Desert Life: Hidden Beauty
February 15th, 2008
Coachella Valley Preserve, California — Love it or hate it, the desert does hold some beautiful surprises.
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Desert Life: Oh Noes!
February 11th, 2008
Desert Hot Springs, California — You know that the local economy is in the pooper when the Hootenanny Bargain Barn has to close their doors!
Desert Life: Inventive Littering
February 11th, 2008
Palm Desert, California — Ah, nature, isn’t it grand? On my way to work the other day, I was enjoying the clear blue skies, warm sunlight, green trees with their Panda Express Trash blossoms….. wait, what?
What the hell is this? Someone tell me, what the hell is this. Why did someone in the Coachella Valley deem it necessary to go out of their way to not only litter, but to stuff their trash between the branches of a small tree in the mall parking lot? Was it not enough to just set it down on the ground, they had to decorate our foliage too? And what more, couldn’t they have even thrown their trash into a receptacle that is usually found outside the doors of the mall? Better yet, how about the myriad of trash cans found throughout the mall to ensure the exact opposite of what I found.
Desert Life: Vandalism Isn’t Keen
February 8th, 2008
This sort of stupidity seems to be spreading across the Desert. Why?
Desert Life: Super Monday
February 4th, 2008
Palm Springs, California — Politics is a game of ephemera. What made sense in the 2004 election cycle is dismissed as utter nonsense now, and what was there one day is gone the next - sometimes quite literally, as was the case with these Barack Obama campaign signs at the corner of Highway 111 and Gene Autry Trail. I snapped a photo of them as the sun was setting on Friday, and by Monday morning, they had been removed. Forcibly. The metal stakes were still in the ground, indicating that whoever removed them was not commissioned by the city.
I don’t want to say Hillary Clinton supporters are a bit touchy right now about Barack “Usurper to the throne” Obama, but the perpetrator probably didn’t have a strong ideological allegiance to Mitt Romney. Hell, Mitt Romney doesn’t have a strong ideological allegiance to anything, unless you include raw, throbbing power.
The media is fond of saying California votes tomorrow, but in truth, we’ve been voting for some time now via mail-in ballots. The early votes will probably skew towards Hillary Clinton, which is why sometimes it is better to fulfill the California “slacker” archetype and put things off until the last possible moment. All the anti-dynasts can do now is hold their breath and pretend Hillary Clinton didn’t just cry before a big election in which the odds are not in her favor again. I try not to be cynical, but if she bawls for the cameras on November 3, 2008 there’s a definite pattern emerging.
Re:Generator will be blogging late into the night on SUPER DUPER MOTHERFUCKING TIZIGHT Y’ALL TUESDAEG because it’s our duty as politically aware citizens, and some of us are working late. We might as well make the most of it, especially since we went out of our way to talk about sports and crack sex jokes the day before the bloodbath. The things we do for our readers.