Best. Sloppy Joes. Ever.

If you haven't settled on what to eat tonight, you're welcome: Buffalo Chile Con Carne (aka gourmet sloppy joes) courtesy of Chef Dave.

Eumir Deodato "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (theme from 2001)

Happy 4th phanners.

I vote this as our new national anthem - it kicks the shit out of the current one.



(H/T The Butter Room)

Dear Phish: Halloween 2009

Many of you regularly bathing, upstanding citizens might not be aware of the magnitude of Phish's recently announced 3-Day Halloween Festival, which is all-but-confirmed to take place in Indio, California October 30-November 1.

Beginning in 1994, Phish began one of their greatest traditions by putting on their "musical costume" and covering someone else's album in it's entirety on Halloween. In 1994 they covered The Beatles' White Album, in 1995 The Who's Quadrophenia, in 1996 the Talking Heads' Remain in Light, and in 1998 the Velvet Underground's Loaded (with a surprise rendition of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon two nights later).

As to be expected with such a dedicated (mildly obsessed) fan-base, speculation is running rampant as to what album Phish will choose for their first Halloween show in over a decade. Here's my personal wish list, along with some honorable mentions.

1. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

All that I need to say is: "Purple Haze > Manic Depression > Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary > Fire > Third Stone From the Sun > Foxy Lady."

2. Led Zeppelin - II

"Heartbreaker > Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) > Ramble On > Moby Dick." If they could swing the vocals on this one it could be incredible.

3. Grateful Dead - American Beauty

This would be so good that it will clearly never happen.

4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Do I even need to list all of the ways this would be awesome? I'm skeptical as to whether Phish could pull this one off vocally though.

5. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

According to legend, Joe's Garage was initially selected for Halloween 1995, "but with insanely complex overdubs, potentially offensive lyrics, and several tunes (esp. Watermelon in Easter Hay) that Zappa had requested never be performed live again, the band (after learning a considerable amount of it) decided they just couldn't make it sound like it should and chose to instead play Quadrophenia."

While unlikely, I think the distinct possibility of Phish covering a double album over the span of two nights deserves mention:

Pink Floyd - The Wall

So what if Phish already covered Dark Side of the Moon? The Wall is one of the greatest albums ever made; "In the Flesh?" is one of my all-time favorite openers and songs like "Mother" "One of My Turns" "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" are just begging to be played by this band.

Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2

While some of the songs off these albums could be outstanding, most forget that there are 30 tracks between the two albums, and, honestly, only about 10 worth covering. This would be a lot of new material to learn and I'm not sure if Phish can match off Axl Rose's vocals.

Finally, no list would be complete without mentioning Michael Jackson's Thriller. While I could see Phish pulling a fake-out and opening with "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" - but beyond that playing the entire album might be beyond their vocal (and dancing) abilities.

Cannabis Quotes

In trying to verify whether this Secret Societies show on the History Channel was full of shit, I stumbled upon these quotes from various historical figures on Cannabis. Some highlights:

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington, U.S. President

This is my favorite:

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." - Carl Sagan, renown scientist, astronomer, astrochemist, author and TV host

By the way, where are you President Barack "I inhaled frequently. That was the point" Obama? If only he had the balls to say this again, except this from the White House:

"The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our nation's marijuana laws." -Barack Obama, January 2004

Or we could just listen to Mark Kirk.

Should I Go To Law School?

If you find yourself wondering this very question, check out this thread on Phantasy Tour. While a Phish message board isn't always the first place you should go seeking legal advice, what's being said is more accurate than any "should I go to law school" response I've ever seen (in case you don't know this yet, 90% of everything you've ever heard about law school is complete bullshit.)

Some highlights:

"[if i do go to law school, i dont necessarily have to practice law... lobbying, politics, etc are all things that i also have an interest in...] is also a complete crock of shit. I'm convinced that the best law school deans in the country got together one summer 35 years ago and said, "let's tell people they don't necessarily have to practice law, and that a law degree is super versatile, etc...then they'll come in droves." Well, it worked. The problems it that it is a total ruse."

"As a BK attorney...I see every day how the "non-dischargability" of student loan debt is used to abuse people who can't possibly earn a living with the salary they might hope to earn by the student loans they have created by getting a doctorate in whatever it may be...it's almost comical a few that I've seen. Student loans, next to Mortgage Servicers are high on my list of 2009's list of corporations most closly aligned with Tony Soprano..."

"I am studying for the bar as we speak. Most people in my graduating class are not happy about their choice to attend Law School. I am not one of them. The job market sucks and people are pissed they don’t have jobs, have a ton of debt, and most entry level jobs don’t pay more than $60,000. Getting your J.D. is not really a gateway to making lots of money anymore. Only go to Law School if you are sure it’s for you. Getting a J.D. really isn’t that hard and doesn’t give you that much of an edge. On the other hand, if you are a super good student and are mature enough to get good grades then you should go."

"By the way, litigation is the key to being happy. Find a public interest job that lets you litigate and your life will be worth living. You can make enough money to live comfortably and be happy. After 10 years, no more loans and you have enough trial experience to write your own ticket."

Here's my contribution

I will be a 3L this year. I spent the first two years HATING EVERY MINUTE of law school.

Right now I work at a small firm and the odd thing is that I really like my job and am kind of excited about being a lawyer. I'm lucky to have great bosses though- most people in law school are pretty douchey.

Considering I only have a year left I'm pretty happy right now - I might not feel this way when those loan payments start becoming due!

SERIOUSLY, don't go for the wrong reasons (parents, can't think of anything else, etc.) - it really sucks to pay 30k a year to hate what you do every day when you didn't really even want to be there in the first place.

3 Day Phish Halloween Festival

I could not be more excited.

Phish, the greatest band to ever grace this Earth, just announced a 3 day festival over Halloween weekend (10/30-11/01) at a location to be announced (Vegas?).

Having just returned from 4 awesome nights of Phish and gearing up for another run in August, I was just starting to wonder when Phish would make their Halloween plans. Considering Michael Jackson's recent death, it wouldn't be that surprising if Phish covered "Thriller" in it's entirety on Halloween - but that might be a little too predictable. Personally, I would kill to hear them attempt Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" - but I doubt that as well.

What will they play? Who knows. I'm sure I'll revisit this topic. I'm just ecstatic that they're playing.

Review: Transformers 2

I couldn't have been more excited when I found a bootleg copy of Transformers 2 at www.surfthechannel.com last night. I've been a huge Transformers fan since I was a kid, and have been greatly anticipating the new movie.

Boring. Awful. Terrible. Insufferable. Zero stars.

Those are the only words that come to mind to describe this movie. Granted, the first Michael Bay Transformers movie wasn't the best movie I've ever seen by any means, but this was just unbearable. It was so bad that I'm just going to leave it at that without discussing in grueling detail how terrible each particular aspect of the movie was.

I will now re-watch the original, animated, perfect, 1986 Transformers movie until I forget that Transformers 2 ever existed.

Et tu, Mark Kirk?

I just came across this Chicago Tribune article that outlines Republican Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk's proposed legislation to allow 25 year prison sentences for first-time marijuana offenders who possess highly-potent strains of the plant.

Until today, I had always thought that, even though Kirk was a Republican, he wasn't one of your run-of-the-mill completely evil and insane Republicans. He always came off as better than that: economically conservative but socially liberal - I can live with that. In fact, Kirk's platform seemed way more in line with my own personal views than the generally bible-touting Kentucky Democrats who only really concentrate on bringing in more pork. When I was a senior in high school Kirk came and talked to my political science class and seemed rational enough. Or so I thought.

I don't know if I've been clear about my position on the issue yet: marijuana is a plant that should be legal and regulated no differently than grapes; there is no rational basis for marijiana's criminalization; and one cannot seriously advocate marijuana's continued prohibition without completely ignoring reality. Yet Kirk seems to believe that increasing penalties based on a distinction that is almost impossible to determine outside a laboratory will work, because, the drug war has been so successful?

Anyways, I was so angry upon reading about Kirk's proposal that I wrote my second-ever letter to Congress:

To: info@kirkforcongress.com
From: [10,000 talkers]
Re: Severely Disappointed

Congressman Kirk,

As a former constituent, I would like to express how truly shocked and
disappointed I am in your recent decision to propose legislation that
would permit "penalties of up to 25 years in prison for a first-time
[marijuana] offense" (Chicago Tribune 06/15).

For over 30 years this country has waged war against its own citizens
over a non-addictive plant whose effects are milder than alcohol. 30
years later and marijuana has never been more potent or more popular,
and our country now boasts the highest incarceration rate in the
world.

1 in 10 African-American males in this country is incarcerated or on
probation/parole, but you don't care about that because there are few
African-Americans in your district. But do you know who you have a
lot of in your district? Teenagers. Teenagers with money, who, one
way or another, find pot.

I attended Greenbriar Elementary, Northbrook Junior High, and
Glenbrook North High School (where I was a state champion in policy
debate): I can tell you that more 1/4 of my classmates had tried
marijuana before entering high school and that more than half of the
students at GBN had tried pot at least once. Is this something to
celebrate? Obviously not. But if 30 years of a failed war on drugs
has taught us anything, it is that increased prison sentences do not
deter drug use, especially in teenagers who in all probability don't
even know the potential sentences. I'm not even going to mention the
shockingly high number of parents in the north shore who could fall
victim to your proposed legislation.

Who do you think you're targeting with this law? Poor people can't
pay $600 for an ounce of marijuana when they only make $500 in a
month. The only people who can afford such high-priced marijuana are
your own constituents, the affluent students and parents of the north
shore.

I have never been arrested, but I have friends who have been arrested
for possession of marijuana in Northbrook. One went on to graduate
from Harvard and now is at the top of his class at [] Law School
working at a top law firm downtown, another is at [] Law
working for the prosecutor's office, and another who was in the
smoke-filled car with them actually worked for you. Their lives would
have been completely destroyed had they been sentenced to 25 years in
prison, and the community, while gaining nothing, would have lost
everything these individuals have to offer (and hundreds of thousands
in incarceration costs).

Maybe you don't realize this, but the only individuals capable of
measuring the marijuana's potency level are scientists in a lab. Your
average north shore teenager (or their parent) has no way of knowing
whether the marijuana that they got from another north shore student
or parent has a THC content of 14.9% or 15% - a potential difference
of 24 years in terms of the potential jail sentence. Your proposed
legislation has no hope of accomplishing its goals and will only serve
to destroy the lives of the hundreds of your constituents (and
thousands nationwide) who are arrested every year with absolutely no
way of knowing the THC level of their marijuana.

You once gave me hope in the Republican party. Sure, Mitch McConnell
might be a hack, but I always thought Mark Kirk was above all the
hysterics and partisan maneuvering that has alienated every segment of
the population from the Republican Party in recent years. If you've
ever seen the West Wing, I considered you to be the Alan Alda of
Republicans. I was clearly mistaken.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am,

[10,000 talkers]

Phish Live From Some Guy's iPhone

This might be the greatest thing to ever happen to me, especially considering my recent plea to Phish to broadcast their shows live on the internet:

Phish. Streaming. Live. Free.

I just watched the opening notes of "Squirming Coil." I didn't have to wait for Twitter to tell me what's playing, nor will I have to wait until tomorrow to hear the show (though the next day's recordings will undoubtedly be higher quality).

This guy might single-handedly be responsible for pushing Phish into giving us live broadcasts in the near-future. There are 3,825 people watching through this guy's iPhone right now. In mathematical terms - 3,825 people x $10 a person = $38,250 (equivalent of 765 tickets) Phish isn't making. Who could say no to this much extra money? Even if just to give it all to some Charity like the Mockingbird Foundation or the NADCP, Phish's management would have to be complete eediots to pass this opportunity up.

Dear Phish: Let Me Watch Live

I should preface this by stating for the record that I love Phish. For me, to say that Phish is merely the greatest band to come out of the 80s and 90s would be an understatement; they are probably the greatest single force to have ever graced this humble planet.

When Phish announced their imminent reunion last fall, I was beyond ecstatic. When my girlfriend scored tickets to all three reunion shows in Hampton through the Phish Ticketing Lottery, I started counting down the minutes. Fuck Christmas, is it March yet?

I knew that seeing every Phish show this Summer was probably not a realistic goal, considering my employment/educational/financial situations, not to mention tickets to Red Rocks and St. Louis being nearly impossible for less than $300 a pop.

It's nice and all that Phish is staying current with the latest techno-fads by posting live setlists on Twitter, but what I want to know is why I can't watch Phish streaming from Jones Beach right now. It's not as if the technology doesn't exist: Coventry was simulcast five years ago and The Allman Brothers recently raised the bar with Moogis.

I already have my tickets to all of next week's shows, but that's not enough for me. I want to see tonight's show right now. Over 13,000 people signed the petition for Phish to simulcast the Hampton shows, yet Phish has remained silent on the issue. It's not like simulcasting would hurt ticket sales: watching on the computer will always be second to the live experience.

If Phish cares enough about making Scotty B happy to bust out "Curtis Loew" at Fenway, then why can't they placate another couple thousand phans?

Not to mention that this would be a goldmine for the band. I would happily pay $10 to watch the show live on my computer; I would even be willing to pay more. In fact, Phish could potentially make more money from online simulcasts than from tickets for certain high-demand shows like Red Rocks and St. Louis, where ticket demand greatly exceeds supply.

My Old Kentucky Home: Improving Lexington

This is going to be the first of what will probably become many rants about Lexington, Kentucky; where I've called home for the last seven years.

I was reading "Madison Trip Shows Importance of Attitudes" this morning on Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Tom Eblen's blog and I thought he brought up some pretty good points:

"Metro Lexington is a more beautiful place, with better year-round weather, than either of those cities. So why do they rank higher on national surveys of quality of life and economic vitality?"

U.S. Mood Map: Kentucky Saddest, Hawaii Gladdest

While Eblen might be exaggerating the "better year-round weather" bit (at least this year), our worst winters are not even in the same league as the winters in Chicago, Detroit, or Buffalo. Yet, for some reason, these oppressively cold cities consistently rank higher than Lexington in terms quality-of-life indicators. Why?

Obviously there's not a single answer; my gut feeling is that it has to do with the lack of economic opportunities in Lexington and Kentucky as a whole. Not that this problem is unique to Lexington by any means, but what is someone graduating college with a liberal arts degree right now supposed to do here? This was a problem even before the recession because the root of it is that, while there are a good number of white collar jobs and manual labor-intensive jobs, there really isn't much in between. The biggest employers in and around Lexington: Alltech, Amazon, Smuckers, UPS, Lexmark, to name a few (not to mention the horse-racing industry), do not offer the entry-level positions with the potential for advancement that college grads are looking for. Not that college grads are "better" than these jobs; it's just that you don't need to go $50,000 in debt in order to get a job at Amazon. Although Lexington is a college town, many of its graduates are ultimately forced to leave because there are no jobs for them. Which leads to the next point:

"We don’t integrate our universities into the rest of the community as well as Madison and Austin do. We don’t value education — or educated people — as much as those cities do. We won’t embrace and celebrate our creative entrepreneurs as much as those cities do."

This could not be more true, and I think it also helps explain the lack of economic opportunities in and around Lexington. It's no coincidence that the state's top university can afford $40 million for a new basketball coach yet their professors are not allowed to make paper copies of the syllabus because there isn't money in the budget for copying.

Again, this is merely my experience, but there's kind of a toxic attitude towards education that seems ingrained in the culture here. I didn't have the best grades in high school, which is part of the reason I ended up at UK, but when I got here I felt like if not the smartest person in most of my classes, I was certainly the hardest-working. Having been a C student in high school I was shocked (though not as shocked as my parents) when I made straight A's in my first semester. I won the award for best research paper in my department when I was a sophomore. Sure, I was an under-achiever in high school, but the difference in my public education and that of my peers was astonishing; many of my peers were not even capable of writing a five paragraph essay, yet somehow graduated from high schools in Louisville like Ballard with B+ averages. I cannot stress enough the academic laziness instilled in my fellow students while an undergraduate.

Just to illustrate: in college I sat through class after class where the majority of students flat-out refused to read assigned material. Refused! It was guaranteed hilariousness to have foreign professors who were clearly from countries where students do their homework and respect the professors (remember we're talking about college students here not 5th graders), because of the shock of these professors upon realizing that they had been duped into playing head babysitter in the day-cares with beer that we call college. The cherry on top is that, although many of my peers were too lazy to read a three page reading assignment, in the end most thought that they were smarter than the professor anyways because, in their minds, the professor was probably just a dumb foreigner who couldn't speak English.

"One message came through loud and clear: It’s not about the place so much as the attitudes of the people who live there. Lexington must do more to leverage its “social capital.” All of it.Cities such as Madison and Austin are more open to people who are different. They value diversity and strive for inclusion...Too many aspects of community life are as starkly black or white as the plank fences that surround our horse farms. For example, many Lexingtonians do not welcome Latinos, even though the local economy would collapse without them. Gays and lesbians often feel shunned. Young people of all races complain they are not valued — or listened to."

Ding! Ding! Ding! Let's be clear: there are many great folks here. But, at the same time, there's a lot of racism, both overt and covert.

Having lived in the northern suburbs of Chicago my whole life, I don't think I had ever heard someone actually use the "N" word until I came to school here as a freshman and joined a fraternity (this wasn't even the fraternity that dresses in confederate uniforms every year). Given the stereotypes many outsiders have about Kentucky, I can't say I was that surprised thatsomeone from Kentucky used the "N" word. What did surprise me, though, was how many of the people I heard using the "N" word in casual conversation were from Louisville. (Define irony: racist rich white kids from the suburbs smoking Black & Milds, listening to hip-hop, while wearing gold chains and G-Unit attire.) Let's not even mention the anti-Latino sentiment (most try not to). Even the way most people in Lexington say "those MEXicans" is offensive.

...So what's my point? I don't really have one, other than pointing out the fact that our city has a long way to go. The outdated, ignorant attitudes of a few (although unfortunately more than a few in reality), more than anything,continue to hold this city back and reinforce outsider's stereotypes that we're just a bunk of backwards drunkard redneckians . Maybe if we want to undo the stereotypes the rest of the country has about Kentucky, we should start by undoing the outdated and often racist stereotypes many Kentuckians hold towards people they perceive as different.

Phish Releases Time Turns Elastic

From Phish.com:

"We're excited to announce the release of "Time Turns Elastic," a new track from Phish's forthcoming studio album, available now for download exclusively at iTunes. Recorded in New York City, the as-yet-untitled record is Phish's first studio album in five years and its second with producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's 1996 album, Billy Breathes. The album is scheduled for release on July 28th.

To download the track, please click here."

PHISH "TIME TURNS ELASTIC" AVAILABLE AT iTUNES from Phish on Vimeo.

As made obvious by the short clip above, Time Turns Elastic has really come into its own. Honestly, after halfway listening to a poor recording from the first time this song was played in Nashville, I didn't think very much of it. Then again, it always seemed like this song would not reach its potential until it was added to Phish's repertoire.

While there will inevitably be those jaded individuals who flame on the new release for, basically, not being made in 1993, I think that TTE represents everything Phish fans could be hoping for in the new Phish 3.0.

At this point, I would easily sell all of my worldly possessions in order to pay scalper prices for Summer tour (if only my possessions were worth that much).

Download: Dire Straits Live @ Wembley 07/10/1985

I was playing around on T.U.B.E. (The Ultimate Bootleg Experience, which is exactly what it sounds like) the other day and came across some classic Dire Straits at Wembley Arena in the middle of 1985.

Download here: (Rapidshare) (Megaupload)

I don't know about you, but any soundtrack to my childhood would not be complete without some honorary Dire Straits. You know you really forget things over the years like how uplifting "Walk of Life" is, or how you used to know every word to the beautiful yet kind of cheesy love ballad "Romeo & Juliet."

And seriously, how awesome was the "Money for Nothing" video, especially to someone who wasn't even 10 years old yet?


Watch Dire Straits - Money for Nothing in Music | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

New Taste Recipes: Cold Poached Salmon

Let's just say someone in my family is a chef. An awesome chef. As an added bonus, pretty much all of his recipes are super healthy. Find all of Chef Dave's recipes on his website or follow him on Twitter.

Cold Poached Salmon with Mustard-Dill Glaze, Cucumber Salsa and Avocado (7-8 Servings)

Ingredients

1 Side of Salmon, about 2 3/4#, boneless, skinless
1 Tbs. Olive Oil
2 Cups Water
1 Pinch Salt and Pepper

Mustard-Dill Glaze:

3 TBS. Dijon Mustard
2 TBS. Maple Syrup
1 tsp. Red Vinegar
1/2 tsp. White Vinegar
1 TBS. Dill, chopped

Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix.














Cucumber Salsa:
1 Cucumber, peel, seed, small dice
1/4 Red Onion, small dice
1/2 Yellow Bell Pepper, small dice
2 Tbs. Dill, fresh, chopped
2 Tbs. Olive Oil
1 Tbs. Red Vinegar
1 Tbs. Lemon Juice
salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix.


Optional: Avocado

Directions

1) Heat Oven To 350°
2) Place a piece of foil on a sheet pan.
3) Rub oil over the foil. Place salmon on the foil.
4) Sprinkle w/ salt and pepper. Pour water on the sheet pan.















5) Place pan in oven and bake 25 minutes.
6) Remove and check for doneness by inserting a fork in the thickest part of the salmon. Open up a small hole in the meat and look inside to see if salmon is cooked through.
7) Place salmon into refrigerator overnight.
8) Add Mustard-Dill Glaze, Cucumber Salsa, and Avocado.

The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

Somewhere in between rocking out this morning to Ann Marie Calhoun's "Ripple" and Phish's cover of "Terrapin Station" I stumbled upon The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics by David Dodd.

This might occupy me for a while...

Book Review: The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton

The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder

by Sally Denton $14.95

I was able to last about 30 seconds before this book completely hooked me, opening with the final moments of the bizarre life of Andrew C. Thornton II, the Army paratrooper, narcotics officer, and lawyer who also headed "The Company," a major international drug and gun smuggling ring based in Lexington, Kentucky. On September 11, 1985, while piloting a plane full of Columbian Cocaine over Knoxville, Tennessee and apparently being pursued by US Customs, Thornton plummeted his death while attempting to escape, not accounting for the extra 80 pounds of cocaine on him that ultimately over-weighted his parachute. Police found Thornton wearing night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, Gucci loafers, and a duffel bag containing 40 kilos of cocaine, $4,500 in cash, knives, and two pistols.

From Thornton the reaches of this conspiracy touched every level of local, state, and national government operating in and around Kentucky. The conspiracy included prostitution, bribery of public officials, drug dealing by narcotics officers, money laundering through shell corporations and Caeser's Palace in Las Vegas, gun-running, theft of classified military hardware, importation of tons (literally) of marijuana and cocaine from Columbia into the Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, and of course, murder and official cover-up.

I really can't believe that no one has made a movie out of this book yet. It's like a hybrid between The Wire and Law & Order that actually went down. You could not make up a better story in my opinion. I did not put this book down from the moment I started reading until I finished it the next day; 365 pages rarely go by that quickly.

Video: Ann Marie Calhoun "Ripple" (Grateful Dead)

This is pretty amazing regardless of whether you're watching it for the 1st or 100th time.



Ann Marie Calhoun nails the Grateful Dead classic "Ripple" on the fiddle, making it sound more like something you'd hear in a silver-mining town in the 1870's than San Francisco in the 1970's.

Inaugural Post

Welcome to 10,000 talkers whose tongues were all broken. If you've managed to find this site then you probably waste as much time on the interwebs as I do.

About me: 20-something law student, generally more liberal than not phish phanatic born in Southern California, raised North of Chicago and residing in Lexington, KY for the better part of the last decade.

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