"We will miss flying our Black Flags in the shadows of your sterile condos"

We won't miss your hygiene challenged junkies who groped and harassed every woman who walked by.

Hope Robin Thicke will pay up.

Looks like an opening for Weird Al to do the halftime!

(He's always cutting edge on media relationships.)

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Seattle is experiencing a Coolness Drain.

On to Yakima!

Have to agree with the late Bill Cumming - that Callahan is some good shit. I have a friend who makes his own and it's *insane* - imagine Anderson and Tobey, with a shot of Klee.

In certain ways I'm sympathetic to anarchists, but I'm not the slightest bit interested in their critique of multifamily residential architecture.

Fuck their oppressively dismal utopian vision of "communal" kitchens and bathrooms, and "non-hierarchical" shared spaces that everyone assumes somebody else will clean. If enjoying some privacy makes me a tool of the capitalist system, then so be it.

Given the huge amounts of revenue that the NFL is already taking in from a variety of sources, it seems kind of obscene that they'd want an artist to pay to perform at the Super Bowl.

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I read that others find it obscene too. So much that some are considering it a Hate Crime.

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awww, come now. The cities have to build new stadia in the hopes of luring the superbowl, only then to have to give tax exemption to all the superbowl activities and provide streets, hotels, car rentals, etc to the NFL. Why wouldn't the performer want to do the same ?

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2014/06/09…

Thinking of hosting a Super Bowl in your backyard? The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has unearthed the list of demands that the NFL presents cities with (or at least presented Minneapolis with) in exchange for awarding the Super Bowl, and holy moley, it’s even crazier than anyone thought:

A free squad of city police officers to stop the sales of counterfeit tickets and unauthorized merchandise.
A waiver of government licensing fees for as many as 450 courtesy cars and buses.
A one-mile-wide “clean zone” around the Super Bowl stadium and a six-block one around the NFL’s hotel where nobody can do anything that isn’t approved by the league. (Sell stuff or protest, presumably.)
At least 20 free billboards.
Travel costs for 180 people to take a “familiarization trip” in advance of the Super Bowl.
Use of 35,000 free parking spaces.
Hotels where the teams will stay must televise the NFL Network to guests for one year before the game.
Free cellphone towers, if the cellphone service isn’t good enough.
Installation of ATMs at the stadium that accept the NFL’s preferred credit and debit cards, and removal of ATMs for conflicting services.
Free ad space in local newspapers and air time on local radio stations to promote the game.
Free police escorts for team owners.
Free use of two “top quality bowling venues,” for the Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic, and of three “top quality golf courses” for the NFL Foundation Golf Classic.
And, last but not least, full exemption for the league from city, county, and state taxes.

The NFL’s bid requirement document begins with the statement that “the day of the Super Bowl game is America’s unofficial holiday, a day when the attention of an entire nation is focused on the game in one region.” So don’t think of it as handing over your wallet to one of the world’s richest sports leagues, Minneapolis. Think of it as tithing.

So what white, affluent neighborhood will Black Coffee move to next? Or will they come on down to the south end where the working class still resides?