From Wired via ZillaSays: The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term “Nigga” for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s online database reveals. I feel like the “is-it-ok-to-say-’nigga’-even-if-you-are-black” controversy has popped up a bunch of times for me lately. [...]
So here is Dune, by Frank Herbert. It’s a verifiable classic of Science Fiction writing, it spawned a movie which is a classic of Science Fiction filmmaking, and I found a battered old copy of it at the by now famous Fredericksburg Library Booksale. It has a picture of Monument Valley on the spine. Don’t [...]
From the RTD: The boy and a parent – whom officials would not name – climbed a 4-foot wooden fence to enter a restricted area around the bear habitat on Saturday. The boy apparently tried to feed one of the bears an apple through the 10-foot chain-link fence that surrounds the bear exhibit and was [...]
I don’t know if many of you saw this, but the Danish guy who published the cartoons wrote a thing about it. I don’t 100% agree with this guy, but he has some really interesting points, like the following: I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening [...]
Last night at the Strawberry Street Cafe Matt proposed to my sister making him my newest brother! This is seriously sweet. First, I love getting new siblings because I didn’t have any of my own until I married my wife. Second Matt is killer sweet. Matt loves Richmond probably as much as I do. He [...]
PharrOut is going to redo/upgrade the ol’ RVABlogs one of these days. What I need from y’all is feature requests. We have some pretty neat ideas bouncing around, but I’m sure there is stuff we haven’t thought of yet. So if you would drop a comment with your request, gripe, whatever it would be much [...]
Sometimes I feel like I live in Blacksburg not Richmond. I’m not sure how much more of this “winter” I can handle. I swear just yesterday ice and snow remnants sat on my deck and now today! My Dashboard weather widget claims it’s 70° outside. I think I can hear “RIDE YOUR BIKE” blowing in [...]
Hey, in lieu of anything else to post, does anyone have a link to a color coded Richmond gang map? It had areas of the city shaded in with different colors for different gang presences. I want, no need to find that map. Drop me a comment if you have a clue.
In an ongoing discussion on our message board re: the Muhammad cartoons, I said: The longer there is a lack of outspoken moderate muslims, the more people will think Muhammed wears a bomb turbin. I realize that “moderate” and “outspoken” typically do not describe the same individual. But when the several continents have gone nutz, [...]
Any thoughts? Google video has kindly created a nice page of all the commercials for your viewing pleasure. Overall I thought it was a weak set of spots. The thing that irritates me is the slap stick kicker at the end of each commercial. I thought lots of the commercials were decent but then added [...]
From the RTD: The Richmond Braves have ruled out leaving the city, Mayor L. Douglas Wilder said yesterday. Wilder said the Atlanta Braves made that promise for their Class AAA franchise in Richmond as they and the city continue discussing his proposal to build a new $35 million to $40 million ballpark at the site [...]
Today I happened to follow a link to one of my wife’s favorite sites: The Superficial. I found this hilarious post on Katie “OT8″ Holmes: I can’t imagine why, but I can only assume Tom Cruise is up to his wild and crazy antics again. Maybe stretching weird fabric through his fiance’s vagina is his [...]
PBwiki is having a craaaazay special where if you blog about PBwiki they double your space for free. I mean who can pass that up, so here we go. What is this, how do you say, PeeBeewiki? First, read this if you need a refresher on wikis in general. PBwiki is a free hosted wiki [...]
Ha! Crazy ol’ i-net what will you think of next? I mean I thought it was kind of weird that the democrats picked the former Mayor of Richmond to respond to the President. Not a bad speech though — saying “for Commonwealth and country” is an awesome thing — he just needs to get a [...]