Pushy Bureaucrat Crashes Chalk the Police Day

by | Oct 1, 2012 | 3 comments

I have gotten so used to having my camera groped at by authoritative busybodies that I am beginning to feel as though I should question my relative comfort with it. The first article featured on this blog was about a police officer who couldn’t keep his hands off of my phone when it was acting as an audio streaming device. Since then, I’ve had a previous camera clutched so firmly that it automatically powered off, in an escapade that traveled the blogosphere during the first annual lemonade freedom day. My Canon Vixia’s design is much more rugged and durable than the previous Nikon Coolpix I used to utilize for Free Concord videos. And I appreciate the upgraded zoom capabilities and high definition 16:9 widescreen frame. Today, as I celebrated International Chalk the Police day with others, my camera withstained a push from a Keene city parks and recreation director Andrew Bohannon, as he fumbled to conceal his identity from chalkers. After activists had covered most of the central square park in liberty oriented slogans and quotes, a man driving around the rotary yelled from his vehicle at the chalkers to stop. Myself and others waved and invited the person to join us for Chalk the Police day. Moments later, I noticed a man with a phone who had walked up onto the square and begun speaking with people, phone in hand, and an identification swinging from his neck. (more…)

Harold and Kumar Visit Covered by KSC Equinox

by | Sep 20, 2012 | 1 comment

Kal Penn and John Cho, aka Harold and Kumar’s recent visit to Keene State College has been documented by the school’s publication keene-equinox.com. My “forwarded” question to the campaigning duo, which was the subject of my article on the event, is discussed in the Equinox article. I am quoted as well. Curiously enough, the content of my question is not included. See the article from yesterday at the Equinox’s page:

http://keene-equinox.com/2012/09/hollywood-actors-escape-to-keene-state/

Photo: Just prior to the speaking engagement, from the Equinox’s facebook page

Harold and Kumar Escape From Tough Questions

by | Sep 17, 2012 | 5 comments

John Cho and Kal Penn, known the world over as Harold and Kumar, spent yesterday and today touring the state’s colleges on behalf of the Obama reelection campaign. Of the eight stops on the two day tour, Keene was the only location in which the duo appeared together.

Harold and Kumar are an awkward choice for the young face of the Obama campaign. Their characters are a target of forces within the Obama administration which the president has done little to address. Campaigning in 2008, he had said that medicinal cannabis enforcement would be the lowest priority of his law enforcement. Under Obama, the United States has seen an increase in raids of medicinal cannabis clinics as well as increased enforcement against undocumented immigrants. While many expected change, the result was a slightly worse version of the same. (more…)

Win an exclusive, autographed 24×36″ movie poster!

by | Sep 6, 2012 | 0 comments

PosterCONTEST TIME! Anyone who contributes $5 to our chip-in below will get a ticket entered in our raffle to win a Derrick J-autographed 24×36″ movie poster! ($10 contributions will get 3 raffle tickets, and any multiple of $10 will get 3 tickets per $10) Anyone who has already chipped-in prior to this announcement will also be included in the raffle. The movie poster is the one you see in this post and there are only five of them being produced. Three will go to the movie’s production team and the other two will be those raffled. Winners will be drawn on September 15th – one after the Q&A session at the premiere and the online winner sometime later in the day.

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