tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79936499371847888422024-03-13T10:19:10.091-07:00隧道到亚洲 Tunnel to AsiaCHEAP INT'L AIRFARES! www.globester.com TELL 'EM KNESEBECK SENT YA!Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-58449047891944141582012-12-15T01:04:00.000-08:002013-02-12T08:04:40.303-08:00National<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Post School Massacre, Americans Still Blame Islamic Boogeyman </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Domestic Terrorism not a Concern for War on Terror</span></i><br />
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(KB) Hartford - As the nation mourns from coast to coast - following two unrelated outbreaks of gun violence taking thirty lives - people are asking <i>why, </i>again, for the fortieth time in a decade. Despite massive unconstitutional efforts such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Department to tap phones, arrest tanned people and molest everyone at the airport, violence continues to ravage the country, month by month, year by year. </div>
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"This isn't terrorism," says bureaucrat Finny McFlourideface. "Terrorism is the product of third world evil-doing towel-heads, who take control of an aircraft of some sort. What we saw today was simply a young man exercising his second amendment rights in order to murder 27 people. What's so wrong about that?"</div>
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Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-7634721595757769772012-10-16T12:19:00.001-07:002012-10-27T00:12:01.416-07:00<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Study: Web Comments on News Articles Mean Absolutely Nothing</span><br />
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WASHINGTON (KB) -- A new study released by the University of Shit at Dover shows that user comments on internet news sites make no real actual change in geopolitics, public opinion, nor reality. According to the study, 100% of comments go unseen, unnoticed and ungiven-a-fuck-about. </div>
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"I used to get a laugh when I read comments on various news articles," says Peter Donnepockets, a frequent web-user from Isle of Wight. "But now I don't read anything at all."</div>
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The current administration has been hard at work trying to make public influence a more profitable asset; however, public opinion has consistently failed to portray news in a positive light. </div>
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"It's almost as if they don't read the articles," says President Barack Waste-of-time Obama, "like they don't want to hear our delicately manufactured lies. It's a real eye-opener for me."</div>
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In the meantime, prominent news-sites have vowed to cancel any commentary on further articles in an effort to curb negative reaction to positive reports of progress progress progress</div>
Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-43765794097830270152012-08-30T00:11:00.002-07:002012-08-30T00:13:40.399-07:00THIS IS AN UPDATE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an update. The photo above was taken in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It is a scrappy border town on Hari Raya holiday. The city center has been evacuated for the suburbs, leaving only a dazed mass of Bangladeshi migrant workers with nothing to do. Gathered around the central bus stop, the horde of men stare at passers by and shift around on their stoops. Nothing in their hands, they look useless and bored. Nothing in their immediate future, they look agitated and confused. <br />
Here, we see a slight mockery as the local Chinese burn their dragon idols and carve up a roasted pig in the immediate presence of prophet Mohommad's fasting children. Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-71141281200275816602012-07-18T09:17:00.002-07:002012-07-26T03:15:18.617-07:00SINGAPURA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Go to the park<br />
and drink some beer<br />
it's the sane thing<br />
to do here<br />
in Singapore<br />
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Like a Californian<br />
suburb<br />
without the mexicans<br />
indonesians instead<br />
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very sterile<br />
very white<br />
very passive in the fight<br />
against technological<br />
automation consuming us all<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">a population born and bred</span><br />
to constitute the NEW WORLD ORDER<br />
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25,000 miles away<br />
the American culture<br />
is being torn to shreds<br />
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and we will now destroy<br />
everything in this world<br />
that was born from our heads<br />
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say goodbye, my friend<br />
because<br />
the age of the aquarius is nigh<br />
and this is your last<br />
stressful, <span style="background-color: white;">bitter, </span><span style="background-color: white;">whiskeyed </span><br />
sigh<br />
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<br />Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-89187791582708634882012-07-18T09:07:00.000-07:002012-07-26T03:08:30.878-07:00DEFEAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was flashing in your eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">like a shiny coin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he</b> hotel man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">you never knew his name</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">his derelict past was your future plan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Until the turks took you down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">a fisher pulled you up</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">s</span>o</b> you went flapping down the pavement</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">a</span>nd </b>your spirit was finally sucked out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">completely</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And felt the cold of what could have been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">by then too late though</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the river had run</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and you have been tied</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">around the great</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">forever</span><br />
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<br />Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-5884662952297104232012-07-18T08:58:00.004-07:002012-07-26T03:14:45.502-07:00PORK RICE<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">guy on a plane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">throwing a fit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">there are peaches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">in the garden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and he can't get his</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">guy goes to Thailand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">picks up a hot one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pukes in a public toilet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">feels the burn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">teeth don't bite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of his life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his brain is a worm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of his life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eating his thoughts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of his life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">never sees the beauty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of a woman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no way no how</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of his life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While he drools out his heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of this life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that was a bad plate of pork rice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he ate in Chiang Mai</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the rest of his life</span>Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-24451780457321161612012-07-18T08:50:00.001-07:002012-07-26T03:17:03.901-07:00BK HOUSEweary traveler<br />
orders a thai plate<br />
of fried chicken and salad<br />
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weary traveler<br />
looking like chris<br />
McCandless<br />
in the final stage of fate<br />
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weary traveler<br />
got a brown girl<br />
so general of brown<br />
would be from any<br />
equatorial race<br />
or one of the ten million islands<br />
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indonesian face<br />
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weary traveler<br />
got yourself a book<br />
<br />
listening to the beach boys<br />
while you cut the meat<br />
the chicken from the bone<br />
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so hungry<br />
you eat with her in silence<br />
for the beach boys blaring in your ear<br />
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cuts the meat<br />
from the bone<br />
the tastiest meat<br />
you ever known<br />
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die, die<br />
must try<br />
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die, die<br />
must try<br />
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die, die<br />
must try<br />
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<br />Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-19113471683898530272012-05-30T03:55:00.004-07:002012-05-30T04:11:02.922-07:00MINNESOTAThe seasons are quite drastic there<br />
it's very enjoyable to see and to feel<br />
the changes<br />
<br />
i lived in a basement for a while<br />
i don't even recall for how long<br />
but it was definitely through a winter<br />
i had one small window over my head<br />
it was usually covered by snow<br />
letting just a soft<br />
white light<br />
in<br />
<br />
the colors are fantastic<br />
around fall<br />
really, they are<br />
phenomenal<br />
good beer drinking weather<br />
<br />
It's a good place to drink beer<br />
everybody does it<br />
drinking beer outside<br />
in minnesota<br />
feels quite good<br />
<br />
or even from a bar<br />
like the gopher<br />
or skinners<br />
where you have a window outside<br />
to the color<br />
but you're probably not gonna leave<br />
til the night<br />
but<br />
even then<br />
there's color<br />
<br />
the summers are hot though<br />
good for fourth of july parties on the banks<br />
of the saint croix<br />
<br />
music and such<br />
things<br />
<br />
In chinese, <em>Chun Tian</em> means spring<br />
<em>Tian</em> means sky<br />
which is very <em>Chun</em>, <br />
apparently<br />
<br />
the snow is melting down the streets<br />
channeling down Ohio<br />
flooding the mississippi<br />
birds and things<br />
rain<br />
also a change in attitude<br />
the snow is gone<br />
go to Paul's painting studio perhaps<br />
color<br />
color<br />
color<br />
<br />
people outside<br />
mexicans<br />
the bars are all naked<br />
on the outside<br />
in new world light<br />
and<br />
reek of winter on the inside<br />
and I walk<br />
i walked so much<br />
down the high bridge<br />
up the wabasha one<br />
all the way to midway<br />
they were tearing up university<br />
to put in trains<br />
usually I had no money<br />
but i could smell the food<br />
everywhere<br />
and maybe Paul would pick me up<br />
at some random intersection<br />
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<br />Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-45522583720723392282012-05-28T05:35:00.001-07:002012-05-28T05:35:57.466-07:00get yer BYE BYE LAO WAI get yer RED ARROW SKY<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(KB) MINNEAPOLIS - A major gaffe which occurred somewhere in the conduit between the state chambers and Hennepin County has left the city of Minneapolis with a 7,400 percent energy surplus. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"But where will the Vikings play?" asks Ron Schlop, showing up in a team jersey and with a package of wieners. "As a taxpayer, this really ticks me off. I mean, we paid for a stadium, not this smoldering pile of crap."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Governor Dayton was also at the site today, apparently waiting for the game to begin. He had a cup of beer and a foam finger to cheer on his hometown team. "Isn't it wonderful?" he said, "Just a beautiful facility here. Bang-up job. Just beautiful. GO VIKES!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">State Comptroller, Nancy Titt, places blame on Hennepin County officials. "The money was allocated and passed the legislature and signed as a bill. That money was then transferred to the proper county officials and subsequently released from our control yet still mandated for public use. Whatever facility the city has constructed remains completely outside of our responsibility. Besides, Russ Brandt is a lying, dirty, lecherous slimeball!" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Minnesota Vikings are a National Football League franchise that hasn't won a game since November 27, 1994 when they outed Tampa Bay 2 - 0. </span></span><br />
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<i>Once on the road someone calls out your name. You pull over and take a piss but never turn your head. You're way out near the prison in nowhere, Nevada. Welcome home, Jack. May the desert lash your back. May the flying creatures shit upon you. May you rest on the sagebrush while the ancient sage of chinese thought sages you with his slutty repertoire of one-liners. Welcome back, Jack. Suck on some earth. Suck water out of a rock. May you call out from the plains, from a landscape in pain, from that great insurmountable pressure of emptiness. </i>Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-3375915528681117932011-11-15T11:43:00.000-08:002011-11-15T11:53:56.322-08:00LOSERVILLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fQC7vUktjJqRNIEtC4YZzf4BChUNYTeUvDIRKzb4CzNC3Aw3YeMfIHBmCwO_1seS5cijgYcALZk7Xp89bD6U18jtfaH3lJUfkPnASdskA8HdNXpDQO-Oh8PPVxJb4ssq6RZhDtF68lw/s1600/frazier_leslie487_381.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fQC7vUktjJqRNIEtC4YZzf4BChUNYTeUvDIRKzb4CzNC3Aw3YeMfIHBmCwO_1seS5cijgYcALZk7Xp89bD6U18jtfaH3lJUfkPnASdskA8HdNXpDQO-Oh8PPVxJb4ssq6RZhDtF68lw/s320/frazier_leslie487_381.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Vikings' Head Coach Leslie Frazier Actually Just Listening to Justin Bieber </span><br />
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(KB) GREEN BAY - It was another crushing loss for the Vikings last night at Lambeau Field, putting up only 7 points to the Packers' 114. Despite the team's mounting problems of ineptitude on both sides of the ball, laziness, penalty infractions, their very future in question and the arrest of seven of it's players for being degenerate neanderthals, an even newer concern arose on the sidelines last night in Green Bay: Head Coach Leslie Frazier's headset is not linked to his coaching network, but in fact a live stream of Justin Bieber. <br />
"When he told me we were gonna punt the ball in the last 20 seconds of the first half, I just knew his head was in the clouds again," says quarterback Christian Ponder. "I mean, punt the ball with 20 seconds left? Are you fucking stupid?" <br />
He's stupid alright, Christian. Crazy stupid for boy-wonder shiny pants.Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-11119947024401843602011-11-09T16:20:00.001-08:002012-03-02T11:34:10.917-08:00COMMERCE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Despite Economic "recession", Americans continue to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Spend Shit-Tons of Money on Worthless Crap</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqZ8B_fWxrAjc0MG1G8HXULFi8SyPd4OiHzt8hdU10IKH95RpCYEAeXZHZO7bPH978f4aleEIUS9s2z-MqqWfUzmSibNq1UqLy1lfLc-TFufjoRp3XhTOz04x1umMMXPDoNX5Jnw0hd9o/s1600/P1100911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqZ8B_fWxrAjc0MG1G8HXULFi8SyPd4OiHzt8hdU10IKH95RpCYEAeXZHZO7bPH978f4aleEIUS9s2z-MqqWfUzmSibNq1UqLy1lfLc-TFufjoRp3XhTOz04x1umMMXPDoNX5Jnw0hd9o/s320/P1100911.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>(KB) Los Angeles - Americans' pockets don't appear to be as empty as their souls, which they are consistently hurling consumer products into as an effort to satisfy their juvenile thirst for material luxuries and status affirmation.<br />
"It's striking behavior," says consumer analyst Connie Poon-Weippe, "considering that ninety percent of Americans are affording their lifestyle via complicated hierarchies of household debt."<br />
President Obama's administration has labeled the nation's current economic situation as a "dire financial recession coupled with a no-confidence investment outlook perhaps not seen since <i>Leave it to Beaver</i> was canceled."Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-43664323626000528582011-09-27T02:48:00.000-07:002011-09-27T02:48:38.662-07:00LEISURE<span style="font-size: x-large;">Handicapped Lead Way in Public Space Use</span><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">City's urban spaces remain grossly unused save the disabled crowd</span></em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydpLqqLI7KgKnNCOB1faNh1svUCrYso7fnWDN-AwfuZIHYiZ1BrYqb4yiUkRTzcPi-pzPCg_ctIqZySI30P2fTFwCWLebB-MOPq799xUMoIKKNLLXZX6IXX_MAv0L9il8WfXZJapdvZs/s1600/P1100017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydpLqqLI7KgKnNCOB1faNh1svUCrYso7fnWDN-AwfuZIHYiZ1BrYqb4yiUkRTzcPi-pzPCg_ctIqZySI30P2fTFwCWLebB-MOPq799xUMoIKKNLLXZX6IXX_MAv0L9il8WfXZJapdvZs/s200/P1100017.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>(KB) DES MOINES - In a new report issued by the Committee on Recreational Space Procurement, statistics reveal that Polk County parks and public spaces are only properly utilized by the disabled population. Proper use of these spaces is the committee's gauge on community demand for public spaces in Polk County.<br />
"Currently we're seeing gross under-use of our urban gardens here in Des Moines," says Marie Schopenskwat, a committee leader. "Unfortunately, proper use of public space does not cover teenagers copulating in our fountains after dark or white-collar criminal activity in the public restrooms." If it weren't for the handicapped, Schopenskwat says, the city's budget for public spaces would be terminated indefinitely. Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-43427741137982989892011-09-27T02:12:00.000-07:002011-09-27T02:21:24.367-07:00LIFESTYLE<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ma and I came across some Indians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It happened when we were looking to get on U.S. Highway 212 in Crow Agency, Montana. U.S. Highway 212 runs continuously from Cooked City to Edina. Some have called it "the Warrior Trail". Some have called it <em>the most beautiful route in America</em>. Some have called it "the highway". </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anmaalapammuua is the place where Crows mourned a war party that came home nearly vanquished.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Nearby, there now sits a laundromat called Ammaaiisshuuwuua. This is the town of Crow Agency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Near the laundromat, there's a spray-painted clapboard on the road that says "NDN Taco $4.20". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">At the end of the block there is an IGA store. My Ma was once told that IGA stands for Indian Grab Anything. </span><span style="font-family: Times;">In a back lot down the road, sitting in a bunch of yellow grass, there is the Little Big Horn College. We decided to turn around and get an NDN Taco. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The sister was behind a table that sat outside the side door of a house. She welcomed us to come and eat. Two brothers were sitting on a wooden picnic table in the yard. It was a nice yard because it was well shaded by very large trees. The trees were probably there way back when Custer got slain dead by some female warrior of the prairie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Gathering her supplies, the young sister prepared us one NDN taco. She had sent her brother to the IGA to get cheese. Meanwhile, she piled tomatoes, cooked hamburger and sour cream on top of a fry bread. My Ma and I asked the two gentlemen on the picnic table if they knew where the highway to Belle Fourche was. Then the kid came back from IGA with a block of velveeta.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">"That's not cheese!" the sister told him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">"It's all they had!" he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The gentlemen did not know of a highway to Belle Fourche. I asked them if they knew where the 212 was. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">"Oh, the highway!" one said. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">"The highway," said the other. "You should go back on the interstate, then get off the interstate at the next exit. That is the highway. It is only across the river." The Little Big Horn River.</span><br />
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<div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">25 REASONS MINNESOTANS SHOULD BE SELF-CRITICAL<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">For City Pages’ constant tradition of patting it’s own state on the back, here are <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">twenty-five reasons why it should not be taken to such arm-dislocating levels.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">25.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oregon Trail was an anglo-centric video game masked as an educational tool, which encouraged a whole generation of institutional videots into society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">24.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minnesota is the most corporate state in the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Best Buy to General Mills to Target, they are doing their best to keep the free market suppressed and the corporatocracy your lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bragging about your gay population is like bragging about gas stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No shit, they’re everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hipsters are obnoxious twats who act poor yet pay five to ten dollars for a beer brewed less than a mile away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though you have one, single, snazzy light rail line, it has gone bankrupt and is still a far cry from being comprehensive public<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob Dylan and the Coen Bros left Minnesota for a reason - to get the hell away from that tone-deaf, purple freak. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your obsession with all things deep-fried is the reason why you’re a stagnant sea of fat-assed, wobbling weeble-people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michelle Bachmann is a mere piss in Lake Superior compared to all the loony-toon, faith-based nut jobs running around the place. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t go one week without reading about a murder, rape, hate-crime, abduction or pedophile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that’s what I call <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minnesota Nice</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your kind, open doors toward the world’s refugees is explained as an abuse of cheap labor and the welcome is overshadowed by your indifference toward them once they’ve arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your so-called “green bikes” are only green by color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are credit-card activated, government paid rip-off rides that appeal only to suckers and Mayor R.T. Rybak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somebody is getting a free ride off those pieces of shit but it certainly ain’t you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s nothing like a world-class performing arts center like the Guthrie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except of course the fact that it is completely marred from view by the ugliest parking garage in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile down the street, the historic Southern Theatre crumbles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your state capitol is dwarfed by a house of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s hardly a separation between the two and there’s no question as to who calls the shots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Norm Coleman and Denny Hecker! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hamm’s and Schmidt’s took off to operate in a place without the tax-happy morality mafia - a nearby state where adults can purchase and enjoy a cold beer at a fair price and at any fucking time they choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">10. 3M has been poisoning your precious waters for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skin disease or nervous damage anyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mayo Clinic will gladly experiment on you in exchange for your house.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any town outside of the immediate twin cities metro area could petition for an official name change to “Redneck City” or “Dipshit-In-A-Pickup Central”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts has one of the greatest collections in the world, yet the only thing that gets you wet is the trash down at the Walker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Minnesota Nice” is a good term to refer to your meekish, Lutheran, color-by-number types who are intellectually unable to refuse being stomped on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could seriously piss in their ears and tell them it’s raining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is the Mississippi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> the longest river in the country, it is so polluted with sewage, waste, chemicals and dead bodies that a quick swim would quickly turn you into your favorite gimmick:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a zombie. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing says punk rock like a show at First Avenue after purchasing a parking space with your credit card and paying your fair share of a new sports stadium via food & drink tax. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Minnesota State Fair should be renamed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Minnesota Wallet Gouging</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the DJs at The Current; just admit it, some songs are total shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quit praising them at the cost of your own credibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Show some professional criticism you goddamn groupies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4. Your pro teams make billions off your fanaticism; they suck ass on the field, and then ask you to pick up the bill for their new stadiums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You gladly throw your money into their bottomless pit and simultaneously bitch about light-rail expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“NO POLITICS IN MY BAR!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The University of Minnesota’s logo is an upside-down “W”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hahahahahahaha!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welcome to the land of 10,000 rules!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</div><!--EndFragment-->Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-44167103539675755362011-09-01T15:06:00.000-07:002011-09-01T15:09:54.047-07:00THE ARTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoVYrilBxrBefZsIeiQn4UxcZ7Iik5zVUC7Tzuu8GR5iIA1s8ipqiqdLQnfNEmCddnN6yIQvhYTPMtnQ_hgTtqBG1BDhAhp5jhyphenhyphenk0dk5mDNkD-zTwT7Dz7laehIh9divpJmYstbKRQsk/s1600/red+arrow+sky+script.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoVYrilBxrBefZsIeiQn4UxcZ7Iik5zVUC7Tzuu8GR5iIA1s8ipqiqdLQnfNEmCddnN6yIQvhYTPMtnQ_hgTtqBG1BDhAhp5jhyphenhyphenk0dk5mDNkD-zTwT7Dz7laehIh9divpJmYstbKRQsk/s640/red+arrow+sky+script.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> DEBUT ALBUM COMING FALL 2011</span><br />
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Knesebeck Bleibtreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816774613433054304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993649937184788842.post-62665708405280951622011-09-01T01:33:00.000-07:002011-10-04T14:34:59.488-07:00POETRY<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark / <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ma Ke</i> / </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">马克</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In eight months I met him maybe five times</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was the other white guy in town</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No, he had a white roommate too</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the roommate was a closeted homosexual</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A closeted drinker too</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This roommate had a wall-sized collection of video pornography</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He would sit there in Pingdingshan and watch Hollywood blondes get banged </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">25,000 miles away and probably 15 years after</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">like a hostage taken by his own collection </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was a closeted human being</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wanna get to Mark</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">but this roommate character</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was a real piece of work</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He would fly out to southern cities</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">on his weekends</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To meet so-called girls that he’d met on the internet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">as if our town hadn't any</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was almost more interesting than Mark, actually</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What was his name? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was a gay name, whatever it was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark and I spent our handful of evenings in the 2046 bar</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark never had money</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was a cheap ass and I bought most of his drinks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Despite the owner’s wishes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the owner figured I was helping my countryman out </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So it was ok</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until Mark would get shit-faced and fall off his stool</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At that point, his fellow countryman </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">was solely in charge of getting him home</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nobody else wanted to carry that fatass down the stairs </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">to a taxi</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At some point </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I became the only person to socialize with him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After he wore out his welcome</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Playing drinking games with the locals</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And the neighborhood cop who played ping pong with him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And the local TV station jerks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who would always bring in some talent chick</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some prima donna lush who teased the hell out of everyone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m actually glad he gave her so much trouble</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the bar owner fucked them all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark was from Saint Louis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Missouri</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He had serious emotional attachments to American music</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I saw him cry when we were listening to Otis Redding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He had a scar on his brow from a Pakistani in Turkey</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who attacked him with a beer bottle</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Totally Unprovoked,” Mark said</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in his eternal slur</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in his trademark disconnect of subject and predicate </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">always finding something unintelligible to put between them</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And when I bought his poor ass a harmonica</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He played that thing like he was talking through it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like it was his silver little dictionary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pocket translator</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You know, that metaphorical type shit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He would punctuate his statements and elongate his questions with that goddamn thing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">His gay roommate had told me once that it drove him insane</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Why did you ever buy him that stupid thing?” he said. “he plays the fucker from dawn ‘til dusk. It wakes me up in the morning.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I thought Mark played well</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Probably because he wasn’t so good at talking</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark wasn’t just drunk, but all tanked out on painkillers too</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He’d acquired them from a female in the pharmacy below his house</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So he was always falling over</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">first a slow lean, then a panicked look, then a tumble over a curb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">then his shoe flying off in one direction</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">He was always missing one of his flip flops</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark. His chinese name was </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">马克</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ma Ke</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We laughed our asses off when he wasn’t around</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ok, I’m coming to the point</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I actually miss the guy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I hear Jeff Buckley</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Or Otis Redding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">sittin’ on the dock of the bay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He is the Midwesterner that I rate all other Midwesterners on</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once I got really plastered in the 2046</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The boss man wouldn’t let me play my guitar anymore</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I invaded the stage </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While some guys were singing their karaoke</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started inventing my own chinese pop song</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I must have used the word for “homosexual” about 20 times</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some Chinese brothers came up to depose me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started swinging</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God knows what at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was taken down in a matter of seconds</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was lucky they adored me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But I had crossed the line</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last time I saw Mark</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He had the boss call me to get me down there</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mark had lost his phone down a toilet </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On day one</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But this day he was really broken up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A girl he had gone on a date with</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Threw him off</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He had been flirting with her best friend online</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sexual talk and such</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not having the slightest clue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But he was really broken down</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was near the end of our contracts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We’d worn our bodies down quite a lot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On a diet of mutton, bread and beer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, he perked up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He spoke as clear and concise as I’d ever heard him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“So I heard you started throwing punches the other night,” he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I did?” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">It was the first time anyone had brought it up with me</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> “It sounded really pathetic, man.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"> That’s what he told me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"> Then he played his harmonica</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Sieverts' latest mansion sits directly in front of Elephant-</div><div style="text-align: left;">head Mountain outside of Livingston. </div></td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(KB) BILLINGS, MT - With land prices at a ten-year low, Alan Sieverts has been buying up scenic lots across the state in an on-going effort to build a giant home on each vista for all passers-by to see.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "I grew up in a middle-class suburban area where every home kind of looked the same," he says. "What I'm trying to do here is build several homes in front of several different Montana peaks to emphasize my wealth over others'." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Sieverts arrived in Montana in 2007, shortly after selling off his marketing company in San Francisco for around seven gazillion dollars. He came to Montana because he'd seen the state's vast, sweeping scenery in his favorite movie, <i>The Horse Ejaculator</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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