Salt City Sinner

Posted on 6/13/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Here in Salt City, temperatures are on the rise, and the sun is aggressively radiant - so much so that driving East in the morning or West in the evening is an exercise in driving blind. Things are popping up everywhere (both in terms of greenery and continued political discontent )! Not long ago, I posted about my plot in Sugar House Community Gardens. When I planted and added my first soil amendment (coconut husks, which absorb and re-release water in an almost magical way), my plot looked like this: Well, brothers and sisters, feast your eyes: Thai basil, radishes, beets, onions, bok choi, mystery beans, peppers, Swiss chard, amaranth - you name it, I'm growing it. My bok choi, which I have had to pinch five or six generations of flowers off of to encourage leafy growth, is going NUTS (as are my onions): I even have one winter squash plant that I might have to trellis eventually. I also have the mystery bean...

Posted on 6/1/2012 by the Salt City Sinner WARNING: CONTENTS ARE ABSOLUTELY REAL NEWS STORIES, AND ARE VERY DISTURBING AND VIOLENT. Z-Day is here , Z-Day is real, and the epicenter is...Miami? New Jersey, maybe? Ach, so predictable! They're coming for you, Barbara Three stories from the East Coast. First, from Miami, the delightful case of  a naked man who a te most of the face of his victim before at least six police bullets finally brought him down: One man was shot to death by Miami police and another was left fighting for his life after he was attacked and his face allegedly half eaten , by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp, police said.   The bloodshed began about 2 P.M. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp...[An] officer approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued his assault, the officer shot h...

Posted on 5/30/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Mittens! After securing Texas and, thus, the 2012 Republican nomination for President of these United States, how does one kick it live and direct? The Daily dug up this delightful photo of a young Mitt Romney holding a gun to his head. Good  times! Well if you are Willard "Mitt" Romney, first you host a huge fundraiser in Las Vegas , where the big draw was prominent Birther and human incarnation of ugly, godsforsaken hubris and vanity Donald Trump. Then you release your own birth certificate , which has literally never been a political issue until Big Joe Farah and the boys at WND breathed unholy life into it like some kind of golem made of $h!t. Umm... online? In PDF form? Certified by the State of Hawaii? Then, the next day, you host another  white-collar, high-rolling fund-raiser at a luxurious estate with a bloodless, heartless CEO: With Democrats portraying Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch millionaire and ...

Posted on 5/29/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Self-styled "America's Toughest Sheriff," Joe Arpaio has set out on a lonely mission these days. Joe "Tough Guy" Arpaio, picking on prisoners. Isn't Fascism a blast? For starters, Joe "Tough Guy" Arpaio is well known for picking on the poor and imprisoned  In my household, growing up, we had a name for guys who love to pick on people already kicked down - bullies. Bullies and Fascism go together like a slice of lemon and a glass of refreshing water. Look how happy he is to make Maricopa County prisoners wear pink underwear! Why did he do such a thing, and why does he make most of his prisoners live in stifling tent cities  (which he, in his own psychopathic words, has described as "concentration camps" ) in one of the most hot and horrible climates in the United States? For Freedom, of course! American Fascists are all about Freedom! Arpaio is all about Freedom! Arpaio is a loa...

Posted 5/25/2012 by Gerald Long, some images by ViewFinder It's a small thing, to be sure, (only 7.11 ounces) but small things add up to big things, like big people for example. To be fair 7-Eleven, Inc. created “SlurpFree” day to debut its new Slurpee Lite™ Fanta Sugar-Free Mango flavor drinks which will provide its customer base with a healthier alternative to its line of sugar based frozen drinks. From this blogger's viewpoint however, 7-Eleven can and should do better. Let's look at the big picture: The key word here is “obesity” which describes a condition hugely different from that of being “overweight”. As any Wii dweeb such as myself can tell you Obesity” is determined by your Body Mass Index (BMI). A BMI of 25-30 means you're overweight. A BMI greater than 30 means you're “obese”. And if you think these numbers are painful to look at, wait until you see yourself in the mirror after your BMI tops 30. As the abov...

posted 5/23/2012 by the Salt City Sinner Gods darn it, I tried to ignore this story. I tried to ignore it on April 18 when Grant Morrison popped off about Batman in an in-depth feature on superheroes for Playboy . Quoth Grant: [Batman]s very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and in the sense that he's sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay...All these women fancy him and they wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn't care - he's more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid. First of all, consider the source of this statement from two angles. Angle one: Morrison is the most talented comic book writer of the last thirty years, and I'm including Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman (wr...

Posted 5/20/2012 by the Salt City Sinner HAIL to thee, Amun-Ra, Lord of the thrones of the earth, the oldest existence, ancient of heaven, support of all things;  Chief of the gods, lord of truth; father of the gods, maker of men and beasts and herbs; maker of all things above and below;  Deliverer of the sufferer and oppressed, judging the poor;  Lord of wisdom, lord of mercy; most loving, opener of every eye, source of joy, in whose goodness the gods rejoice, thou whose name is hidden.  Thou art the one, maker of all that is, the one; the only one; maker of gods and men; giving food to all.  Hail to thee, thou one with many heads; sleepless when all others sleep, adoration to thee.  Hail to thee from all creatures from every land, from the height of heaven, from the depth of the sea.  The spirits thou hast made extol thee, saying, welcome to thee, father of the fathers of the gods; we worship thy spirit which is in us. ...