Can someone cue “Three Blind Mice”? So Dylan Avery likes talking about balls, and doods with balls in their mouths. Hey, that’s his mature way of responding to critics, by using all that homoerotic imagery floating around his noggin’. As Jerry Seinfeld might say, not that there’s anything wrong with…
In a major disappointment for mayoral hopeful Rev. Jarrett Maupin, Judge Peter Swann just returned a decision effectively dismissing Maupin’s lawsuit aimed at placing his name on the September 11 ballot. Judge Swann agreed with the Phoenix City Attorney that Maupin’s challenge had come too late in the day for…
Keep remindin’ yourself, he’s only 20… It was a packed house in the Old Bailey today as lawyers for both the Rev. Jarrett Maupin and the City of Phoenix duked it out before Judge Peter B. Swann over whether or not Maupin’s name will be on the ballot come this…
The People’s Champ fights back today in court… With the political clock ticking, Phoenix mayoral hopeful Jarrett Maupin filed suit in Maricopa County Superior Court late Monday to have his name restored to the September 11 ballot. Maupin is repped by Republican attorney John Acer, perhaps most famous locally for…
Well, that explains everything… I know there are people out there who think The Onion is the greatest comedy rag since National Lampoon or Spy, but I’ve always found it hit or miss. On my bulletin board is one of the hits: “Food Critic Tears Radish Canapés With Salmon Mousse…
Pardon me, can anyone direct me to the ladies’ bog? In a press release issued today, Tom Anderson, owner of Anderson’s 5th Estate in Scottsdale, defied the AZ Attorney General’s request that Anderson come in for a voluntary interview regarding the dumbass donnybrook instigated by Michele de LaFreniere and his/her…
Tiffany Cortez, from a photo on http://www.myspace.com/misstiffycortez, copied onto the AZPunk.com site. Normally, it’s bad form to speak ill of the dead, but not necessarily on that self-appointed online arbiter of all things badass, AZPunk.com, where some posters to the site have laid into fallen PHX police officer George Cortez,…
The YouthStrikers, starvin’ for justice… Just stopped by the little bookstore at 16th, just south of Thomas in PHX where the YouthStrikers have set up their foodless sleepover in the back. Wanted to get my green ribbon and encourage these young activists who’re protesting against the Prop 300 law and…
Hey Susan, can I get a witness? Where’s Susan Powter when you need her? I’ve mostly held my tongue during the mourning over the four guys who perished in that tragic helicopter accident last week, out of respect for those who died and their families. However, it has occurred to…
First piece on the Grant Ave. side of Miranda’s. Let’s hear it for serendipity. I was going stir-crazy Sunday, researching the cover story I’m working on now, so I took a ride to ease my nerves and just so happened upon one of the dopest legal walls I’ve ever seen…
The kids are alright: Give ’em hell, El Break… I was heartened over the weekend to learn of the hunger strike starting today by these college students who have a radio show on 1190 AM called El Break. According to the press release, they’ll be parked outside of Congressman Ed…
Mayor of the nation’s fifth-largest city, major league doofus, or both? Let’s go to the videotape. Anyone out there who doesn’t think PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon is icompetent should take a look at this video from a 7/21 interview ABC 15’s Lisa Fletcher did with Goober, following the airing…
Damnit, Manet, won’t you ever come out? Just watched a late night repeat of the Friday journalist roundtable on AZ PBS Horizon (you guessed it, there was nothing else on), with Howie Fischer hosting and making sure to hit everything he wrote about this week for Capitol Media Services. One…
Paul Chagolla (right) barely containing his rage, with me on the left, and Lisa Allen MacPherson in the middle; from back in November, when Chagolla threw me out of a press conference for no reason. Uh, note my super-aggressive body language… What do Communist China, present-day Iran, and Maricopa County…
Schmidt with Joe Arpaio’s former spleen victim Jefferson Davis McGee… Hey if Germany can’t keep TomKat out of the country, as much as they dislike Scientologists, do you really think it’s smart to try to hustle Cruise? The latest from the AP says the Valley’s not-so-beloved Sultan of Sleaze, David…
Ice-cream peddler, alleged studmuffin, and former Congressman Gary Condit… You’ve gotta wonder what was going through former Congressman Gary Condit’s noggin. I mean, most folks’d packed the whole sad, tawdry Chandra Levy affair deep into their mental basements, and had no idea that Condit now lives in AZ. So reporter…
Maupin, battling to get back on the ballot. Here’s an update on yesterday’s post regarding the news that PHX City Clerk Mario Paniagua is not certifying mayoral hopeful Jarrett Maupin for the 9/11/07 ballot because Maupin’s 91 signatures short of the 1500 valid sigs needed. The amount of effort Gordon’s…
Maupin’s down for the moment, but he’s not out yet… The Rev. Jarrett Maupin fell 91 signatures short of the 1,500 necessary to be certified to be on the ballot in the Sept. 11 mayoral election, Phoenix City Clerk Mario Paniagua said today. Maupin turned in 3,920 signatures on Friday,…
If you’re irony deficient, here’s one to bite on: Damon Ashenfelter, the self-avowed white supremacist who was identified in Friday’s post, “Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America: A family portrait,” has set his MySpace profile to private, and changed his motto from “Hail the Order. Hail the 14 words…
The gang’s all here, everyone but Uncle Fester… Add another white supremacist to the ranks of Kia-peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America. A source sent the above photo to me, stating that they got it off Rusty’s Web page at http://immigrationbuzz.com/. According to the source, the photo was…
Terry Goddard’s new slogan: A tranny in every bog! To cop a line from comedienne Margaret Cho: Ah, the magical smell of balls and pantyhose! You best get used to it ladies, if Attorney General Terry Goddard and local diversity activist Michele de LaFreniere have anything to do about it…
Wack-ass graff: Detail from pics of Goober Gordon’s HQ (below). You’d think with a million smackers in the bank, PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon could keep the ex-tranny bar on Roosevelt he calls a campaign HQ free of urban blight. But as mayoral contender Steve Lory pointed out with a…
