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MidIowa Paranormal is running a contest and YOU could win the chance to go along with them as they investigate a major paranormal site somewhere in Des Moines, Iowa!

Read on for details on how to enter!

Continue reading ‘Ghost Busted: Win a spot on a paranormal investigation!’

Continuing our pioneering history in the realm of civil rights, Iowa’s Supreme Court recently struck down a law defining a marriage as between a man and a woman as unconstitutional. To that I say, amen.

Continue reading ‘Get out mah bidness!(a note on gay marriage)’

crack open the white noise player and pour some cosmic bluegrass into your ears.  fill your cubicle.  rub it all over your body.  des moines’ own mr. baber’s neighbors will be plucking the solar strings all week long.  dig it?  buy it on itunes.

yo, pause pandora for 26.4 minutes and listen to some explosive, local shit.  setbacks are scheduled for tomorrow is the latest north of grand album.  it slaps you across the face with 8 high-power tracks and gets the fuck out ‘fore you know what hit you.  hooks for days.  sly lyrics.  many flavors.  track 5 is probably about the city you live in.

you can hear the the full album on white noise all week long.  if you like it, for god’s sake buy it on itunes.

A certain section of the Des Moines population went home a little bit tousled and flushed after its first encounter with Detroit-based band, Electric Six at the Vaudeville Mews on Thursday night. Front man Dick Valentine pulled all the right moves and made it a memorable night that I’m pretty sure was as good for him as it was for us.

(Click on any of these pictures to go to the complete set on Flickr.)

Continue reading ‘Electric Six Makes Love to the Mews’

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBWYD3tdewc

sean from north of grand let us use his basement. jc from the house of bricks let us use his basement. emily from kentuky made the dress. nicole came from out of nowhere with with wendy whom we’d never met. bertelsen from hollywood lit the basement and shot the band. the truth came from iowa. john came from the theatre. jared came from mississippi. aaron from FLiCK. satyrus shot the board room. nine designed the power point. wendy beat the shit out of duke. bob from luther picked up the raw footage in a mustang. he drug it through the ocean and sent it to cyberspace. we watched it for the first time on a cellular phone in the perkins parking lot. thanks to everyone involved.

iowa’s economy is a smooth blend of insurance and agribusiness with a dash of meth production. flanked by two rivers and crossed by two arteries that cut through the golden corn and come together in the center of our state. welcome to des moines. Continue reading ‘feature #six = audio’

can we get these city workers some meth please?! budgets are tight, i understand. don’t want to inflate the plow tax. a state employee on meth and ritalin could plow for a full week if he had to. only stopping to pee and vomit, he triples his capacity to work. when this policy causes his death we will say we’re creating jobs.

Q: What’s worse than a politician that’s got his head in the sand?

A: One that can’t even give an opinion when asked.

So, Chuck Grassley can’t say anything critical about President Bush? WTF is his head?

If it’s not blatantly obvious what’s been going down over the past 8 years, then Grassley needs to join Bush in being put out to pasture. This gets back to one of the central issues we’ve discussed over and over and over and over…we don’t just need age limits in government, we need proof of balls.

Someone has to go out on a limb every once in a while. And it doesn’t mean that you keep up with the current trends, like having a Twitter account or some whack craft like that. It means, when the occasion presents itself, you wander off the reservation and speak a little mind.