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toldya it was just a haitus
lemme say hi Chris!
ok. heres the story that i wish we had headlined “Bad Ass” but you cant have everything
“Marijuana smuggled inside donkey statues”
In a case that could cast suspicion on lawn ornaments everywhere, authorities say they have busted a drug ring that used ceramic donkey statues to smuggle $1.5 million worth of marijuana into the Los Angeles area.
At least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the scheme to ship 1,800 pounds of pot in 200 concrete burros discovered last month in a shipping container at the Port of Long Beach. The shipment came from Mexico and was being sent to a fictitious business in Fontana.
The marijuana was found hidden inside the hollowed-out decorative lawn statues, which stand 3 feet tall and weigh 100 pounds, said Immigration Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
read the whole thing here by one of our ace reporters Andrew Blankstein
(the LA Times has most of our blogs on TypePad)
update: its back up
so i took the subway. it was nice.
today i will go home at a reasonable hour and run around my neighborhood cuz im a disgusting pig. i will eat salad for lunch and the souls of the righteous for dinner. i will break up with the girl who told me i couldnt blog because hello how do you think she met me? i will then watch Lost and rejoice.
had the most delicious sushi last night that i didnt pay for. drank and enjoyed pleasant company.
before that i found myself in a discussion regarding the Green Movement. and the reason Al Gore needs to make himself a bigger player in the national discussion is because some very intelligent people think its all hype. and if thats what some movers and shakers in LA, and cool ones at that, think those thoughts, then i wonder how its playing in Peoria.
unrelated: our Daily Dish blog has a really funny post about the Guac Bowl that took place Sunday. written by my former Film Editor of LAist, Elina Shatkin, this post hit the front page of Digg this morning. which is always nice.
I said how I’m gonna blog if there’s no computers in here she was all you’ll find a way so don’t think about it. She said think about me. I said didn’t I think of you for a good 4 minutes there. She sighed and rolled closer to me and put her arm around me. Whispered clap if you want the light off. I clapped. Lights went off. I stared at the shadows on the ceiling. I put my hand on her booty short. I tried to remember where my car was parked. Young people talked loud in the next apartment. I thought about investigating the mirror that changed my life at work. It showed me how fat I am. I looked at myself like ten times. It was right before I did yoga for the first time. I know, who am I?
In college I could barely eat a slice of pizza all day. I could eat half a slice for lunch and another half for dinner. For some reason I also loved buffets even tho all I’d eat was jello.
I stared at the ceiling and played with her hair. How was this still happening to me. And who was this young woman who thought she could tell me what to do. Let alone when and where to blog.
Whoever she was she sure was soft.
I decided I would listen to her cuz her place was sweet and I know this is gonna sound corny but it was like she put thought into every kiss.
If only there was a way to ESP your blog posts to blogger.com
I know they haven’t figured out how to add photos to ESP blog posts, but that’s cool. You can always add them later.
– pauls boutique turns 20!
from a warmly welcomed press release that made its way to my In Box —
The first and most probably only hip hop record ever to be likened to Abbey Road, Dark Side Of The Moon and Pet Sounds, Beastie Boys’ groundbreaking Paul’s Boutique will celebrate its 20th birthday with a digitally remastered, visually expanded version. The 20th anniversary edition will finally see the landmark album released as its creators originally intended.
The Paul’s Boutique 20th anniversary re-release will be available in a multitude of formats, the first being a digital download available exclusively as of today at http://www.beastieboys.com (which has been completely overhauled and re-designed to commemorate the re-release). The basic 320kbps digital download with 3D interactive digital artwork will be available immediately upon order.
Pre-Orders also open today at beastieboys.com for the February 10 release of the following configurations:
Deluxe Digital Download
Digital album download in choice of format (320kbps MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless), 5 Beasties music videos, video commentary, 3D interactive digital album art
CD + Digital Download
8 panel ecopack CD + Digital Download
Vinyl + Digital Download
8 panel, 180g vinyl + Digital Download
T-Shirt Combos
Limited edition Paul’s Boutique t-shirt with wraparound album art. Available with Deluxe Digital, CD, or Vinyl combo.
20th Anniversary Commemorative Pack
Includes Digital Deluxe, CD, Vinyl, T-shirt, and an 8 foot wide poster of the album art as it was originally intended to be enjoyed.
The Paul’s Boutique reissue features no additional music, though a track-by-track audio commentary by the band detailing the making of the record will be available with every configuration.
all i know is i probably have gone through 5 cassettes and 7 cds of this puppy and i still dont think i have a cd version in my house (though i do have the mp3s on my hard drive)
and i have the cassingle of Hey Ladies
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today was the best monday ive had since my first monday.
then i realized that you all must be in as much shock as i am that Jack was hit by a bus
obviously it saddens us here at the busblog that such a legendary character went down because of public transportation.
looking for scott sterling’s cell phone number. apparently prince was about to have a special gig at his crib
here is part of scott’s report from the bowels of prince’s pad in the 90210
But in the wee hours of Feb. 1 in the opulent basement of his Beverly Hills mansion — a rec room that boasts a Prince-emblazoned pool table and and an encased “Purple Rain” motorcycle — Prince played an equally wide-ranging and mind-boggling set for a far more intimate gathering of fewer than 50 people, all of it designed to celebrate the launch of his Website lotusflow3r.com.
After a presentation of the new site, which looks to be an all-encompassing portal to Prince’s history as well as a direct line to the three albums he has slated for 2009 (the first being “Lotus Flow3r”, the electro-charged ’80s flashback “MLPSound” and the debut of his latest protégé Bria Valente), Prince emerged for post-press conference concert with a blistering rendition of the Cars’ 1979 new wave hit “Let’s Go.”
Prince led his lethal band, including the amazingly hard-hitting female drummer Cora Dunham, through a nearly two-hour set. It was a rollicking, celebratory affair, and it included takes on the Rolling Stones (“Miss You”), the Doobie Brothers (“Long Train Running”), Mary J. Blige (“Be Happy”) and a Sly & the Family Stone medley.
read the whole thing here and prepared to be as jealous as i am.