The Dodgers may currently be unable to win one single crummy game in order to clinch the National League West title, but that all changes when we collectively use the force this Saturday night to guide the team to victory over the Rockies (90% sure it won’t happen tonight). Fans who forked over the $50 for the yoda t-shirt and a seat in the now-sold-out special Lower Reserve area will also enjoy mask-wearing privileges and a menu consisting of Cloneburgers with cheese, R2-BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, and Ice Sabers (popsicles) (no, I did not make those up). Jim Rome may have said it best some time back:

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A giant drive-thru redwood tree trunk provides a perfect perch for a billboard of one of the most bizarre roadside tourist traps I’ve ever discovered in a slide. Not only does this rural wonder claim to be a park of totem poles (and, who, tell me doesn’t like totem poles,) it’s also an aquarium where you can see “Ocean Wonders ALIVE – Like a Walk on the Floor of the Sea – Just Ahead.” Or in the case of this robin’s egg blue 1949 Plymouth, just behind! Judging by the mossy tree trunk this has to be somewhere in Northern California. Does any remember this memorable place???

Speaking of totem poles, I saw one just the other day. Not the traditional carved-out-of-a-tree-trunk type, oh no. It was a totem pole piñata that reminded me of a third grade art project that inspired me to get creative and make a rather stylish, if I do say so myself, totem pole out of five empty five gallon Baskin Robbins ice cream containers taped one on top of the other. Ultimately it was a paper mache affair complete with cutout cardboard wings and traditional colorful faces rendered in tempera, which I always think of when I occasionally enjoy an order of tempura in an exotic restaurant. But we’re not talking about delicious deep fried Japanese taste treat sensations right now, are we? This is about totem poles and paper mache!

»continue reading Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Totem Pole Park & Aquarium, Somewhere, USA, 1956

HEADS CANCELED
Kanye West & Lady Gaga, @ Staples Center Mon Nov 16 (Cancelabra)

Those of you who were hoping to hit next month’s Staples show in order to have Kanye enlighten you on various things best-of-all-time will have to wait, apparently, as CNN’s reporting Live Nation just announced the tour has already been canceled (we’re told nobody interrupted the announcement):

Concert promoter Live Nation said Thursday that West’s concert tour with Lady Gaga — titled “Fame Kills” — has been canceled just two weeks after it was announced.

The reason for the cancellation was not revealed, but West told NBC’s Jay Leno last month — before the tour was officially announced — that he planned “to take some time off” in the aftermath of his MTV awards show embarrassment.

Take heart, Kanyephile, and enjoy a pre-awards-snafu’d Kanye back in Austin, SXSW ’09 as captured at the Fader Fort by the ever-reliable Sung.

» Kayne West’s ‘Fame Kills’ tour meets swift death (CNN)
» SXSW ‘09: Kanye West & Guests @ Fader Fort