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Volume 9 Issue 168 June 18, 2009

One Man’s

Treasure A Rummage Sale Revue

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In a way, Second Supper is kind of like a rummage sale. You never know what you're going to find from week to week, but that's part of the appeal of it. You just have to venture out into the community to pick one up. And this week, I like what we have to offer.

Ben Clark gives us the cover story. Back when Second Supper was a straight satire newspaper, Ben (or one of his many pen names) used to be on the front page all the time. Nowadays you can catch him writing a science column, hyping a Do This, sharing travelogues from his ska band, or providing any number of uncredited jokes, but this week he was practically giddy to tackle the lead story. Ben, you see, has an appreciation the finer things in life. He just defines them as ironic trinkets, remnants of a pop culture from days past.

This manifests itself in one the better T-shirt collections around, and sure enough he picked up a great one for a buck on his latest excursion.Turn to page 7 to see what else he grabbed.

Another fine item this week comes from Nate Willer, who has been reporting for us while teaching English in South Korea. Previously this resulted in interesting essays on art and culture, but with North Korea making headlines this month for testing nuclear weapons, arresting journalists, and naming a successor to Kim Jong-Il, his correspondence has become a lot more prescient. I thought he did an admirable job in telling a story you don't often find in the American press: what Koreans actually think about these high stakes developments. It's not what you might expect.

But once again, that's what makes us Second Supper. In the great American media rummage sale (and that's sort of what it's become), we're the knickknack that cracks you up, and sometimes we're that hard to find goodie that's exactly what you need. But we don't believe in a price tag for our stuff, not even a nickel. Second Supper is the best free bin around.

— Adam Bissen

Table of Contents This Page ................................................3 The Cosmic Monster .........................4 Smoking Hemp Porter ..................... 5 River City Hobbies ........................... 6 In the Garage ...................................... 7 Korean State of Mind ........................ 8 Advertisements ....................................9 Powder Blue ........................................ 10 Crossword ............................................11 Community Service ............................12,13 Rock Out! .............................................14

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WHAT: Second Supper-Cavalier Golf Outing!

WHEN: Saturday, June 20 WHERE: Irish Hills Golf Course, La Crosse Is there any better way to enjoy a nice, summer day that walking around one of the most beautiful golf courses the Coulee Region has to offer? And best of all, it's put on by us and your friendly folks down at The Cavalier! The cost is $25 per player and you can play in groups of four.The best ball scramble begins at a 1 p.m., shotgun start, and continues on for nine holes. Proceeds from the outing will go to the La Crosse Salvation Army! To sign up, visit either the Cavalier at 114 5th Ave S. or Second Supper at 614 Main St. If visiting is too much, you can call (262) 893-8313 to sign up or send an email to mike.keith@secondsupper.com! So come on out and have fun whacking balls around all day! It's sure to be a hole in one.

— Ben Clark Rummage sale finds 1. Cork dartboard 2. Vinyl records (in good condition) 3. A piece of wood with a mushroom painted on it 4. 1982 Brewers merch 5. Little kids running a snack table 6. Bill Cosby sweaters 7. A globe with the U.S.S.R. on it Things we hope to see at Alpine Valley this weekend 1.

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Run Like an Antelope Old friends Dollar grilled cheeses Insane dancing guy who pauses to update his setlist notebook, then returns to insane dancing 5. Glow in the dark Frisbees 6. Grey-haired hippies with tie-dyed babies 7. Copious tickets under face Things Bob Uecker says 1.

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LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: Song lyrics IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? I want to go everywhere and not live in one spot, but somewhere warmer.

HOW WOULD YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR LAST NIGHT ON EARTH? With all my friends and family doing everything and anything that I can squeeze in.

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FAVORITE BAR IN TOWN: Yesterdays CELEBRITY CRUSH: Brandon Boyd WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? Ham On Rye

TELL US YOUR GUILTIEST PLEASURE: Ice cream in bed, Roseanne, and being a huge fan of sideburns.

TELL US A JOKE I'm not very good at jokes, but I like when people tell me them.

IF A GENIE GRANTED YOU THREE WISHES, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR? To be able to teleport myself anywhere, be free of adult responsibilities, and to keep the ability to always have fun and be content in this world, and be married to Brandon Boyd.

FIRST CONCERT YOU WENT TO: Kottonmouth Kings and Cypress Hill WHAT'S THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? Mt. Dew and Camels WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW? Nothing,.

HOW DO YOU KNOW JASON? I rode his bike downtown

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Smoking Hemp Porter Pearl Street Brewery La Crosse, Wisconsin

There were many highlights from this weekend’s Bandit County Fair — Moon Boot Posse, The Bottom of the Barrel String Band,T.U.G.G., Willy Porter, Great American Taxi, and hosts The Smokin’ Bandits — but one of the most memorable moments from the music festival was its one-of-a-kind beer. The Smoking Hemp Porter was brewed specifically for the fest. It’s a wonderful melding of local commerce, inspired brewing and fine wordplay, but more than all that, it’s also really tasty porter. Oh yeah, and it’s made from weed. Well, not weed exactly, but Canadian hemp seed and barley malts that have been smoked over a fire of peat moss. By my own count, I drank nine pints of Smoking Hemp Porter over the weekend, but even if you didn’t have the pleasure of raging the festy with me, you can still get a taste of this experiential small batch run — but you have to act fast. As of Tuesday afternoon the beer was still available at the Pearl Street Brewery’s tasting room on St. Andrews Street, and while I’m not the boss of you, I’d recommend grabbing a growler while supplies last.

Although this porter is a summer brew, it pours a pure mahogany color, opaque even when held to the light. Out of a growler the head of my beer looks thin and grey with almost nonexistent lacing, but I seem to remember a creamier foam when I drank it at the fest.

The aroma is earthy with nice characteristics

of peat moss and a bit of burnt popcorn, and although I’ve heard that the smell of smoked hemp can be distinctive, I didn’t detect anything in the nose that would run you afoul of the law.

Unlike a lot of offerings from the Pearl Street Brewery, the porter seeps across the tongue with a dry, unassuming taste. In time the flavor does turn smoky with some nice notes of Appearance: 8 almonds, but once again the taste of hemp (hops’ Aroma: 7 closest genetic cousin) is almost impossible Taste: 8 to detect. America has other marijuana-inspired Mouthfeel: 10 beers that come on with hazy flavors — here I’m Drinkability: 9 thinking of Lost Coast Brewery's Indica Ale — but perhaps Pearl Total: 42 Street was looking to highlight the workingman-like qualities of industrial hemp. What this porter has on those other heady ales, though, is mouthfeel. It has a creamy body and a dry finish, and while summer seasonal porters are rare in the brewing world, I can vouch for this one being especially thirst-quenching. Now let’s put one in the air and hope it comes back next summer.

— Adam Bissen

The ethical barista No matter what your occupation is, you should generally consider the ethical implications of your job from time to time. Being a baristais is loaded with issues that most of us probably forget about. The spectrum of consequences is far-reaching for us coffee-peddlers. For instance, if the café that employs you doesn’t serve fair trade coffee, are you selling a product that was purchased for an absurdly low price, perpetuating poverty in any number of far-away countries? Maybe, although some upstanding buyers pay fair prices without the “Fair Trade” label. What about shade-grown coffee? If yours isn’t, chances are millions of migratory birds are pretty pissed off, if they’re not dead from lack of habitat. And, as the trend necessitates, let’s consider organics. Conventional coffees are typically covered in a variety of chemical toxins—and that’s three strikes: one for your health, one for the coffee farmers’ health, and one, big, fat one for Mama Earth. Ouch…it’s not looking good for the majority of coffee drinkers, especially poor ones. And while fair trade, shade-grown, organic coffees can be really great quality-wise, they sometimes fall terribly short on the flavor wagon. And that’s putting a socially-conscious, eco-friendly, flava’ crava’ between a rock and a

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There’s another dilemma that I think about pretty frequently: being a barista is a lot like being a drug dealer…technically, it is being a drug dealer. People get pretty dependent, if not down-right addicted to caffeine. Personally, I’m not one too feel great about being dependent on anything, but I tend to overlook my caffeine problem. Maybe it’s because it’s an addiction that’s global in scale, one that most cultures give a big thumbs-up to, that it’s so easy to pish-posh it as a problem. The only time it really bugs me is when (gasp!) I’m sick and coffee doesn’t sound good and I’m slammed with a throbbing withdrawal headache by 2 pm…then it’s a little scary, but as any good addict would do, I just take my drug and feel better.

I almost feel a little bit evil when I encourage my customers to let me throw a shot of espresso into their coffee — almost. I just want them to have a good time, after all.

So what’s an ethical barista to do? I’ll do my best to serve quality, socially- and ecologically- sound coffees. But I can’t guarantee that I’ll stop pushing those shots…

— Amber Miller

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By Brett Emerson

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Since 1982, River City Hobbies has fulfilled the Coulee Region’s jones for all things collectible, including comics, sports memorabilia, and role playing games. The store has bounced around different locations in its 27 years of life, though it has never strayed far from the Cass Street strip mall that it until recently shared with Kwik Trip.

When that local titan of industry decided to expand its Cass Street enterprise, however, its neighbors were forced to find new digs.

River City Hobbies looked into various contingency plans, ultimately deciding to go beyond the pale and into downtown. On Monday, June 15, the store opened its new doors at 313 Main St., surrounded by businesses such as A Touch of Class, Great Wall, Deaf Ear, and The Helm. The store is narrower and smaller than its old location, though the additions of a basement and second floor will allow for a greater organization.

While any business move naturally comes with its share of anxiety, there is a great deal of opportunity for this humble hobby store to grow.

“Our history with Kwik Trip has always been good,” said store owner John Vach. “It’s too bad we can’t continue that symbiosis, but we get to stand on our own two feet now. The people that find us will find us, but I think we may see more people who don’t want to make the Cass Street trip, especially with the hotels and businesses down here. Hopefully they will be a boon to us, and the type of customers that come to us will be a boon to these other merchants.”

A former schoolteacher at St. James Elementary, Vach has spent decades in the collectible industry — or as he puts it in Socratic terms,“corruption of the youth.” Having owned River City Hobbies since 1992, Vach has both watched and participated in the store’s transformation from a cards-and-comic-book store into a more versatile business. This is a factor which Vach credits to the store’s ability to weather crises that have ended more specialized stores: the season-ending baseball strike in the '90s, the more recent steroid scandal, and various implosions within Marvel Comics and the role-playing industry.

“Compared to ’92, there are maybe 40 percent of these types of stores left in the country. I know there are pure comic book stores, but for us, our strength and ability to survive when things went bad came from the

fact that we did multiple things. That helps a store; you’re attracting your same customers, but you’re adding people that may jump over. If a business like this wants to provide the game rooms, it has to survive to be able to do it.”

Complimenting the store’s versatility, much of the driving force behind River City Hobbies has come from its loyal fan base. Vach estimated that around 80 percent of the store’s business comes from repeat customers, including former customers who remain on the store’s shipping lists despite moving away. “We are a destination store, and it’s interesting to see how that works. In a sense, we’ve become a clubhouse. Wednesday is New Comic Day, and up to 15 or 20 guys will sit around and talk comics, which leads to toys, which leads to movies, which leads to video games. Friday is Magic Night, filled with guys who talk nothing but Magic.”

Vach pointed to an old Second Supper article posted on the wall, a point-counterpoint piece of satire acting out the feigned hostility between the sports card and comic book cultures. “Some of them cross genres,” he noted.

This sense of camaraderie manifested in the store’s move, in that most of Vach’s moving help has come from volunteers, some coming from as far away as Winona to help. Examples like this prove to him the importance of small businesses, and their ability to create commercial relationships that a big chain store cannot replicate, even if the road isn’t always easy.

“Real estate is a problem; taxes are a problem. If someone steals two plasma TVs and a couple of computers from Best Buy, it hurts them about as much as a $10 shoplift does to me. But a downtown needs small independent merchants; it adds something to the town itself.”

“When we moved, we looked to buy a place instead of renting. With the group that I put together to work with this store — Jason Mills from Deaf Ear is very dedicated to this kind of business — I’m trying to keep it so it doesn’t diminish in the future.”

Everything looks to be in order, and optimism is high, but there was one last question to ask of Vach.Which superhero would you be?

Though he admitted an admiration for Batman in his younger days, Vach chose none. “You can have super speed or strength or see through walls, but that’s not the same as being human; you’ve taken yourself out of who you are.”

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Cover story

It's not what you buy, it's where you find it

In the Garage a La Crosse shopping spree

By Ben Clark

benjamin.clark@secondsupper.com

It’s Saturday. The sky is clear; it’s 75 degrees with a slight breeze. A perfect day to spend outside rummaging through all of the different garage and yard sales going on that day in the city. I stopped at an ATM before I left on my adventure, pulling out $60 to get me through the day. I figured this would be ample to cover my fares for the afternoon. With my trusty list of sales advertised at the La Crosse Tribune and from Craigslist, I was set to see what La Crossians were trying to get rid of and make some extra cash on the side.

The first sale I found was being held by two young college girls basking out in the sun as strangers came up and looked at their items.

Next to pathway to the door was a sign stating that all of the proceeds from the day’s sale would go to breast cancer research. In the realm of hosting garage sales in our ever diminishing economy, this type of charity was rare and refreshing to witness. Most of the items were designed with people who don’t possess a Y chromosome in mind, but glancing through the cookware, I found something that I’ve been looking for quite some time…a stainless steel steamer! I eagerly rushed up and presented the

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steamer and asked how much. “For that…$1.”

I was ecstatic! I paid and wished them best of luck with the rest of the sales, and tossed in another buck into their donation bucket. I returned to the van and continued on my trek.

As I turned the corner, I found another sale not two blocks away from the previous one. I pulled up and got out to begin my rummaging. This sale had particularly more items and a much more varied selection. As I marveled at an antique pet carrier (complete with a see-through glass top!) and some old La Crosse Oktoberfest buttons, I saw them: a Star Trek mystery board game and a vintage 1966 board game entitled “What Shall I Be? A Career Game For Girls.” Oh. My. God. Yes. After getting stuck in Decorah, Iowa last week for reasons I don’t want to get into, I had the fortuitous luck of running into a Duran Duran board game which I picked up for $18, and later discovered to be worth around $130. Seeing this old game, I hoped that my purchase would be worth it. I mean, how often do you find a game which reminds women that the only suitable careers for them is to be an actress, a ballerina, an airline flight stewardess, a nurse, or a model?

Fuck the glass ceiling! I made my way to the table to purchase both games, which came to a total of $25. Happy with my luck so far, I only wondered what other items I would discover.

The first two sales were close to campus, both on the corner of 13th and King. I wanted to get an idea of what the whole city was selling and see if different regions of city would produce wildly different items of selection. I drove down Main Street and turned on Eighth, continuing my way to the area of town most commonly associated with lower income housing. I stopped at a sale on Eighth and Jackson.

This was the first sale in which I saw plants being sold, as well as seeds for a variety of perennials. I glanced through the T-shirts, grabbing an old Garbage Pail Kids Metal Head marked for a dollar. As I made my way into the garage, two high school-aged girls were manning the sales table, talking amongst themselves over the politics that come from going to a public

school. Looking through the DVDs on sale, I found a gem: Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson’s first film on sale for $4. Alright! I presented the two items and pulled Mr. Lincoln from my pocket. I asked them how the sales have been going so far, and they responded that yesterday was their big day. I thanked them and wished them the best of luck for the rest of the day.

I spent the next 45 minutes or so roaming around that area of town, visiting places I’ve never been to before and to be honest, probably wouldn’t go back to. Most of the items that I saw were simply the end result of a combination of years of good ol’ fashion American consumerism and lives moving forward, with people leaving but the stuff that they had remaining behind. Old baby clothes and toys, old college sweatshirts that no longer fit, old knickknacks and house décor items that have long outlived their fashionableness ... all set on top of cheap folding tables, looking for a new home.

As far as weird items go, it was on this side of town in which I saw the most variety of items for sale, including those rotating emergency lights always seen on top of tow trucks and paper delivery cars. Those were cool! Once again, plants were available for sale, this time some raspberry and strawberries. Not seeing anything that I wanted, I moved on.

As I drove around, I found a sale hidden between Fourth and Third, on Johnson. This is the part in which I wish I had emptied out my checking account, and had a couple hundred bucks to throw around. I looked around in awe.

A multi-channel mix table for only $125? A Washburn guitar and custom made bass guitar, each $125? An old Roland midi keyboard? Awesome! This was by far the most eclectic garage sale that I had seen all day, with items ranging from old children’s books and magazines to high-end instruments and sound equipment.

Not to mention, this place had an old oscilloscope on sale for $40! I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I had it, but it would be cool to have…maybe I could use it for party tricks.

I asked her how the sale was going, seeing as this wasn’t the most easily accessible place to

have a market. She explained that the business has been pretty good for the most part, and that this was the first sale that they had attempted in the year and a half in which they had moved to the house. I wished her luck, and sadly, walked away from the sale empty handed.

I felt that I had looked at this side of town long enough and wanted a change of scenery. I traveled down West Avenue heading towards the South Avenue junction, looking for signs.

Just then, I found one — on the corner of 22nd and Ferry. I drove, following the signs and turned onto the road. I looked at both windows trying to find the sale until I hit the end of the road, forcing me to turn back and give it another look. Finally, I found a sign directing me to the back alley for the sale. Kind of hesitant and almost positive that I’ve seen similar scenes like this in movie, I made my way down the alley to the garage. I waved hello and began to look through a pretty small selection of cookware, old exercise tapes, and an old computer. Not really seeing anything, I spied a blender on the table. I picked it up and asked how much. She shook her head, and responded one dollar. Happy, I pulled the dollar out and soon headed back on my way.

For my last stop, I went to a house sitting below the bluffs. Driving through subdivisions, I couldn’t help but notice the substantial difference in the income levels in neighborhoods like this versus those south of Jackson Street.

I stopped at the sale, which coincidentally, had raspberry plants for sale as well, and started to look around. The selection was pretty bland, which considering I was standing in the garage of what could basically be considered an estate, I was surprised and disappointed. Not wanting to leave without making a final purchase, I grabbed an old cowboy hat and handed the lady three bucks. Happy with my day of garage saling, I drove back home to enjoy my newfound wares. As I drove back, I thought about everything I had seen throughout the day, and looked forward to next weekend, when another round of garage sales would start up again.

Happy hunting!

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Global affairs

Living Under North Korea Our South Korean correspondent examines the mood of the people amid nuclear tests, writers' arrests and an aging megalomaniac

By Nate Willer

nate.willer@secondsupper.com “We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.”

— Kim Jong-Il. Apparently the way to make American friends is to just kidnap a pair of American journalists, put them on trial for "hostile acts" and then sentence them to 12 years in a labor camp. I hope they pick me for their next BFF mission.

Perhaps after this article gets printed I will get my chance to get a meet and greet with “The General” (Kim Jong-Il).

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea to the rest of us, has recently been making more headlines than a political sex scandal. North Korea just tested another nuclear weapon, fired a few more short-range missiles, captured and detained some members of the foreign press, and threatened the world with nuclear war. This is all old hat for North Korea. Since the 1950s North Korea has been kidnapping foreigners, threatening anyone and everyone who opposes them and toying with nukes. And just how do South Koreans feel about this? For the most part they could care less. After 50 years of the same antics I’d get a little bored as well. This week I will shed some light on what it has been like living in close proximity to the world’s least understood yet most talked about country.

North Korea has been experimenting with uranium enrichment since the '50s. North Korea conducted its first nuclear weapons test in October 2006. The test was a way to force the United States to engage in direct talks with North Korea. This test was met with harsh criticism from around the globe as well as strict sanctions from the U.N. North Korea’s most recent test was conducted on May 25 of this year, and is thought to be an attempt to strengthen the support for the government so a smooth transition of power can be made between Kim Jong-Il and his son Kim Jong-Un.

Being a man with little regard for his personal safety, I have been roughly 400 miles away from the test site both times. After the first test, I asked a few of my Korean friends what they thought of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, and their reactions and attitudes were rather surprising. Many of them thought nothing of the test and some were even happy about it.They said that when the two countries re-unite North Korea’s nukes would be South

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Korea’s nukes too. The country seems much more critical of the most recent test. There have been several protests staged in Seoul, and when I asked my colleagues about the recent protests and nuclear test, they either requested I didn’t ask them about it again or said they understood why North Korea wanted nukes.

If other countries have them, North Korea should have them too.

This does seem logical; in a fight it is in your best interest to have the same firepower as your opponent. But North Korea seems to have some difficulties feeding its population.

A majority of foreign aid coming into North Korea comes in the form of rice, yet the government continues to funnel a majority of its resources into the military. Great idea, North Korea; a majority of your population is starving, but should they get out of line you can always vaporize them. And if China or South Korea (North Korea’s two main trading partners) decide to cut off your rice supply you can just vaporize them too.

The idea that when North Korea and South Korea re-unite, North Korea will just pass their nukes southward seems a bit naive to me because North and South Korea are still technically at war. And the border between the two countries is the most heavily fortified border in the world. The Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, runs along the 38th parallel. Soldiers from both Korean armies as well as U.N. peacekeeping troops guard the border. Several tunnels have also been discovered along the border. According to the North Korean government these tunnels were "coal" mines, and some of the rocks in the tunnels were actually spray painted black. Another excellent idea, nobody is going to think otherwise, because painted quartz burns just as well as coal…

Not!

In the past 50 years there have been numerous cases of North Koreans attempting to cross the border. None of these border crossings have been acknowledged by the North Korean government and a majority of the crossings have been dealt with at the border; however, in 1968 a group of 30 North Koreans disguised themselves as South Korean soldiers and attempted to assassinate South Korea’s president Park Chung-Hee. The assassination attempt failed due to the incompetence of the North Korean soldiers. The North Korean soldiers were initially spotted crossing the border by a group of civilian lumberjacks. The North

Koreans initially took the lumberjacks hostage and attempted to convince them of the benefits of communism. After the lumberjacks failed to see the benefits of communism, the North Korean soldiers released them with a stern warning NOT to notify the police. Well, fortunately for the president the lumberjacks immediately went to the police and security was beefed up around The Blue House (the South Korean President’s House), and their assassination plan was doomed before it really got rolling.

I wish I was making this stuff up, but that seems to be the way nearly every villainous plot is foiled in movies — which is either a brilliant ruse on the part of North Korea to make the world believe they are truly inept at their goals for world domination so we merely scoff at them until the day when they launch an all out assault on the free world. Or the Kims are truly insane and have no idea what they are doing.With any luck Kim Jong Il’s son Kim JongUn’s apple fell a bit further from the tree. That is rather unlikely because he is Kim Jong-Il’s third son, which means that after two failed attempts to conceive a reasonably sane heir, Kim Jong-Il finally hit pay dirt with his third spawn.

The one thing North Korea seems to excel at is the kidnapping of foreigners. From 1977 to 1983, 16 Japanese citizens were taken from coastal cities throughout Japan. North Korea initially denied kidnapping any Japanese, but in 2002 when the then Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi was visiting North Korea, Kim Jong-Il confirmed that 16 Japanese citizens had, in fact, been kidnapped. According to Kim Jong-Il, the kidnappings were carried out by “some people who wanted to show their heroism and adventurism.” Later that year North Korea was kind enough to allow five of the victims to return to Japan under the condition that they would eventually return to North Korea. The five victims — for whatever reason — decided not to return to North Korea. Coupled with the recent capture, trial and sentencing of two American journalists, North Korea is doing fairly well in the foreign hostage abduction department, which is really fantastic since a majority of North Korea's population is malnourished and they need some fresh healthy stock to continue to populate the countryside.

This article may be painting too negative picture of North Korea. There is a lot more to the country than its unstable and slightly insane

leader. However, little is known about North Korean citizens. I’ve lived in South Korea for nearly three years and I have never met a North Korean. And from what I have been told about them, they are not allowed to discuss their lives or their government with foreigners.

They are also not permitted to freely travel to South Korea, or most of the world. They are allowed to travel to China, but strangely in the 30 minutes I spent in the Hong Kong airport I didn’t encounter any North Koreans. I guess painted quartz won’t buy you a plane ticket.

From what I have gathered through the various articles I have read about North Korea that didn’t pertain to Kim Jong-Il, 20 percent of men between the ages of 17 and 54 are in the regular armed forces with a majority of the rest of the men enlisted in the reserves. I guess the rest of the men are working night and day painting rocks and developing a space program (Kim Jong-Il's excuse for firing rockets over Japan).

Most girls and women spend most of their lives practicing for and participating in the annual Mass Games. North Korea’s Mass Games are an annual celebration held to celebrate the founding of the nation and the birthdays of both Kim Il-Sung (Kim Jong-Il’s father) and Kim Jong-Il. Mass Games are large-scale gymnastics performances, in which tens of thousands of performers do a highly regimented and choreographed routine while surrounded by tens of thousands of card-turners who are also a part of the show. Group dynamics are the emphasis at Mass Games celebrations instead of individual efforts. So North Korean women are just as active as North Korean men when it comes to promoting national unity.

With that said I really do not feel like my life is in any sort of grave danger here. And from what I have heard from my South Korean friends neither do they. Because most South Koreans still feel that North Korea and South Korea are one country and more importantly one People. Among older Koreans especially, there is still a sizeable part of the population that remembers life before the split. Since I have yet to meet any North Koreans I feel like a majority of them share that sentiment. I wonder if this is what America would be like had the North not won the Civil War and instead it ended in a truce. That would be like blaming me for NASCAR, Jeff Foxworthy or G. W.’s presidency.

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The director behind acclaimed films such as Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy has thrown his hat into the ring of literature. Considering the magnificent visuals and dank atmospheres which permeate his movies, the idea of Guillermo del Toro writing anything at all naturally brings with it high anticipation, but a trilogy of vampire novels seals the deal. The Strain plays the opening notes of this opera, ultimately bringing back the old school monster vampire front and center, sweeping away all the teenage romance that has clogged the genre’s arteries, and then evolving the beast.

The most important word in the previous sentence, however, is ultimately. Despite the promise which this book holds, its opening is very poorly written. This has nothing to do with the story itself, which even in its early stages sweats suspense. The opening act’s glaring fault is in its tendency to overexplain everything, to turn every medical piece of trivia into a lecture. Acronyms are quite glaring, written longform first with the abbreviated form following in parentheses. Having “severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)” or “personal alert safety system (PASS)” in a sentence really busts it up. Yet an even worse offense comes in the description of the solar eclipse which serves as a plot point. The authors spend an

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entire page describing how its proper term is “occultation,” being that the earth is the object in eclipse. Fair enough, but what becomes ludicrous is that every single person from then on refers to the solar eclipse as an occultation. The authors’ overbearing hits its breaking point here.

Things do catch up, though, and soon The Strain hits a stride on par with the godfather of the leech stories, I Am Legend. Beginning the tale with a landed plane that mysteriously goes dark with everyone inside, The Strain’s authors let the anticipation boil before sending their monsters into the wilds of New York.

As the danger grows, a pair of scientists from the Center for Disease Control team up with a rat catcher and a gnarled old Van Helsingtype to fight back. Like I Am Legend, this story approaches its horrors with eyes of science, incorporating the old superstitions into rational theories – which takes nothing away from these creatures’ ability to terrify.

If the rest of this series is written like the end of its first book, Guillermo del Toro could become the best thing to happen to the vampire in decades. It should be taken for granted that he would turn this story into an amazing film.

— Brett Emerson

Powder Blue (2009)

Oh hi, right now I’m listening to the latest compilation put out by the French record label Kitsuné Music. Labels such as DFA, VICE Records, Ed Banger Records and Dim Mak along with Kitsuné have all staked a claim for being the soundtrack for the coked out underground hipster party scene of the 2000s coming out of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Greenpoint and Williamsburg, LA’s Silver Lake and Los Feliz, Wicker Park and Buck Town in Chicago and whatever the equivalent is in London and every other major cultural center in the Western world. These labels don’t seem content to just put out remixes on 12” vinyl, but instead seek to create entire lifestyles for twenty-somethings, combining their music with clothing lines, books and linking up with online photoblogs such as cobrasnake.com and lastnightsparty.com to show up to the minute fashions and trends from the nightlife of the painfully fabulous.While this music is too unfamiliar to make a dent on any of the dance floors in La Crosse, in metropolitan areas, this stuff is lighting up packed houses that are off the beaten track filled with sweaty throngs of party people.

Kitsuné launched in 2002 in Paris, and has put out albums by bands such as Hot Chip, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Alan Braxe, Fischerspooner, Boys Noize,Wolfmother,Yelle, Bloc Party, Klaxons, and Simian Mobile Disco, to name just a few, but their true party anthems are contained on their Kitsuné Maison Compilations, of which there are now 7 volumes, the first released in

October of 2005. Many of the performers on these compilations seem to be influenced by Daft Punk’s update of house and electro that became known as French house, while a lesser extent tend to play the retro post-punk music that Spin magazine can’t get enough of the past handful of years. The part about hipsters that I find most intriguing is the self conscious loathing that seems to exist among those who are considered to be one, though would never admit such a thing. An entire cottage industry has sprung up on hipster hating, which is primarily made by hipsters for the amusement of other hipsters, and probably not of interest to anybody else. Starting with the hipsterhandbook. com in the early part of this decade along with the satire book that came out with the same name, a new subculture pastime was brought to the attention of the masses. Following on it’s heels were websites such as hipstersareannoying.com, hipsterrunoff.com and latfh.com all with the purpose of scoffing at the desperate attempts of posturing fashion mongers. As a person who has spent all of my twenties living smack dab in the middle of some of the biggest hipster indigenous zones out there, I find these sites hysterical, as I have seen hundreds of these characters showing up at parties where the above mentioned music is being pumped out. Good jams, even if the biggest fans tend to be somewhat silly and fleetingly fickle, always looking for the next thing.

— Shuggypop Jackson

Director:Timothy Linh Bui Cast: Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker Writer:Timothy Linh Bui and Stephane Gauger OK, OK, I'd be lying if I said nude Jessica Biel had nothing to do with my decision to watch Powder Blue. I also love the type of bleak ensemble drama Powder Blue was marketed as, the kind that makes you feel miserable, like Alejandro González Iñárritu's Death Trilogy (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel), for example.

An attempt at capturing those films' essence of despair and redemption, Powder Blue mistakes contrived melodrama for profound emotional intimation. It's a mistake that somehow earned Crash (2004) a Best Picture Oscar, though that film had an underlying theme and resoluteness holding it together. Powder Blue is too loose and awkward — undermining some enjoyable visuals and decent performances — and in the end, its mediocrity can't be masked by its melancholy-feigning sleight of hand.

It's Christmastime in Los Angeles. Enter four over-thought characters interconnected by misery and misfortune. There's Rose Johnny (Biel), a stripper whose son is in a coma; Jack (Liotta), a mysterious ex-con; Charlie (Whitaker), a drifter looking for someone to kill him; and Qwerty (Eddie Redmayne), a social outcast mortician. Of the four leads, only Whitaker brings his A-game, a lost cause since his storyline, unconnected with the others, serves

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zero purpose. Supporting players like Patrick Swayze as Biel's trashy manager, Lisa Kudrow as a friendly waitress, and Alejandro Romero as a transvestite hooker add enough depth to make the film watchable. Something's not right when characters with a fraction of screen time are more interesting and well-developed than the leads.

Therein lies Powder Blue's biggest problem: the main characters seethe with a shell of try-hardness that makes them virtually inaccessible, whereas the less-important characters' struggles feel natural, simple and resonant. Even though the filmmakers couldn't create believable characters, at least they immersed them in a ravishing, color palette-soaked,Wong Kar-wai kind of setting. If writer-director Timothy Ling Bui hadn't let the film get overrun by cancerous melodrama, then Powder Blue might be something more than a second-rate Crash clone. As is, it's a spotty exercise in nihilism, unabashed in its willingness to say absolutely nothing.

You can only watch so many scenes in which characters break down in isolation to signify that we're supposed to feel sorry for them. It's like shameless Oscar bait, only less enjoyable.

(Powder Blue is now available on DVD)

— Nick Cabreza

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I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword "They Were in That?"--you gotta start somewhere.

Answers to Issue 167's "Enjoy the Silence"

By Matt Jones Across 1 ___ nova 6 "What's Happening!!" character 9 Mister Rogers 13 Reversed 14 Space opener 15 Reside 16 "How to ___ Book" (1940 book of literary guidelines) 17 His film debut was a bit part in "Donnie Darko" (2001) 19 His film debut was as Billy Crystal's son in "City Slickers" (1991) 21 "___ Yuppie Scum" (T-shirt slogan) 22 "The ___-Weed Factor" (John Barth novel) 23 California State Route 1 along the shore, for short 26 Ready to serve 30 Knuckleheaded 34 Fire in the blood 35 His film debut was in "Curly Sue" (1991) as a sort of villain out to get the title girl 37 Half-moon tide

39 Acid in proteins 40 "M*A*S*H" actress 41 His film debut was as a subway thief in "Heartburn" (1986), with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson

44 Prefix before friendly 45 "La Boheme," e.g.

46 Start of el calendario 47 Toon dog of the 1990s 48 Racecar driver

Foyt and CNN host Hammer 50 Prompt 52 His film debut was as the Dog-Faced Boy in "Big Top Pee-wee" (1988) 60 His film debut was

as Woody Allen's college-aged son in "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993) 61 "What am I gonna do this time?"

62 Early Peruvian 63 45-across selection 64 Composer Camille Saint-___ 65 New Mexico art colony 66 Bumped into 67 Spaghetti western composer Morricone Down 1 ___ Dubai (world's tallest skyscraper, as of 2009) 2 ___ Day vitamins 3 Mt. Rushmore's loc.

4 Agreed (with) 5 Slow compositions 6 Film geek's spool 7 Johnson of "LaughIn" 8 Prostitute's clients 9 Squiggles in one's vision 10 Capital on the Baltic 11 First name in mo-

torcycle stunts 12 Rec room 14 Where J is represented with a moving pinkie: abbr.

18 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff 20 Gossipy sorts 23 Liberal, epithetically 24 Radiohead hit of 1992 25 Lose it?

27 Home of ASU's main campus 28 Bird-related 29 British coins 31 Less shopworn 32 7UP competitor 33 He sang about Bennie 36 Force through intimidation 38 Amazonian chompers 42 Malaysia's current prime minister ___ Tun Razak 43 Part of a jokey coin flip proposition 49 "Get outta here!"

51 Actor Hawke 52 Eric of 2009's "Star Trek"

53 ___ Domani 54 "The Way ___" (Timbaland song) 55 "Think nothing ___" 56 Deg. for a grad student in film studies 57 Spooky sign 58 Rajah's wife 59 "This touches me ___ many levels" 60 Bump on the forehead, perhaps?

Š2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548.

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Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5 $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $7.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY

happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.

Chili Dogs

Tacos

Fish Sandwich

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Fish Fry $6.95

All day (everyday!) specials $3 Double Captain & Cokes $2 Double rails $1 Cans of beer

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2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.

LUNCH BUFFET $6.95 Tacos

Shooter’s

Tailgators

double $6.50

2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.

happy hour all day

$4 domestic pitchers

Tacos $1.25

15 cent wings

HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM $2 Bacardi mixers

$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints

Bucket Night 5 for $9

closed

11-3: Extra side with sandwich 4-9: $1 off rib dinner

Special varies

11-3: Barn burner $7.95 4-9: Hobo dinner (serves 2) $30.95

$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots

$1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/ PBR taps all day $1.75 rails 10 - 1

$2 domestic bottles 7 - 12, $2.50 Skyy/ Absolute mixers 10-1 $2 Dr. drinks

$1 Point special bottles

$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness

$1.75 domestic bottles

$2.25 Pearl st. pints $1.50 PBR bottles

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

$2 Rolling Rocks $2 domestic beer

8 - CL $1.50 rails $1.75 Bud cans

$1 shots of Dr. $2.50 Polish

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

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Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas

family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age

$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs

5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 11-3 $7.95 Chicken on fire 4-9: Bones & briskets $13.95

$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers

15 cent wings

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 1/2 Chicken 3 bones $12.95

$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12

$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs

Thursday

Friday

$2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish

$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)

Thursday

Saturday

Friday

Saturday

any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)

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Entertainment Directory 6/18 - 6/24

Thursday, June 18

June 20 continued

Mississippi Explorer Riverboat Fayme Rochelle and Friends 6:30

Nighthawks Johnny Shotglass and the Hitmen

The Root Note Open Mic Night

7:00

Starlite Lounge Som'n Jazz

Popcorn Tavern Abbey Lane

10:00

Nighthawks Dave Orr's Damn Jam

10:00

Canned Foods And Donations Encouraged 10:00 9:00

The Warehouse The Fast Track, with Lights Out Dancing, This Building and Rogue the Wolf 7:00 Sunday, June 21

Starlite Lounge Kies & Kompanie

5:00

Howie's Karaoke

Popcorn Tavern Som'n Jazz

8:00

Riverside Park Band Shell Jazz in the Park 7:00

10:00

Ike's Jabber Jaws Palm Sunday Jam with Adam 8:00

Ye Old Style Inn Cheech and Friends Cruz-In Adam Palm Trempealeau Hotel Ditch Lilies

7:00

Monday, June 22

7:00

Popcorn Tavern Shawn's Open Jam

Friday, June 19 Popcorn Tavern Defcon 5

10:00

JB's The Sharp and Hawkins Band

10:00

Piggy's Blues Lounge Shufflin’ Duprees Howie's Comedy The Waterfront Larry Price Trio The Root Note Ari Herstand Train Station BBQ Joe and Vicki Price Cavalier Lounge Bad Axe River Band

8:00

State Room Geared Under

10:00 9:00

Tuesday, June 23

8:00

The Joint Open Jam

8:30

The Root Note Jazz Night

10:00

Popcorn Tavern Mitch's Open Jam

10:00 8:00 10:00

9:30

Nighthawk's Howard Luedtke & Blue Maxx10:00

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