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  • Fairmont Gardens

    It only seems appropriate the day after I finish toiling the dirt and hauling six truckloads of garden soil from the street into my garden, there’d be an Armageddon styled wind and snowstorm to hit Salt Lake City. In the middle of April. On Tax Day. Ugh. I swore up and down that I wouldn’t…

  • Padre Patrol

    Black Coffee Does anyone drink black coffee anymore? I learned to drink coffee black in college after I poured what can only be described as month old cottage cheese into my cup when I failed to check the expiration date on some cream. It doesn’t hurt that I make the best coffee from only the…

  • Lunch with Ben

    Since the last time I posted was during the midterm elections, I thought it would be fun to throw a couple of things up. Here is some thoughts on Fast and Furious, San Diego Padres, my podcast at the Salt Lake Tribune and a Fiver–a list of five links that should entertain you through lunch.…

  • Election Night Notes for Fitz Whaley Part 2

    Dear Fitz: At 11:15pm and there already is more Democratic bodies on the ground than at Vicksburg. Sherman spared more at Atlanta and Mitt Romney is looking like a hero with the stumping he did for his wretched GOP. Casa de Beaver Goat is under lockdown with the girls cowering in the basement with aluminum…

  • Election Night Notes for Fitz Whaley

    Dear Fitz: Well, it looks like the bastards have taken it to us again. It’s 8:30pm in Salt Lake City but it might as well be 1994 as far as I am concerned. The Democrats have been run out of town on a rail and the Republicans came marching in on a mandate that demands…