The article mentions that Shak received a copy of Arpaio’s book along with a pair of pink underwear with the phrase ‘Go Joe’ on them. Do all inmates wear underwear with Arpaio’s name on them?

After enjoying mass transit in Europe I decided to get on a Phoenix bus for the first time.

I’ve heard terrible things about our bus system and I’m not in the position to argue these points. Fortunately I wasn’t in the position where I had to ask myself the unenviable question “How do I get to where I need to go?” I was looking to see where I could go.

Using ValleyMetro.org’s convenient trip planner, I took a 2 minute walk around the block and headed down to the The Orginal Hamburger Works for a beer.

Summary:

Distance: 8 miles.
Travel time: 15 minutes.
Time spent waiting for the bus: about 30 seconds.
Walking time to the stop: 2 minutes.
Odors on the bus: priceless

JUST kidding about the last bit. This is always a complaint I hear about mass transit. I think Americans are uniquely sensative to odor. It’s easier to wait out the time it takes to get used to the odor of cooperative travel than it is to avoid it.

Parting tip: The Original Hamburger Works has great burgers. Stop by on a Monday or Tuesday night for a beer, food, and some good company with the bartender Carla.

LoLo’s Chicken and Waffles:
10 West Yuma Street
Phoenix, AZ 85003

Here’s a good review:
LoLo’s Chicken and Waffles

From a New Times Article.

“One ex-patron of King’s describes the two-room watering hole as ‘a filthy place full of hardcore drunks’, where ‘fights break out regularly.’ This is true, some say, of virtually any downtown establishment boasting on its outdoor signs, ‘Cocktails/Package Liquors’ (of which there are plenty). At Pete’s Newsroom, on First Street south of Fillmore, a fallen soldier already lies passed out in the nearby parking lot at 5:15 — a sure sign of killer happy hour specials.”

Regular dive bar. This guy wrote a song about it.

Tee Pee Tap Room
And Bush is staying at the Royal Palms so watch the traffic around there early tomorrow morning!

This weekly gathering, inspired by the Society for Creative Anachronism, brings some aspects of a renaissance fair to the middle of the Encanto-Palmcroft neighborhood. Mostly just the fighting. :-)

I don’t know what else to say. Period dress, weaponry, fighting…..stop by the George and Dragon for a pint of Stella after the fight.

Valley News
Arizona Republic
East Valley Tribune
Phoenix New Times

Phoenix Community Links
Artlink
Phoenix Backpage
Phoenix Craigslist.org

Just a start. What other categories? Gov, sports, art, music?

(Didn’t have (make) time for a real post.)

:-)

Seymour Hersh – the journalist who first uncovered the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war is speaking at ASU’s gammage auditorium this evening at 7:30. Tickets can be acquired here:

Seymour Hersh Lecture @ ASU

And just heard about this one at 3:40 today:

International Institute for Sustainability Wrigley Lecture Series presents
Sir Crispin Tickell –

More information here: Phoenix Iraq War Protest