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Couple of 4th of July HTTP Express Links. Tampa Rail is quiet when the office cubicles are empty (whistle).

My latest web project didn’t do too badly on launch. It’s garnered a teeny weeny bit of media attention, which helped reinforce my notion I’ve got a potential winner on my hands.

Here’s a sneak peak at my news story running in next week’s Creative Loafing:
Don Kobasky is losing sleep over recycling.
The St. Petersburg resident lives across the street from one of the city’s 22 drop-off recycling centers, and from sunrise to well after sunset, he hears the crash of glass.
“There’s nothing worse than working 10 to [...]

One year ago on Rays Index we had hit a new low as a Rays’ fan.

The Professor’s New Cap [Rays Index]

We have ourselves some weather action, folks! Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic, approximately 4 gagillion miles away from Florida — but moving west. If the forecast track is to be believed, Massachusetts could be wiped off the map as early as July 20th.
For the moment, those of us manning the CL 4000 [...]

Does anyone have an idea what the Tampa Bay Lightning is trying to do with the Tampa Bay Lightning? The team has asked Boyle to waive his no trade clause. This seem strange that an organization that went to so much trouble to resign Boyle now want to dump him.

Boyle has not waived his no trade clause. The Lightning have given Boyle’s agent George Bazos to talk to other teams. The San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Senators are said to be interested in Boyle. My question is who does the Lightning plan on replaceing Boyle as their number 1 defenseman? Hall of Famer Dennis Potvin considers the idea of trading Boyle stupid.

“Until something happens, I won’t believe it. I just don’t see where this will be a smart move.”

Anyone have any ideas what is going on?

You read the familiar lament when critics review a surefire blockbuster: “It doesn’t matter what I write; people will go see it anyway.”
That’s mostly true for Hollywood’s big-budget releases, but as Erik Lundegaard points out in making the case that we need movie critics, these arbiters of taste have a measurable effect on box-office receipts.
Using [...]

Have you ever seen Food Party? Uhm, just watch…

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yeah I know it’s Thursday, the internets don’t work on a holiday.
“Do you see a lion waiting at the bottom of a water-park slide? Do not use the slide.
Even in the convivial atmosphere of a sophisticated international vacation destination, do not try to speak “lion.” Roars and grumbles are part of a complicated tonal [...]

I’ve often said NBC should have put a question mark at the end of the title of America’s Got Talent. And no act proved that saying better Tuesday than Busty Heart, a stripper and strip club owner who has been…

It’s my considered opinion that Chris Rock is a funny motherfucker. Last night at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center he was definitely a funny motherfucker. OK, there’s my review of the show.
What follows is a few of his bits, so consider this a spoiler alert if you’re going to his show tonight.
Very early in [...]

When it comes to Tom Cruise, there really isn’t much left unsaid about our Once-Golden Boy of the 80s. You can celebrate 25 years of “Risky Business,” but then cringe when he jumps on Oprah’s couch and acts like a…

Tyson Gay, Olympic sprinter, has a problematic last name — at least for the anti-gay American Family Association, whose practice of replacing “gay” with   “homosexual” in news reports has led to some big fun. The ramifications of AFA’s filter problems are detailed on the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits blog, the Sleuth blog at washingtonpost.com and [...]

1. Museum of Fine Arts unveils Ansel Adams and the American West, which includes more than 60 works by the black-and-white master, his contemporaries, and those who followed in his creative footsteps. (Pictured at right: “Grass in Rain, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska,” by Ansel Adams, 1948. ©The Trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights [...]

Matt Stout is a reporter for the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin. He was following the UConn basketball team for the Final Four, and gave his blog readers some Tampa Tidbits on his Matt’s UConn Men’s Basketball Blog:
downtown Tampa seems relatively clean and safe (My hotel is about a mile away from where myself and some [...]