New York Cabaret Law.

Listening to NPR earlier. Apparently in New York your club needs a particular liscence if dancing is going on inside of it. They had a guy who ran a bar that played live music. He would get tickets for people dancing.

Weird. For one, this is happening in NY. At the end of the story they started talking about Kevin Bacon's movie Footloose. Which had a wacko preacher trying to forbid dancing. (As I recall. Its been a while.) But that movie was set in some backward hick town. Not Manhatten. J'accuse!

Maybe NY is just too riddled with regulation that nothing can go on w/o some sort of beaureaucratic broo-ha-ha. The lawyer who is bringing the suit against the city on this once beat a law saying that certain places could only play sting or piano intruments. (IE no Jazz nonsense. This stuff came from the 20's apparently.....

Honesty is the best policy.

Denver seems to have it's fair share of homeless panhandlers. I usually ignore them, particularly the ones I see all the time. I do however sometimes give money to people who are outside a liquor store asking for change or a buck or two so they can get some booze.

Thank you Broncos.

The Bronco's beat Dallas on turkey day. Dallas is pretty much the one team I hope always loses. Good work team!

New Crimes

If and when I become dictator, the following types people will be summarily executed:

1. People who take to long to buy movie tickets.
2. Charity Muggers
3. People who yak like crazy on their cell phones on the bus.
4. People who write to the FCC bitching about Howard Stern.

French Employment Law.

One other thing I heard on NPR. They were talking about unemployment in France. I guess France has a law saying if you want to fire someone you have to go to the government and prove that you have a good reason. And then you have to give them some considerable severence. In consequence it seems that French companies don't hire people as much cause it's such a risk/burden. They get people to be 'interns' and they can pay them like 300 euros a month. And they can be interns for years.
Sounds like a shitty system to me.

State of the Movies.

I was just listening to NPR. Bob Mondello was talking about what's in store for the rest of the year movie-wise. Munich sounds like it could be pretty good and Brokeback Mountain sounds different. Its been a poor year for Hollywood I guess. For good reason in my opinion. Like half the movies are Spiderman/Batman/XMen/Fantastic four superhero movies and remakes of 70's TV shows like Charlies Angels and Dukes of Hazzard.

Well Put.

Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post wrote this in his column on 11/22/05:

"Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq."

Thats pretty much how I see it and alot of the people I talk to as well......

November Reviews

The French Connection (The book) - C
Jarhead (The book) - C+
Saw 2 - B+

Cool sites.

Here are some amusing web sites:
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
http://www.robotwisdom.com/
http://www.defamer.com/

Paris is Burning.

I have been reading about the riots in France recently. Some of the articles have some rioters saying things like "We want jobs and respect." Yeah. Well I don't have any respect for people who burn shit just for the hell of it. France or CSU students. And I don't see how any of this is going to create jobs. But hey, your the ones who have to live there so do whatever the fuck you want, assholes.

Latest Vote.

We had a bunch of referendum to vote on last tuesday. The big ones were refs C and D. C would let the state keep some of the money it collected as opposed to refunding it as required by the previous referendum called TABOR - tax payers bill of rights. Anyway pretty much everything on the ballot passed except for D. Which is fine by me. If even the Republican govenor is a proponent of C, it's got some pretty wide support.
One thing that didn't have a lot of politician support was ref 100. It made marijuana possesion not a crime in Denver. At least by Denver law. Colorado and the U.S. Guvmnit still be hatin. I'm glad this went through. I don't know how much it could change anything though. If you walk around Civic Center park (between the state capitol and Denver city hall.) its has looked like a Hooverville and smelled like a Phish concert for a looong time.
Also notable is that all the headlines have been a variation - "Truly a mile HIGH city". HA!