Toronto Meetup!! Bump the Toronto Meetup this weekend. More inside-->

Sept. Toronto Meetup? Any interest in a Toronto meetup Sept 8 or 9 (Fri or Sat)?

Cleveland Meetup Pics ... are here and here and here.

Cleveland March Meetup this Thrusday, 3/2 @ 8:00: Several of us are already going and MeFi/MoFi/MeCha, lurkers, non-member readers and paparazzi are all welcome at Edison's Pub in Tremont. Details inside.

CAFTA: The controversial CAFTA passes by two votes. STOP CAFTA! Dr Greger explains CAFTA, world government by global corporations, and its effect on animal welfare, from CAFTA's roots in NAFTA, Fast Track, etc., in 54 minutes of brilliant audio clips.

Let it go already, Condi... Perplexed by the vitriol of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attacks on Iran, one lawmaker believes he has uncovered the secret of her enmity - that she was spurned by an Iranian boyfriend at college.

CuriousGeorge/Clichés? Is it possible to use a phrase like "shadows lengthen" or "shadows creep" in a short poem (in which every word counts, unlike prose where there's sometimes more leeway) without sounding cliché? [MI] more inside

Coffee Monkeyshines... Via madamjujujive via MetaChat...

Toronto Meetup? I'll be bumming around Toronto this Saturday and Sunday. Anyone for a mini-meetup or some coffee?

Online pay-per-view comics:
Love, death, pigeons, gigantic snatchy hand-things, and brain-bent princesses run amok in Wary Tales. Six fun online comics for $.50 payable thru' Bitpass. Scott McCloud's The Morning Improv is $.25/installment, also via Bitpass. Links via e-sheep's Apocamon (thru' Bitpass too.) Previously discussed over there. Are comic "micropayments" here to stay? Is this a good way to support comics creators directly?

Pachinko Hoedown! See Nicholas Cage square(-dance) off against shiny robots (aliens?) in quirky Japanese TV commercials for Sankyu Co Pachinko parlors. Weird/Fun. Description of Pachinko inside, but I look forward to better information from our Monkey Agents in Japan. (Via Peter Payne and his "gaijin in Japan" updates.)