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It's been four long years since grunge-rock pioneers Pearl Jam graced St. Louis with their musical presence, but that extended absence was rectified Friday night at an electrifying three-hour performance at Scottrade Center for a packed house of rabid fans.
"I don't want to walk down memory lane," howls Joel Williams of the band Champ. "Burnt Alive" is an anti-nostalgic declaration, though the collision of grunge and febrile pop harmonies more than suggests that this San Diego foursome isn't ready to kiss off the rock 'n' roll past just yet.
One of the greatest of the original wave of grunge bands, Mudhoney is still slugging and sludging its way into rock 'n' roll fans' hardcore hearts. Witness "The Only Son of the Widow of Nain," a heavy track from the forthcoming album "Vanishing Point."
Dinosaur Jr. will hulk back into St. Louis bearing towers of Marshall stacks on August 25 for the third annual LouFest.
After standing in a line that extended around the side of the Tivoli Theater in the U-City loop clear to the back of the adjacent parking lot and into the alley Tuesday evening, we finally took our seats for the sold-out, one-night-only theatrical premiere of the highly anticipated Cameron Crowe documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty."
Twangfest 15 closed at the Duck Room Saturday night with performances by Marah, Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three and the Baseball Project.
With rhythmic, chunky guitar licks and braying vocal meandering, Gold brought its brand of choppy Chicago rock to St. Louis for a live session at KDHX.
With elements reminiscent of grunge, such as crunchy guitars rhythmically strumming over energetic 4/4 beats and angsty vocals conveyed through primal bellows, can Glass Teeth live up to its "cream of the current local hardcore crop in St. Louis" title?
Former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel brought his twangy, darkly expressive songs of love, lust, the road and outlaw philosophy to the KDHX studios.


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Ford's Sync in-car infotainment is about to turn eight, making it one of the most well-established on the market. With version three, it's been completely rebuilt from the ground up.
In what it bills the first developer conference hosted by an automaker during CTIA Super Mobility Week, Ford will run a hackathon where developers can build apps using data sets supplied by Los Angeles.
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They are the lowly sentinels of the suburban backyard, creatures so maligned that they tend to be stolen on a regular basis.
But these days, garden gnomes are big business.
A French group called "The Garden Gnome Liberation Front" popularized the practice of "returning garden gnomes to the wild," stealing them from unsuspecting owners and photographing their adventures around the world. The idea was so kooky, Travelocity eventually built a viral video ad campaign around the now famous Roaming Gnome.
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"Nightline" traveled to the workshop of Shawn Thorsson, a U.S. Navy reservist from Petaluma, Calif. He was on his way to Afghanistan when inspiration struck sometime around 3 a.m.
"I'm on the bridge standing watch where there's nothing out there except for me and the horizon," he said. "And I just started writing down notes for different kinds of goofy concepts that I could come up with for garden gnomes."
Thorsson started to think about those little green plastic Army soldiers he had played with as a kid.
Combat Garden Gnomes were born.
"Aside from the fact that they've got grenades and rocket launchers, they are just like any other garden gnome," he said. "Little red hats and little white beards, the whole show."
This band of heavily armed, small bearded men comes in all the same poses as those toy soldiers: standing rifleman, kneeling rifleman, flamethrower gnome and others. Thorsson said he has sold about 1,500 of these little figurines at $50 a pop through the online marketplace Etsy. All of the gnomes are hand-made in Petaluma. See more of his creations HERE.
"The next one was RPG guy," he said. "I've got one that's sort of the officer with the pistol in the 'follow me' pose, you know, flamethrower gnome."
He has plans for a parachute gnome that will dangle from backyard trees. He is already planning to make special forces garden gnomes. Think Rambo with a shaggy white mullet and Fu Manchu moustache.
"He'll be the first one that has no shirt, just big crisscrossed ammo belts and the M60 machine gun standing there at the ready," Thorsson said.
Or SEALTeam 6 gnomes in full scuba gear crawling their way out of the pond. Thorsson said, "He will be in a wet suit, hunched down, you know, like he's coming up on the beach with his flippers hanging off an arm, little MP5 machine gun."
Quirky garden sculptures are in big demand. Flip-through the Sky Mall catalogue and you'll see they can command top dollar. And Thorsson is not the only gnome maker to take creative license. One of his competitors makes Zombie Garden Gnomes, including a version where the zombie gnomes devour a pink flamingo.
It took a few years for business to catch on, but Thorsson said he now can't make Combat Garden Gnomes fast enough.
"After the first 20 took so long to get rid of I thought, 'well that's a stupid idea, never mind, the world does not need armed garden gnomes," he said. "It turns out after the world found out about them, they do."
And anyone who tries to liberate these heavily armed little lawn ornaments better be prepared for a fight.


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Sandy: 'The new norm'
I listened with shock, and then dismay, last night as NBC News' Brian Williams referred to Hurricane Sandy as "the new norm."
Williams' statement came less than halfway through an NBC special about the storm and was a lead-in for The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore to begin the obligatory discussion about global warming. (Williams went so far as to question whether New York is "the new Amsterdam.")
I've made little secret of the fact that I'm a global warming skeptic. But regular readers of this blog also know that I'm critical of conservatives who dismiss the climate change theory outright. I'm a proponent of bringing both sides to the table to have a non-partisan, common-sensical discussion of the issue. Sadly, that seems impossible. There's no doubt that the earth is warming. There is no doubt that we're having more extreme weather now than in most of recorded history. It's entirely possible that these changes are permanent, and that they're manmade. I tend to believe, and will until someone can convince me otherwise, that these changes are cyclical and that man has nothing to do with them.
Regardless, jumping to proclaim a single weather event as the definitive result of global warming is both foolish and naive. People like Cantore certainly know better, and if people like Brian Williams don't know better, they ought to. But they (the alarmists and their media enablers alike) are too busy pandering to let facts stand in their way.
Fact is, extreme weather events have occurred since the dawn of time. We have records of massive hurricanes slamming what is now New York City and Long Island as far back as the mid 13th Century. The New England Hurricane of 1938 killed 60 people. What about Hurricane Edna in 1954? The Long Island Hurricane of 1821? 1894′s Hurricane Five?
A single superstorm slamming the East Coast is no more evidence of global warming than prolonged cold snaps across the entire hemisphere is evidence of global cooling. To proclaim otherwise — here's looking at you, Al Gore — is asinine.
We were told after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that this was the "new norm." Then we went seven quiet years — some of which featured abnormally calm Atlantic Basin hurricane seasons and some of which featured average numbers of storms but those storms stayed safely away from the U.S.) and heard little talk of global warming in connection with tropical weather. Now we have a perfect storm of sorts slamming the East Coast and this is the new norm.
Never mind that there has been no evidence of the earth warming since the global temperature spike in 1998. This was a storm that killed people, caused billions of dollars in damages and inspired wall-to-wall media coverage, therefore it must be the result of global warming.
So Sandy was the second tropical storm to make near-direct landfall at New York in as many years (Irene made landfall at NYC as a tropical storm in August 2011). And yet these storms don't even start to compare with the frequency of tropical storms that threatened New York in the mid 1950s (Connie and Diane struck in the same month in 1955, causing significant flooding though they didn't make direct landfall on the city). And the frequency of tropical storms to make landfall near NYC in the '00s wasn't as great as the '90s. What new norm?
Move a little further up the coast to New England. Category five — top of the scale — hurricanes struck in 1938 (New England Hurricane) and 1960 (Donna), with category four storms in 1944 (Great Atlantic Hurricane), 1961 (Esther), 1985 (Gloria) and 1999 (Floyd), and category three storms in 1954 (Carol and Edna), 1955 (Diane), 1966 (Alma), 1976 (Belle), 1991 (Bob) and 1996 (Bertha). Note that these were peak intensities; in most cases, the intensity at landfall was weaker. Add them up and there was, on average, a major hurricane that ultimately made landfall in New England every 3.5 years between 1938 and 1966. Since 1966, there has been an average of one every 9.2 years. Since 1999, there have been none.
What new norm?
Look back at that list again. When were hurricanes most frequent around New York and New England in the 20th Century? The 1950s. In fact, there were 10 — look 'em up — major hurricanes to strike the East Coast between North Carolina and New England between 1954 and 1960.
If you're a regular reader here, you might remember that in my winter outlook post a few weeks ago, I pointed out that the current weather pattern is similar to the 1950s. The Atlantic is in its multi-decadal warm cycle; the Pacific is in its multi-decadal cold cycle. When that happens, as we found out in the 1950s, hurricanes tend to strike the East Coast — and New York and New England — more frequently.
That isn't a "new norm." It's a new cycle. It's the '50s all over again. And it has jack to do with global warming.
Update: Reuters calls Sandy "one of the biggest storms ever to hit eastern United States." This is a statement that has been pretty common in the media these past several days. If by its breadth, then, yes, it's one of the biggest ever. If by its intensity and sheer power, it isn't even close. This was, at its peak, a category 1 hurricane. A serious storm, a destructive storm, a deadly storm . . . nothing anyone would want to repeat. But calling it one of the biggest storms ever is a misnomer.
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Hurricane expert Dr. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech has pointed out that what we are seeing this year is the same natural conditions we saw in the 1950′s when a large number of hurricanes struck the east coast:
"Pretty much everyone was predicting below normal activity; revisions on Aug 1 raised the levels to closer to normal activity. Note: I do not make seasonal hurricane forecasts myself.
What happened? A big part of the failed seasonal hurricane forecasts is ENSO. From my post:
Bottom line ENSO forecast: many forecasters think we are headed for El Nino by late summer/autumn. I agree that the most likely scenario is to have the ENSO index positive, it is not clear whether it will stay in neutral territory or make it to El Nino. Note: there is no sign of a Modoki (central Pacific warming), which is more predictable than ENSO.
In an ENSO neutral year, the AMO and PDO have substantial control. At the beginning of the summer:
With regards to AMO and PDO, the AMO index is currently moderately positive, the PDO index is currently moderately negative.
In this regime (which characterized the 1950's), there were a large number of U.S. landfalls, particularly on the Atlantic coast."
Cantore and the weather channel have long since been 'man's fault' Global warming conspirators, so it makes perfect sense that they team up with an outfit such as NBC.
To be frank, all this crap that is continually slung at me from liberal news organizations makes me grab on tighter to Fox News. Oh yea, my guns and my religion too! I am very unlikely to believe much of anything the AP, Yahoo, Reuters, NBC, ABC, & CBS are behind. It shouldn't be this way, but my hand is being forced!
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I'm 55. My parents, grandparents and great grandparents (born in the 19th century) told us kids hair-raising stories of storms that raged and isolated them for days at a time, washed out roads and bridges, whole sections of forests up rooted, fires or floods that comsumed whole sections of towns and cities (sometimes whole cities), 15-foot high snow drifts, snow collapsed roofs. Winds that blew down barns and houses. These events, while unwelcome, were never considered out-of-the normal, they simply happened, People had to be constantly prepared for catastrophic events, because you never got much warning back then. If you weren't prepared, you died. Today's society would not survive conditions of a mere hundred years ago. Playing The Blame Game does nothing to improve your odds, but actually reduces them.
I happened to catch Joe Bastardi (Weather Channel? Fox?) the other day – and he raised many of the same points. The man's passionate about the weather, has been studying it since his childhood, and equated now with the 50′s – warm Atlantic and cold Pacific.
First: "There is no doubt that we're having more extreme weather now than in most of recorded history." is just wrong, even in the 150 or so years of "recorded history" we have available. Seriously. That's not true. Check wattsupwiththat.com
Second: This hurricane isn't even that unusual. Please. The records are available. Just because the MSM ignores them doesn't mean that you have to.
On Yahoo there is a picture gallery that simply called 'Global Warming' and it's full of pictures of the hurricane. People want to blame man for bad weather because then they have a feeling of sense of control and a potential of attaining some semblance of security. All we must do is something, just anything, doesn't matter what so long that we can wash away our guilt with every plastic bottle we recycle and gallon of biofuel we consume. It really is no different than a religion.


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