Distracted by sparkly objects

Marching for the Dream Act: march @ 3 p.m. Friday, May 23 on Eastern in front of Valley HS. Reason-based musings on using public transportation and, you know, changing your lifestyle because of rising gas prices. I really like NYT writer Andrew Martin’s food-related articles. And when I say food, I mean the food chain,…

Reaching out into the ether

So I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to talk about this on the blog, but I think it’s worth a shot because if anyone can offer me some tangible help … well, it would mean a lot. Recently, I found out my 35-year-old cousin has cancer. She’s always been in basically good health and…

New ‘PLAN’ for The Siren

Well, it’s big news for your humble Sin City Siren founder and editor. I have been offered a job as the new Southern Nevada director of PLAN (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada). I am excited to start on this new path in my life (later this month)! It is a journey that began with me…

Happy Friday: When Elephants Fly edition

Well kids, I’m heading out of town to The Last Frontier. Probably not going to have a lot of time for blogging so be patient with my lack of posts and if comments get trapped in limbo. Until then, enjoy this scene from one of my favorite movies: —E

New Green TV thing

So I caught the sneak peak of the new Planet Green channel on TLC last night. They previewed two shows: Wa$ted and Greenovate. Overall, I’m for the concept of more shows educating the public on going green, especially in the more light-hearted way of Wa$ted, which shows participants how out of control their carbon footprint…

Liquidation

Seems like a good time to air-out the old in-box, before these things fall off the desk completely … The Las Vegas water grab sucks. But this says it much better. The Clinton campaign is turning into Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail “black knight” scene — it’s just a flesh wound! Thanks Gleaner!…

Shopping for charity

You know how much I love it when you can do double-duty with your shopping dollars. If you are going to buy something anyway and can give a portion of that money to charity why wouldn’t you? So I’m always happy to spread the news of new ways to do just that. At nonprofitshoppingmall. com,…