Arkansas Times Blogs

For this one he got 2 cans of Spam, a six pack of Miller, and a loaf of Wonderbread. I've corrected spelling and grammar; all thoughts belong to Frank.

Lucky Charles got a warm place in the subway.

Been staying with him a few days. He keeps dogs. Motherfuckers stink but it's warm.

When you got the choice between breathing in dog piss or having your dick turn into an icicle, you gots to choose the dog piss every single time.
Cause that's just the way life is, a big ole' breath of warm dog piss and not a fucking thing you can do about it.
Lucky Charles gots a radio and I was listening to them stupid motherfuckers that put up them signs in Boston.

Them boys dumb but they ain't got nothing on the Boston police. Them some stupid motherfuckers.
You really think them terrorists gonna put a blinking sign on their bombs?

Ain't nobody stupid enough to believe that bullshit, cept maybe the Boston police.
I spent 2 years back in the 80s living in Boston. Shit hole town that gots nothing better to do than dig holes in the dirt and throw money into it.

Big Dig they called it. Big Motherfucking Mistake I call it.
And them Boston people ain't got no sympathy for the homeless.

They ignore us. Like we ain't there. Hell if them bombers wanted to blow apart Boston all they would have to do is make bombs into the shape of homeless people.

None of them motherfuckers would notice a damn thing.
WASHINGTON -- Comedian and radio talk show host Al Franken has begun calling Democratic members of Congress and prominent Minnesota Democrats to tell them he will definitely challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008, McClatchy Newspapers has learned.

On Monday, Franken announced that he was quitting his radio show on Feb. 14, and he told his audience that they'd be the first to know of his decision. But Franken has been working the phones in recent days, telling his political friends he's ready to declare his candidacy.

McClatchy Newspapers confirmed Wednesday that Franken made calls to at least two members of the Minnesota congressional delegation in Washington to break the news. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity, not wanting to pre-empt Franken's announcement.
"From his voice to my ears, he's running," said one House member, who relayed the remark via his press secretary.

"I can tell you we got one of those calls," said a top-ranked aide for another House member.
Franken declined to be interviewed.
"He's not going to comment on his private conversations," said Andy Barr, his spokesman.

But he added that Franken has "made no secret" of his interest in Coleman's seat.
No other Democrats have announced plans to challenge Coleman, who's expected to be among the most vulnerable GOP incumbents next year.
Franken, who grew up in St.

Louis Park, Minn., achieved fame in New York as a comedy writer for NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" and went on to become a best-selling author. He moved his radio show to Minneapolis last year and has become increasingly active in Minnesota and national politics.

His Midwest Values political action committee raised more than $1.1 million and he distributed checks of $10,000 each last year to Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Claire McKaskill of Missouri and Minnesota Rep.

Tim Walz, and he gave smaller amounts to dozens of other national and state candidates.
Coleman has had little to say about Franken, but in an interview last year he said he expected him to be "a very strong voice for the far left" and a strong fundraiser. Republicans will try to exploit Franken's ties to Hollywood: Contributors to his political action committee included Barbra Streisand, Phil Donahue, Larry Hagman and Norman Lear from the entertainment industry.

That list of contributors prompted Coleman to say that Franken "obviously has a sense of humor" by calling his PAC Midwest Values.
"Hollywood values aren't Midwest," Coleman said, "and the money isn't Midwest."
Franken expects his years in New York to be an issue in the campaign but has had a ready line as he promotes himself to Minnesota audiences: "If I do run against Norm Coleman in '08, I'll be the only New York Jew in the race who actually grew up in Minnesota.

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Coleman grew up in New York and moved to Minnesota as an adult.
Editor's Note - Homeless Frank is an individual who lives in front of the building where I work. After the 10th time he asked for change I told him I'd give him food in return for a blog entry.

He's agreed and here's the results of his first labor. For this entry I paid him 2 cans of beanie weenies and a six pack of Miller. Beyond correcting his spelling, all thoughts belong to Frank.

Motherfucking stars and shit..burning my eyes.

Paris Hilton and her goddamn dog. I read. I see her looking out at me.

Famous for what? Hitler was famous. He had a goddamn dog too.

She got a drooping eye. Don't no one else notice that? Looks like she got hit in the head with a frying pan.

How the fuck can you be popular looking like you just got hit by your man? I knew a women got hit in the head had an eye like that. She got hit in the face with a beer bottle though.

Maybe she should start being famous too.

Bookstore around the corner throws out those rag magazines and I use them. Warm you up.

Words and paper will if you stuff them in your shirt. But Paris is always on that slick paper. Glossy.

Can't even use her to keep warm. I'll wipe my ass with Paris Hilton. That's all she's good for.

Wiping ass.

[I think my vote is exploitive, but I'm not sure. YGA]
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 16:42:40
How long is this going to take?

"That's the posture I have to look at?"
That's what he said when I was sittin' up straight.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:25:58

What's in a dame?

If this is all, a suicide is in this dame's future.

JC, I've avoided you for a long time now. You've shown me your short, short, short fuse and, frankly, I'm scared of you.

But, seriously. Enough.
Let's talk.

You're older than me, but I'm guessing that the D-G thinks I'm just the sort of young woman who would appreciate a column like yours. Ask them to rethink that. If what's in a dame is worrying over junk drawers, men, and clothes, really do just kill me now.

Don't you have relationships with your family? Anything ever happen at work? Do you have friends?

Fears? Hopes? Do you give a shit about anything that you didn't find in some internet search that, really, we can tell you don't care about anyway?

Your column is demeaning to women. You owe us an apology. And a ray of hope.

Work harder. Write better. And don't bother e-mailing me some smart ass response.

You're not clever enough to pull it off.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:21:48

D-G? That horse has been dead for days.

Ferfucksake. Enough about Sundance and Robert Redford and HoundDog. You've been titlting at windwills or maybe just pissing in the wind, and now because the movie has bad reviews you write it up like it's a victory for you?

HAHAHAHA.
Friday, January 19, 2007 - 05:25:52

I have mixed feelings about Borat, but I definately love the 30-second bunnies.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 06:19:11
I've mentioned it before, but keep checking back at , the Matson Films site about the upcoming movie about the AR music scene.

The timeline is great, as is all the media. These are the people I ran with for years, but I don't seem to have even made it into a photo. That's probably for the best.

Check out the music and the trailer. Richard Matson's done a great job. Can't wait to see the film.

I recently found my Towncraft t-shirt from when the album came out (the film's title is based in part on an album put out locally of local bands, called Towncraft). It almost fits. I'll be back in it by the time the film plays here.

I hope.
Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 05:34:24

Also from the NYT, concerning new graduation requirements

This is largely about Oregon, but Arkansas comes up, so I include it. The entire article after the jump.

The pieece on Arkansas here:

At least seven states have ''opt-out'' provisions for students whose parents sign a waiver excusing them from the requirements, said Matt Gandal, executive vice president of Achieve, Inc., a Washington, D.C.

-based nonprofit working on raising state education standards. Such ''opt-out'' clauses are not without controversy, he said.

''In Arkansas, where this will be the first year it counted for the freshmen, 10 percent opted out,'' Gandal said.

''That was higher than they liked, and now there's debate about whether to do away with the opt-out clause.''

Even with the more flexible requirements and the opt-out clauses, the proposals have upset some in rural school districts that already have difficulty attracting qualified science and math teachers and wonder who will teach the extra classes.

The opt-out clause isn't doing any student any favors.

by short cuts in their education.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 08:06:23

Money Making Hobbies: Why so cynical? I'm gonna get rich!

From

The Get Rich Slowly blog has scans from a 1938 book called Money Making Hobbies. The projects in them are funny, but I doubt anyone made a dime after reading this book.



Making Corrugated Cardboard Animals mdash; Surrealists love these animals because they are totally unlike any that ever trod the earth, and yet they look enough like certain species to be recognizable. All that you need to make them with is a little imagination, a few strips of corrugated cardboard which is not too heavy and is smooth on one side and corrugated on the other, and some strands of pulled crape for the hair, the heads, and the tails.



Things You Can Make of Cellophane
There are a hundred or more things that you can make of cellophane, the outstanding ones of which are:

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 07:36:22
Would you consider, please, hiring someone single and young-ish to write for your Family section?

I don't mean me. . And they have families.

And opinions about family. And ideas about family. And if you chose the right person, they wouldn't have been brainwashed by Hallmark like the two you run on the front of every Wednesday's section and someone might actually read the column--you know?

it would have the potential to be interesting. Not like what you're doing now. If you have to take baby steps, find a married couple with no kids.

Your idea of what family is just seems to limited and so small that I would consider paying not to read about it. That's how bad it is.
And that syndicated woman who tells people whethere to dump their boyfriends or not does not count.

Just stop being so boring on the topic.