| 'My Favorite Dog': Dueling Rhymers
Check out his rhyme on the posting about least favorite dog below. I'll post it tomorrow. 5:57 p.m. It's been awhile since I provided you with a blogging term from samizdata. So, here's one -- bloggerel: "Opinion put forward on a blog that has previously been repeated over and over and over again until it makes people sick." Sentence: Flame-throwers from both the Left and the Right often are guilty of bloggerel. 3:01 p.m. Gotta call from an oldtimer from Spokane who believes Hillary Clinton faked fainting during a speech in Buffalo today to upstage the successful Iraqi vote here. Amazing, but true. 1:46 p.m. Wheerrrre's Rick-O? Eagle Eye writes: "I think it bodes well that you are attracting all kinds of readers. Dont be offended by this but it reminds me of Rick Miller on the radio side.
IN DEPTH: CONNECTION TO LAS VEGAS PAST: HOMEGROWN COMPANY Boyd Gaming ...
Boyd Gaming founder Bill Boyd, 76, stands Monday afternoon near the construction site of the $4.8 billion Echelon resort, which will stand on the Strip where the Stardust used to be.
Photo by Clint Karlsen.
Bill Boyd, executive chairman of Boyd Gaming, center, meets Dec. 14 with colleagues at the Fresh Market Cafe in Sam's Town, one of Boyd Gaming's original properties.
Photo by Ronda Churchill
Bill Boyd stands with Dennis O'Neill, shift manager, while making a surprise stop at a preshift meeting for dealers at Sam's Town.
Photo by Ronda Churchill
Bill Boyd points to a collection of family photographs on a wall at Sam's Town that show his father, casino pioneer Sam Boyd.
Photo by Ronda Churchill
Bill Boyd and friend Judy Vieths reminisce about the Stardust before its implosion in March.
Baseball Charities set to top $500,000 at Sunday's fundraiser
This Sunday at Scottsdale Stadium, not only will some of the players on the baseball cards your mother might have thrown away decades ago come to life, but a local nonprofit organization is set to mark a milestone. Scottsdale-based Baseball Charities, donor of thousands of dollars to Little League teams throughout Arizona, is set to surpass $500,000 in funding so young players can get in the game by building a baseball field or by simply buying equipment. After Sunday's 16th annual Celebrity Baseball Game, $37,000 that has been raised during the last year will be distributed among 40 Little League teams, including $5,000 for one team, $2,500 apiece for two teams and $1,000 each for five teams, according to Buddy Schultz, the organization's executive director and a Scottsdale resident.
January 2007 Archives
When I was in middle school and my eldest sister was away at college, I would help myself to her bitchin' collection of concert tees that she left behind in her bedroom... which I had taken over. I got so many compliments from the older kids on my Echo and the Bunnymen shirt. Didn't know who they hell they were, but thought it was cool. Midnight Oil and INXS were faves too. And I loved her Dream of the Blue Turtle tee from Sting's first solo tour. I'm going on about all this because the big news today is that the Police are reuniting for the Grammys, which take place on February 11. This is a big deal because, as my sis could tell ya all about, they all hated each other when the Police dissolved in 1984. The biggest drama took place between Sting and Stuart Copeland, who probably fought over whose frostilocks looked better.
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