COYOTE CARNIVAL 2
I've been without Internet at home and this has curtailed my Coyote Carnival hosting duties. but hopefully I've made up for it here with a tear-jerking (or is that jerk-tearing?) edition of the Coyote Carnival. This is what it's supposed to be. Thanks to Michael Bryan for letting me host. I posted a few words about me earlier this month. Who's the next lucky person?
As we continue to get this Carnival going, we'll copy it here as well. But if you want to see it in its original colors, TempleStark.com
Take the Carnival Ride
• Inedible Ink for the five most jolting words at the top of a blog. (As of March 31. 810 p.m. AZ Time)
• For sheer explosive designaminism, Coyote Carnival presents Gail Davis' Arizona Eclectic Webzine. Much like the Arizona weather, if you don't like it one minute, come back in five and it will be different. Wait that's Washington State. There's some words at the site, too. The retired (but not retiring) Ms. Davis simultaneously wins the award for freakiest Web address.
• Best non-commercial radio by a damn site, KCDX. (Hang on, that's this one.) Based in Florence, AZ, county seat of Pinal County. Country Thunder they will NOT be airing, but Ride the Lightning or Riders on the Storm? Maybe.
• Sam Coppersmith (he's gotta have sideburns with that name, no?) at Liberal Desert reminds all of that oxymoronic phrase "Fuzzy Math" and updates it for a new generation.
• With a nod to Cactus League Spring Training, Scottsdale Insider posts about former Twins slugger Kirby Puckett's passing. And cheers for keeping the Scottsdale highway cameras (The only person I've read that does)
• A Greater Arizona Bicycling Association bikeswap rally in Tucson, news courtesy of Live Journal(ist) Tmartinez. And if you're bored Sunday you can be a photo model "no nudity, nothing even close to nudity" for the Rape of Lucretia and other Italian dePICtions.
• Espresso Pundit gets out one of the best lines of the month using the phrase "Dang, too bad Dennis Weaver is dead." But again what's with the no permalinks? Scroll down to March 23 and the "Paul Lynne to Block" post.
• Darcy Olsen, CEO and President of the Goldwater Institute shows she knows diddly about blogs, four lines and a link to a Goldwater Institute column, most often written by someone else, seems to be her maximum effort at AZ Central Plugged In. Cute n'all and she does link to the delicious concept of Miranda Rights for Parents but turns out to list a good point about parent notfication for underperforming schools under the No Child Left Behind Act.
• Andi Berlin, a UofA student who can't spell brakes (true but see :-) ) tells of counting crosses on a trip down to Mexico to meet Romero Gets some vivid humor in, as well.
• Geo's Place writes up a storm commemorating the March 28, 1969 death of Dwight D. Eisenhower (no permalinks, so scroll down to March 28).
• Tucson Science Cat writer Will Shetterly will be at the Arizona Book Festival as a participant in the mixing genres workshop (workshop, lecture, powwow, don't know what to call it). As an aside, he has the first Google Pages site I've seen, but more importantly (or maybe not, having never read his books) he's finishing up a novel.
• Fiction is Stranger then the Mirror of Truth awardance to Inedible Ink for his on-the-fly post about Hitchock's The Birds coming to life in England.
• The, Should Have Got Over It By Now bow To Drama Queenery, in trampled-heart meter goes to ... me. Orchid or Rose
• Best writing in a cameo role on a little thing Arizonans like to call immigration policy? (with the question mark compulsory) at Blog For Arizona The guest in question is Karl Reiner.
• Up-and-comer Arizona Congress Watch for the best "I did not know that (and did I want to?)" moment Comes with free Viagra government warning. Also a serious point about Trent Frank's effort to ban RU-486, that will, no doubt, come up short.
Honorable but Coyote Carnival non-compliant mentions - Home Is Where The Heart Is, photos of AZ by Andrew who looks like he visited for some spring training fun.
• Yep, that Mexican flag was burned. Didn't take long.
• The I may have to "get lost" before they tell me to "get lost" (also ineligible) note of photographer Tim happy to be coming to Arizona for a Playboy photoshoot this weekend. Not your usual "slow lane" winter visitors, eh?