In the San Joaquin valley it looked like Indiana, for all the hay baling.

It gets most unpleasant only in October. It gets freakin’ HOT in San Francisco in October…up over a hundred F sometimes, look it up.
It’s called “Mediterranean Climate” and I loved it, except for rainy February and hot-as-all-hell October. Back then, one only had to worry about fires in October…now the damn fire season last all year long! Now the rich Californians just move to the South of France, or wherever they want…the California dream has gone up in smoke for many.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:19:04 +0000

and did you notice the microphones that the well-engineered Aretha, the Queen of Soul, has in front of her, and firmly in her grip? (always good to have a backup, I guess)

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:37:19 +0000

I know. And then when we get just a little bit of much-needed rain, the local TV news anchors pitch it to the weatherman with a whiny comment like:

“Well, weatherman Mike, it is a an absolute mess out there today. Can you give us any good news about when this awful precipitation stuff will end?!?”

By: LAMary

LAMary — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:30:43 +0000

It’s like when they complain about cold. Anything below 70 is cold.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:59:07 +0000

I knew that, Mary. I was just poking fun at the others by rubbing it in about our normally very fine weather. In truth though, when I hear native Californians comment on humidity here, I do tend to roll my eyes a bit.