It is a rare occasion that a dish in cville almost succeeds in bringing me “back” to a country I have visited, and surprisingly I can thank Mono Loco this month for making it happen. Not too hungry the other night, but accompanying a friend of mine for dinner, I decided on trying the grilled corn appetizer, a new item (at least since the last time we let crazy monkeys cook for us) on the Mono Loco menu.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up for your week in review.
We got villains dissing on wine bars, gunshots at the Outback and some Grecian food. Don’t forget to stop around back to sample our smelly PR move, celebrity wannabies, and your favorite musical acts. When you leave, grab the gift bag– it’s full of tats, lawsuits, and monkey sex. Enjoy!
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From NBC 29’s report, Hot Wheels: Vehicle Theft:
“There you go, right there; keys sitting right there in the console. A lot of car thefts could be prevented if people didn’t leave the keys in them,” he said.
How hard is it to carry your teeny-tiny keys inside a store with you? Who are these people? I want to hear an amazing argument for leaving your keys visible in your windshield and your doors unlocked.
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If Miss Manners were here, she would bitch-slap this city for the misconduct I witnessed this weekend!
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Has anyone read Facebook’s Privacy Policy or their Terms? It’s really scary actually. So long as you have pictures on the site, the terms state:
By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
So, you post a picture of yourself on Facebook. Two years down the road you get famous for that star role in the movie and Facebook sells your waste-face party pictures to People Mag? Are you kidding me?
That’s bs. I want to take my pictures off Facebook now. That’s messed up if you ask me. Be careful people. It’s not just a privacy issue. You deserve the money for those pictures. It was you after all.
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I’m gonna start doing a wrapup of the week on Saturdays or Sundays. If you guys like this kind of a thing, let me know. If not, then I will stop.
Monday:
New Jersey-Ites call Bodo’s everything bagels “trash bagels.” [Trash Bag Hell]
Freaky Weather Happens [Not a Record]
Lilith, as usual, knows the scenes inside out [Weekend Review]
Gobbler asks about 29N’s for Lease Signs [Why are they there?]
Thor and Lilith answer some questions from a hot date [Thor & Lilith]
First friday’s anyone [It’s cool]
What is the worst music video every [This one?]
Police car hits wheelchairer [with Fergie on the radio]
Tuesday
Should smoking be banned in restaurants? [Great debate here]
Our review of Blue Mountain Brewery [It’s awesome.]
Popo’s screaming past L&C [no one knows why, except for the passing wheelchair gang]
Wednesday
Albemarle police make it to the front page of viral video sites [Break It]
Monticello and the Virginia Encyclopedia: Are they missing the modern train [1 & 2]
All about relationships [Parlie asks, LaGrape answers with some amazing stats]
Wine party at Crush [24th of January, baby]
Thursday
Vote for the Best Pictures from our Readers [HERE]
We take a look around the C-Ville Blog O Sphere [Cooler than us]
We get some pictures of the Bamboo House [Taxidermy anyone?]
On Being A DJ [a real look at the truths of DJing for the public]
Lilith’s infamous awkward conversations for your hot date [this time it’s about Sex]
Cults in Charlottesville [for real, the koolaid is good]
Friday
Will 2007 be an amazing wine vintage [we hope so]
Silmo’s looking for some hotties to arm wrestle [winners get eternal fame]
Distract yourself at work [2G1C, again]
Oy asks “does having sex with your clone constitute incest or masturbation” [there still is no consensus]
We hope you all had great weekends [preview & your assignment]
Saturday
Wahooptie [phatness]
Popos hauling [Big GULP]
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What follows are two arguments by belmont yo and Uva LaGrape, respectively, detailing the less obvious aspects of being a DJ that most people take for granted. Enjoy. [Edited for continuity and content by lilith and authors.]
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[Written by Uva LaGrape]
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Wanna know what a grad student in Nerd Studies does on her time off? Research!
This is not at all scientific, but I’ve got tables of the gender/age breakdowns of the online daters in Cville as of January 6, 2008. Do with it what you will. All geographic radii were set to within 25 miles of 22902, except in the case of Yahoo Personals, which just had a near Charlottesville designation that reached all the way to Harrisonburg.
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–Like Newsies, but with food. I’m trying out the name. You like? You know the drill…
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