CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Town Talk Wingnuttery

    Two independently wealthy 9-year-olds express their frustration with the Bush Administration’s bail-out of the banking industry Obama Administration’s stimulus bill during The Town Talk-endorsed Lafayette Tea Party.  (Photo: The Daily Advertiser). A sampling of this week’s Our View editorials in The Town Talk: Wednesday, March 4: Consider what is promised in “A New Era of Responsibility,” the president’s misguided spending plan for 2010 and a strategy that will mortgage much of what the Founding Fathers had in mind. Uh-huh. And they’d have us believe the entire plan is “misguided” because, well, it calls for new things (I suppose they believe…

  • Is This Smart Growth?

    I have my own opinions, but I’m interested in hearing yours. The basic concept is to link up the Mall/City Park complex with a new Expressway. Apparently, the project is on the Chamber’s wish list. I created this map as a rudimentary illustration: And here’s the affected area, as it now looks from space:

  • A Sunday for Music

    I spent a few hours this lazy Sunday afternoon buying and backing up some of my favorite new music. In no particular order: 1. Black Kids: Partie Traumatic: I considered Black Kids’s debut EP, which, for a while there, you could download for free on their MySpace page, as one of my favorite albums of 2008. Partie Traumatic is their first actual full-length album, featuring a few re-toolings of songs from their EP. Spin Magazine says: While Democrats debated whether an African American or a woman should be our next president, Black Kids became the most buzzed-about new band since…