Reno and Beyond: Google Gets Ready To Take Over The World
Come all you rambling boys of pleasure and ladies of easy leisure:
- According to real estate diva Diane Cohn, The Palladio has booked Starbucks and Mikuni, a sushi joint into its retail spots, and they are talking to Port of Subs and The Melting Pot. Okay, sushi and Starbucks, good; The Melting Pot, bad. Seriously, we need to inject some hipness into the neighborhood, not bland chains that cater to suburbanites out for the night in every city in America.
- Jill Derby makes the frontpage of Dailykos which can only help her campaign fundraising wise. Sidebar–did you know this website has been labeled Reno Kos? Because we never discuss anything but national politics here. Hadn’t you noticed?
- The always lovely and informed Desert Beacon summarizes a story in the LV Sun about the embarassing GOP candidate for State Treasurer, Mark DeStefano. Was he really the best they could do? Unless you think evidence of sound financial management is NOT important in a State Treasurer, you should vote for Kate Marshall.
- Okay, I know you may not believe me, but I was supposed to conduct a phone interview Mark Warner today. But as it happens with busy politicians, his schedule changed and since I have a day job, the interview probably isn’t going to happen. Damn that day job–its ruining this blog! Anyway, Anjeanette Damon alludes to a possible visit soon. I may be able to help with that. Perhaps its October 16th? The day I could not conduct my second attempt at a phone interview.
- Did you know that Ken Layne, former editor of Sploid, is the latest “semi-long” guest editor for Wonkette? How about that for another Reno-DC connection? First there was Rove, then me, and now Ken. I know what he and his little dog look like so I’ll be able to spot them when they start cruising the newly finished Plaza del Sesso with his “semi-long.” That should be fun.
- A North Korea strategy from someone who knows a bit about the subject, President Jimmy Carter, who successfully kept North Korea from continuing its nuclear program in 1994. And before the Carter-haters jump all over his strategy, James Baker, uber Bush protector, shares his view that “its not appeasement to talk to your enemies.”
- Bad news–GOP apologists are going to have to find another conspiracy theory to explain away the “Cocktober suprise” as Wonkette is calling it. Ken Silverstein, of Harper’s Washington Babylon, clears up the “Democrats colluded with the media to break the story in time to inflict maximum damage to Republicans” excuse. Several media outlets, including some very liberal ones, held up on publishing the story because, as responsible journalists, they did not want to impugn a man’s character without proof. ABC ran the story once it had proof and the person who supplied the proof did so out of concern, not partisan interests.
- Rumsfeld sold nuclear reactors to North Korea and gets a new nickname.
- A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since the Iraq war began in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
- Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion and is at least halfway on its way to taking over the world and smothering it with Google Ads.
- Billy Bragg told me about this video at his show on Thursday in San Francisco, and said he wanted to be on my website so now he is. I still think its fake, but it drives my cat nuts. You’ll get concert reviews of the Bragg and Pogues San Francisco shows soon. A Discontents reader is going to the Thursday night Pogues’ show so we’ll have to compare notes first. The short reviews–Bragg was pretty darn good. The Pogues were amazing.
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I’m sensing someone feels the whole fondue thing is passe?
Seriously though, I’d rather see The Melting Pot than Starbucks or a Sushi restaurant. We have a plethora of both in Reno/Sparks already IMHO. Starbucks in particular is a chain that I would consider to be bland. They’re pretty much the Walmart of the coffee industry. Like Walmart, they also do a remarkably well job of catering to Suburbanites. Don’t believe me? In my area (South Reno near Double Diamond/Damonte Ranch), there are Starbucks at the Smith’s shopping center, R.C. Willey center, Walmart center, The Summit Sierra Mall, & Raley’s shopping center. A couple of these locations are less than a mile apart! Three of them have drive-thrus so you don’t even have to get out of your car to get your double-shot, extra hot, no foam soy latte.
Enough of Starbucks!
For the record, I like to consider myself open minded and I can appreciate a good chain restaurant/store. In fact, I would kill to see a Il Fornaio, Cheesecake Factory or Elephant Bar in Reno.
End of rant.
omg — when i read “the melting pot”, i thought you meant the clothing store on south virginia! i thought, “??? — how can you hate a local retailer?”
i had no idea there was a fondue chain with the same name!
as for me, i love fondue. how can more opportunities for melted cheese be bad thing?
I would like to add my support to Melting Pot downtown. I’ve long held the belief that some fondue in downtown Reno would be a great thing… I originally would have loved to see something like TMP at what I call Center Block. I’ll take it in the ‘Lad.
As for the suburbanites… well, Reno is a pretty suburban city. If it takes melted cheese to make them not fear the fantastic downtown they’ve been avoiding like the plague all this time… I’m all for it.
It’ll take more than melted cheese to bring the Great Washed downtown. It might take flan.
I never got the hype about Wilco. I liked that Woodie Guthrie song they did but YFH was an album I’ve never been into, though tried many times…
Flan is also in order. Can someone get on that please?
Gingerman, I think I follow your thinking. You went from Billy Bragg to Wilco. I’m with you on that….Wilco = overrated.
I dont think fondue is passe, I just don’t get the fondue thing but that’s not what I’m objecting to. I wish people could be a bit more creative–what about a tapas/mediterranean place with a bar for the evening? Starbucks is sort of a foundation block to a city center whatever you think about it.
Tapas is also in order. I need some small plates STAT!!!