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Marijuana Field found on Google Maps

Posted in Culture with tags , , , on Saturday, January 31, 2009 by Tim Althaus

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According to a news article that I found on Digg the Swizz Government found a “pot” farm buy using Google Earth. Apparently the bust yielded 1.2 tons of Marijuana and valuables and cash worth over $780,000. Personally I think this is absolutely insane. Is there anything you can really hide from Google these days? I mean yeah it’s a cool feature that you can find things via satellite, but it’s a little crazy. Granted these guys were kind of dumb just growing weed in the middle of a cornfield, but that’s not the principle of the matter at hand.

Apparently authorities found the marijuana field which was just about two acres hidden amongst a field of corn. According to the article they were looking for the address of two men that were supposively involved with the drug ring, and they stumbled upon this field of “green acres”. This group of people have apparently sold somewhere near seven tons of marijuana in the last 5 years.

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Second Supper Issue 147, Hollywood Dreams 

Posted in Culture with tags , , , , , , on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Tim Althaus

second-supper-147-cover In this issue of the Second Supper we explore the lights and glamour of the movies in Hollywood. In this issue you will find of course the usual articles (Top 7, Social Networking, College Sucks & Y Marks the Spot), but you will also find articles that have to do with movies because the people at the Second Supper know you love them.

The first movie related article you will notice is the movie quote quiz. I must admit that some of these are actually pretty tough, I went through them and could only get a few of them at first glance. Amber Miller also makes a great point about which gender’s skin you tend to see more in movies, and she takes a pretty in depth look at the issue. There is also an interview with Joan Juster an independent film maker from San Francisco (director and producer of Alaska Far Away) about the content of her movie as well as the process of making it. You can also read an overview of the Frozen River Film Festival by Adam Bissen.

Be sure to also look towards the back of the issue because you will also get your normal assortment of crossword puzzles, reviews, comics and mazes. Another quality issue from the quality alternative newspaper from the Coulee Region area. To read this issue and past issues of the Second Supper go to www.secondsupper.com or check them out at www.myspace.com/secondsupper.

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Che premieres tomorrow at the Uptown Theatre

Posted in Culture with tags , , , , , , on Thursday, January 15, 2009 by Ryan Buege

After over three years and $65 million spent on the production of Steven Soderbergh’s epic biopic about the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the critically divisive movie will finally make a debut on Minnesota screens tomorrow at the Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis. The epic 4-hour, 2-part film starring Benicio del Toro apparently plays much like a diary and serves as a very accurate, documentary-like depiction of the motivations that fueled this leader, teacher, fighter, and eternal symbol of human rights and protest. Rightfully so, as the script was actually adapted from Guevara’s own diaries. The first part of the film, “The Argentine”, is taken from “Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War” (detailing the birth of the Cuban revoltuion and eventual overthrow of the Batista government), and second segment, called “Guerilla” (covering Che’s ill-fated continuation of the Latin American Revolution in Bolivia) is taken from his “Bolivian Diary”.  Needless to say, I’m pretty excited to see if these guys were able to make a movie that lives up to the monumental image of Che that I hold in my head. ..well, Del Toro still has yet to let me down, so I’m very optimistic.

Che will be shown in its entirety at the Uptown Theatre for only one week before it is officially released as a seperate features for individual viewing. Click here for more information on the showing  and watch the trailer below:

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The Second Supper, Your Local Press News

Posted in Culture, Media with tags , , , , on Friday, January 9, 2009 by Tim Althaus

second-super-2 I want to tell all of you out there about an alternative newspaper called the Second Supper that is distributed in my area of residence. Most of the people that post on this blog know about it, but those of you readers out there that aren’t from our area (La Crosse, Coulee Region area) probably don’t know about it. They write about a variety of issues and have regularly syndicated columns (“Smock Talk”, “College Sucks” & “Y Marks the Spot”), as well as introspective features such as “Social Networking” and funny editorials like “The Top 5”. There are also reviews of music, beer, albums & books. Many of you may be saying, “Well Tim, that’s fine and dandy, but we don’t live in your area so we can’t read The Second Supper.” That is where you would be wrong.

The Second Supper has their own website on the Internet where you are able to view the most recent issue of the paper as well as issues for the last 4 weeks. That’s right folks you get everything on their website that you would otherwise be able to get in their weekly tangible publication. It sounds like a great idea to me to go checkout their website and see for yourself. The website also can show all of you readers out there what is going on in the area, so if you are ever thinking about coming to the Coulee Region for a vacation you can be ahead of the game.

Please go check out the Second Supper website and let me know what you think, I would greatly appreciate it!

You can also jump over to their page on MySpace

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Lady finds $100K and gives it back to owner

Posted in Culture with tags , on Thursday, December 11, 2008 by Tim Althaus

cashx-large1In an article I read yesterday by USA Today, I learned that a lady found $97,000 in cash in a purse at a Cracker Barrel and returned it to its rightful owner. She found the wad of cash in the bathroom and had no idea what to do with it, I’m guessing that she seriously thought about keeping the cash (who the hell wouldn’t?) and living a new found wealth. Apparently it took coaxing from her grandson for her to tell what had happened with the money. Billie Watts (75) of Murfreesborough, Tennessee found the cash in a manila envelope and decided that leaving with the cash would be the best idea because she didn’t know whose hands the money would fall in. She went home and called the restaurant and let them know that she found something in the women’s bathroom and left her phone number. Within 10 to 15 minutes she got a call from the lady who correctly identified the picture in the bag and the money count. The money in the bag was the lady’s money from the sale of her house, and she was off to start a new life. She offered to pay Watts a thousand dollars but Watts said she couldn’t take it.

This lady is the opitomy of what we should call a “saint”. I like to think that there are actually people out there in our society because it lets me have a feeling that there are people out there doing positive things. I mean think about it: If you found almost one hundred thousand dollars in an envelope would you return it? I know for me it would be really fucking hard to do… that’s a lot of money. Billie Watts acted on the thought of principle alone; the money wasn’t hers and it didn’t belong to her. We need more people like this in our country, real and honest people.

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HAPPY EAT DAY

Posted in Culture on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Erik Burg

thanksgivingHello everybody out there in the interwebs, I hope you are enjoying/did enjoy Thanksgiving this year and that not too many fights broke out between family members. I’m in the dorms this year by myself feasting on pepperoni hot pockets and mountain dew, so I thought I’d drop by and say hello to all those faithful readers out there. Well…that’s all for now, there’s a nice mix below that you can fall asleep to (or dance to) after you stuff yourself full of Turkey. 

Electro Banger Ghetto Trash Mix – MixHell

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Drinking clean water that sat in cow shit?

Posted in Culture with tags , , , on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Tim Althaus

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Can you imagine taking a refreshing sip of some water that was sitting in ole’ Heffer’s (pictured above) excrement? I’m guessing the word that you wouldn’t use would be refreshing, I would say your adjective would probably be vile, disgusting, repulsive or a combination of many other nasty words. The folks at Vestergaard Frandsen have made it possible for water that was sitting in cow dung, as well as any other vile material to taste good as well as be healthy. They created a device called the Life Straw as well as the Life Straw Family. These devices are made for countries who have a mass quantity of people that can’t get clean and safe water to drink. This product is absolutely amazing, I will let the video speak for itself.

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November 23rd is free Dr. Pepper day (?)

Posted in Culture with tags , , on Sunday, November 23, 2008 by Ryan Buege

Fuck Guns ‘N Roses part deux; the only thing I’m excited about today is my free Dr Pepper that they promised me. However, right now now Dr Peppers’ lack of foresight is making this pretty hard for me; apparently the soft-drink company failed to predict that when it said it’d give the world free soda people would actually want it. The coupon for the free Dr Pepper is only supposed to be available through the company’s website today until midnight, but because they didn’t add enough server capacity to support the web traffic, their site has been unavailable for most of the day already! According to a report at WalletPop.com, a Dr Pepper spokesman said at noon EST that “the company was working to add more servers to handle the Web traffic”, but I’m going to guess that that might be too little too late. If I don’t get my free Dr Pepper AND there is a new Guns ‘N Roses available for purchase, this will be a very shitty day.

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Too Much Turkey Thanksgiving Dinner

Posted in Culture with tags , , on Thursday, November 20, 2008 by Ryan Buege

Can’t make it home from the cities for the  holiday? The metro’s favorite danceteria, First Avenue, has got you covered as they have teamed up with our favorite college radio station, U of M’s Radio K, to present a free turkey dinner next Thursday. Everyone’s invited to come down to the 2nd Annual Too Much Turkey free Thanksgiving dinner at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry on Thursday, November 27, 2008 if they have no other place to go. Among other things, mainroom will feature a full Thanksgiving dinner catered by The Meadows Café and the Rock Bottom Brewery. Sovietpanda, the weekly DJ at the infamous Too Much Love party, will be spinning his treats while you eat to your hearts content.

What: The 2nd Annual Too Much Turkey free Thanksgiving dinner at First Avenue
Who: All Ages-Open To The Public
When: Thursday, November 27, 2008 5-8pm
Where: First Avenue, 701 First Avenue North, Minneapolis
How: rsvp@first-avenue.com or just show up!
Why: It’s a completely FREE dinner! Why not?!

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