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I have a neighbor with Cranley and Moroski signs right next to each other. The Cranley sign has been there for months.

$1M+ is a really hot segment of real estate right now. 1%ers

I sorta have a soft spot for "The Wizard" ha ha. Vans had warlocks painted on them for a reason in back then.

If you think ODOT and highway contractors are a good-old-boys club in Ohio, double or triple it for WV.

This is what growth boundaries give you, just like in Portland. UA is landlocked, so they have to reurbainze in order to raise property tax rolls and encourage commercial development.

I'm sitting here at work in 5XNW just west of campus and its around 1:15 with the game starting at 3:30. The traffic in every direction (not just in the direction of the stadium) is incredible. People need to get their errands out of the way NOW before the game starts. When I was out to lunch earlier I saw at least a couple drunk drivers during the middle of the day. Clearly noon games are even more disruptive. Noon games are a tradition left over from when women didn't have to work and could take care of all the errands during the week instead of racing around on Saturdays and all the men were alcoholics sitting on the couch watching the game on Channel 10 and drinking all day.

Haha, that's the kinda song where if you covered it the bar owner or open mic host would be like, "You know, that song was kind of blunt and weird, especially the part with the flanger." Then you'd tell him it was a Frank Zappa song and he'd be like "Oh, OK that's cool then."

KJP, it's going to take a whole lot of energy to clean up that water and remove the salt from the seawater. Seawater ---> freshwater conversion still isn't read for prime time on a large scale.

I infiltrated one once because I had to drop something off at some girl's place in college and nobody told me it was happening. And one time I went to an open mic in Milford where one was going on upstairs. I don't think I played at that one or else I probably would have said "hey dildo chicks" into the PA.

Nobody wants to live in the monastery itself? Do companies even know how to build houses that belong in Hyde Park today? No EIFS, OK?.

I like the one comment calling BOAST "City Outsiders Aggressively Stealing Taxes"

I wish I could create my own work like that.

As the schedule's game times start to fill in, we see that this year is going to have many more 7-8pm games, most likely due to the excellent TV ratings Buckeye games enjoy. Noon games are known for lower TV ratings, quiet stadiums and grinding the city's economy to a halt on what is normally a productive day of the week during the most pleasant time of the year. Unlike last season's four straight noon home games to start the season, currently there are no more nooners left this season, but 5 games' start times are still TBA. Will the predictions by some of chaos and rioting come true, or will today's nerdy, phone-obsessed risk-averse students show little interest in rowdyness as compared to the bored meathead college students of the '90s (of which I was a member)? We don't really know for sure yet and it may take years to find the truth. Here's the schedule so far: vs. Buffalo TV Columbus, Ohio W, 40-20 09/07/13 vs. San Diego State TV Columbus, Ohio 3:30 p.m. ET 09/14/13 at California TV Berkeley, Calif. 7:00 p.m. ET 09/21/13 vs. Florida A&M TV Columbus, Ohio TBA 09/28/13 vs. Wisconsin * TV Columbus, Ohio 8:00 p.m. ET 10/05/13 at Northwestern * TV Evanston, Ill. 8:00 p.m. ET 10/19/13 vs. Iowa * TV Columbus, Ohio 3:30 p.m. ET 10/26/13 vs. Penn State * TV Columbus, Ohio 8:00 p.m. ET 11/02/13 at Purdue * TV West Lafayette, Ind. TBA 11/16/13 at Illinois * TV Champaign, Ill. TBA 11/23/13 vs. Indiana * TV Columbus, Ohio TBA 11/30/13 at Michigan * TV Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA Big Ten Championship Game 12/07/13 TBA * TV Indianapolis, Ind. TBA

I don't think these fracking companies are making any money anyway. Each hole only pays for the next one.

Looks like the news about the new carry in bag regulations for the 2013 season got ate by the server. Basically either only clear bags (the kind you have to carry when you work in one of Columbus' trillions of warehouses) or very tiny purses are allowed in. As if the league wasn't having a hard enough time getting butts in the seats already. ANYWAY, people always forget (or have a legal bag that security turns away anyway), get turned away at the gate and have to put it back in their car. Thieves know this and have started lurking outside the stadiums to tear open people's cars to steal the bags. Here's a story about a lady who had a complaint bag but got turned away anyway at an NCAA game at Mile High Stadium. The stadium has adopted the NFL rules for all football games at the facility. So the policy even hurts the college game. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/09/03/car-burglary-victim-says-new-stadium-bag-policy-is-partly-to-blame/ As someone who hosts events from time to time, I can tell you that it is increasingly difficult to get people to be at a certain place at a certain time. Between today's awful work schedules, high under- and unemployment, gestapo DUI enforcement, transportation problems and the 24/7/365 non-weather-sensitive flexibility of today's home-based entertainment, people are less likely to show up to things. The last thing they need when they get somewhere is a bunch of lame rules and regulations when they get to these expensive events. I remember when there were a bunch of Joe Footballfans (motorsports' term for ball-and-stick sports fans) getting into NASCAR in the '90s and early 2000s that nearly fainted when they found out they could bring up to a case of their own beer or even like 10 bottles of liquor per person into the races as long as the cooler was under 24"X24".

Man, look at all those '50s American cars kept alive with replacement engines from forklifts.

I never really thought about the similarities of their appearances.

Because they've dealt with them in person. Just like every other city in Ohio, Cincinnati is just a big small town.

Ah yeah, those houses and warehouses are in the "North Oakley" belt north of Brotherton and Minot, West of Ridge and south of the train tracks which is still not really all that hot as it stands. Like that one bar on Brotherton across from the Domino's that my neighbor (and old friend from college) always warned me not to patronize but I always ended up going to anyway. Something fresh there might change that.

What about the one out by New Richmond?

I remember when we hosted our first tournament, a Street Fighter II and IV event in 2010. I was deathly afraid that there wouldn't be enough parking (we have 27 spaces for the entire strip center), especially since the pizza place that used to be next door did a ton of business Friday nights. Imagine my shock when all 9 competitors and a handful of spectators arrived in a total of three cars. Almost everyone was over 17. If it was 1992 and you had a Street Fighter II event almost everyone would have drove separate. I remember seeing a ton of cars outside an otherwise sleepy area of Eastland Mall when Aladdin's Castle had one back then.

That's the other problem with college students: Way too much of their diet consists ramen, pizza rolls, delivery pizzas and cereal to do TJ's a lot of good. Their bodies don't demand the higher-quality foods that a 25+ body does.

There is a now-banned poster who used to insist that cars were a fixed cost. That's the kind of belief system that people who don't understand money, energy and automobiles have. You could have Warren Buffet, Stephen Hawking and Dale Earnhardt all three explaining how it really works to some people and they would still believe some of the lies brought forth from people like Randall O'Toole.

Compare population charts from 1850-1890. Cincinnati had a lot more people during that period -- sometimes twice as many. It also had about the same amount of people between 1830-1850. Cincinnati didn't start losing out to D.C. until the 1940s.

Cincinnati is 13 years older than Washington D.C. organizationally and even older as a settlement area.