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You know what scares the hell out of me? Well, folks, it ain’t vampires. Especially teenage vampires with perfect fangs and abs. (This riff has certainly been done before, but I don’t care. I don’t have time to read everything, and that goes double for…
It was back in ‘87, there had been a shooting at the bus station. It was big news for central Illinois, because nothing ever happens here. As it turns out, a Mexican guy about 23 years old, one Tomas Diaz was facing two counts of murder for the May 14th shooting of Bill Johnson, 29, from Passaic, New Jersey. Police didn’t have a motive. The bus was passing through town en route from Chicago to Laredo, Texas. Within seconds after the bus stopped in Bloomington, passengers heard of a gunshot from the back of the bus. Johnson was fatally wounded and later died in the local hospital.
cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot
G Bitch to Sixth District NOPD: I live on the street where the shooting was Sunday and there’s a bullet in my neighbor’s wall.
Sixth District to G Bitch: Well, the scene has already been processed so we don’t need it but if your neighbor needs something, like for insurance or something, she can call and have an officer come out to write a report. All right?
“Blogs are so 2000,” she said. And with that boost of confidence, I was off and running. I’m usually not the last one to hop on the bandwagon, but just about. I still wore the tight-roll during Y2K. When I was first approached by Derek…
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Once upon a time, there was a swamp with turtles, and sometimes, there were elephants and hippopatumuses. They went for a good swim and bath, and there was a forest with toucans, and in that forest, there was a bear. The scientists they were named…
By the time we finished our conversation, Chandrashakar had a wild look in his eyes and he had his hands around my throat. He had lost it! Gone off the deep end! The poor bastard had been in too many meetings, and he had snapped like a rubber band.
we pulled a set of jumper cables out of the trunk
and all the problems of the world
were solved
cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot
Ravitch responds to the outcome of the DC mayoral race, one frequently called a referendum on Michelle Rhee, and the narratives generated about the outcome and the recent charter movement’s main narrative. [Which she neatly sums up at the end–read all the way through for the full effect]
In the closing days of the Fenty campaign, [Rhee] went to the districts where Fenty had his strongest support—the largely white districts in the city’s Northwest section—to rally voters.
I haven’t been to Carol’s Pub for a decade, but it will always be the emotional naval in my personal version of Chicago’s heaving swollen abdomen. So to speak. Carol’s Pub is what snobs would call a “dive bar,” but what I would call a…
Greetings from Coburn Mountain, Alabama, and welcome to my first blog post ever. That’s right, first one. Why do I keep thinking about those monkeys they used to launch into orbit? I live on a farm, which everyone in my family imaginatively refers to as…
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