Salt City Sinner

Photo Post: ViewFinder     Really... fireworks right next to the dry field?!  Come on people, this is ridiculous.

Post by: ViewFinder Is there really a question as to IF fireworks should be banned right now? Can you see the Southern Mountains?  I can't... I ALREADY CAN'T BREATHE!  AND YES, MY CAMERA IS FOCUSED... THE UNCLEAR PICTURE IS DUE TO THE HORRIBLE AIR QUALITY FROM ONE OF THE FIVE FIRES CURRENTLY BURNING IN NORTHERN UTAH!

posted 6/28/2012 by the Salt City Sinner As I have mentioned before, I am an avid subscriber to Orrin Hatch's email newsletter-cum-press releases. Old Roarin' Orrin isn't too happy about the outcome of the Affordable Care Act decision today, no sirree. He felt so violated by it, in fact, that he sent a special message out to his dearest friends (including, obviously, me). As Hatch said: I fashioned a reasonable reply to Senator Hatch. I'll let you know what I hear from the Mothership - I mean, Hatch's well-funded and now invisible campaign finance team.

(Posted by: ViewFinder) WTF- An abbreviation for What The FU*K! and/or Wasatch Techno Festival for which I was able to win two tickets to listening to a local radio station.  After a few weeks of anticipation and excitement... my friend and I arrived at the Saltair parking lot, drove through the dirt/gravel and were guided to a compact space where I was allowed to park my vehicle after paying $5.00  Immediately we knew that WE WERE TOTALLY OUT OF PLACE!  But I didn't care.  I was excited about the images I would be able to capture. Bass pounding music was immediately present as I opened the car door- we walked to the entrance area after passing several very young boys and girls.  To enter this event you are required to be 16- many appeared to be less than this but were attempting entry none the less. I had not ever attended anything like this- it was almost like a festival of scantily dressed girls wanting to someday be wearing nothing in public.  Many girls w

posted on 6/21/2012 by the Salt City Sinner In the near-perfect final scenes of Kill Bill: Vol. 2 , Bill (played by none other than stone-faced, living Easter Island statue David Carradine) holds court in his hacienda, and introduces his final monologue by saying, quite simply, "As you know, I am a great fan of comic books." I, too, am a great fan of comic books . But I am also a great fan of horror movies, especially the kind that have been inspired by the Netflix Insurgency. You see, time was, a horror movie that went straight to DVD was guaranteed to be of the babe-slashing, misogynistic, predictable "BOO!" variety. The major franchises were similarly hideous - let us not forget Jason X (AKA "Jason In Space"), which was odious but also so self-conscious of its odiousness that it attempted a brazen sort of postmodern tongue in cheek that fell flat as a rug. YEAH DUDE Thanks to Netflix's predator-drone marketing, a crop of what I've

Posted on 6/16/2012 by the Salt City Sinner I love my city. I love its weird blemishes and odd spots most of all. Any rube can stroll downtown and look at the Wells Fargo building or some such and be impressed. I'm more interested in the more esoteric elements of my city. For example, at the Granary District Street Fair yesterday, one could feel free to ogle the ladies of Salt Lake's rollerderby Amazons: The derby ladies were pumping out punk rock via a PA and skating this way and that. The fact that female roller-derby has taken off so much in SLC fills me with both joy and dread. Why the dread, you ask? Well, have you ever watched a roller-derby match? The festival took place in the so-called 'Granary District' of Salt Lake, at the intersection of 700 South and 400 West. There's obviously some kind of urban renovation going on there, since that area is mostly renowned for its beautiful urban decay. What you see there on the right i