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Having a Tedad Concrete in STL

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Ozomatli

... and a floating kid at the Alameda County Fair

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Fire Arts Festival

The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival began last night in Oakland.

           
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Tour D'Oakland

Hey you fixie riding hipsters! I've seen you're videos and they're lame. Here's a Scraper Bike style refresher.

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Oakland! - a travel video by Killing My Lobster

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OAK > PDX

Headed toward Portland
 
Garry - thanks for the ShakeItPhoto recommend

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cinco de mayo's on tuesday

buenas tardes amigo,
hola my good friend.
cinco de mayo's on tuesday,
and I hoped we'd see each other again.
- ween

Buenas Tardes Amigo by Ween  
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I am an animal communicator

From a list -

Request for advice:
I am currently working in my basement (office/playroom) and I can hear what I think is RATS!!!! There is squeaking in the wall, it may even be BABY RATS! What do I do? Let them live there? Is this normal? Do I get rid of them? If I poison them, will they die in my wall and stink for ever?
YUCK YUCK YUCK. HELP!

A response:
I work with all kinds of animals, both the kinds you "want" and the kind you do not. I am an animal communicator and have worked with gophers, ants, fleas, as well as pets and wildlife. Please let me know if I can be of service to you.

Here is a testimonial from one of my clients:
"I was so angry with the gophers in my yard, eating my newly planted flowers that I felt like the guy in the movie Caddy Shack. I hired the Animal Communicator Barbara Samuelson to get rid of these varmits. After her having only one consultation with my underground co-habitors, Barbara was able to tell me what was going on exactly and my entire attitude shifted. I now see the gophers' perspective, their activity has changed and we now have peace. I am very grateful for this service and understanding. I highly recommend her for any animal situation that is causing frustration. She is offering a great service, and is very professional. "

www.barbarascamera.com

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Music for elephants? "Well, if they're young, I accept"

From The Composers Datebook -

Late in 1941, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was living in Hollywood -- at 1260 North Wetherly Drive, to be precise.

Notoriously unflappable, and eminently practical when it came to commissions, Stravinsky apparently did not even bat an eye when he received a phone call from the choreographer Georges Balanchine with an offer from Barnum's Circus to write a short musical work for a ballet involving elephants. Again, to be precise, for Barnum's star elephant ballerina, named Modoc, who would be accompanied by fifty other elephants and dancers, all in tutus.


"For what?" Stravinsky asked.
"For elephants" said Balanchine.
"How many?" countered Stravinsky.
"A lot," replied Balanchine
"How old?" asked Stravinsky
"Young," assured Balanchine.
"Well, if they're young, I accept," concluded Stravinsky.

Stravinsky's work, entitled "Circus Polka" had its debut at Madison Square Gardens in New York by the Barnum Circus, and was performed by what Stravinsky once called their "respectable quadrupeds" some 400 times.

Stravinsky then arranged his "Circus Polka" for symphony orchestra, and conducted the premiere of that version (minus the elephants) with the Boston Symphony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on today's date in 1944.



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Squirrels are vicious

I came up the stairs to my house yesterday and a squirrel jumped out of the whole it made in my pumpkin. Poor pumpkin didn't have a chance. It just sat there while slowly being evicerated.
 
I teared up a little thinking about the pumpkin seeds that I won't be able to roast.
 
RIP little orange buddy

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