Another One of Wandering Earl's Money-Making Schemes?

What I love about the sign is he uses the correct form of "it's".  No, what I really love about the sign is the pure chutzpah.

Uh-Oh, part II: Visiting Hours

Note: The visitor in Sly's bed is definitely NOT Rex. His (or her) resemblance to any Clock member, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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"subtle, detailed, and rapturously entertaining mayhem"

A summary of two terrible ideas for saving the music industry (as proposed by virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, in his often-interesting book You Are Not A Gadget).

I have to admit that my love for the music of The Bad Plus is difficult to separate from my love for pianist Ethan Iverson's blog Do The Math, by my estimate one of the very best things online. It doesn't help matters that he reads the same crime novelists I do. When he loses me with musical erudition, I have our shared enthusiasm (mania) for Thomas Perry to fall back on.

Another reason why purchasing those Oyster Cards was a good idea: the cool secret game we didn't realize we were playing.

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Psychic who led officials on failed search won't face charges

Read in the Denver Post:

HOUSTON — Authorities will not file charges against a woman who claimed to be a psychic and sent the local sheriff's department, the FBI and the Texas Rangers on a hunt for dozens of bodies she said were buried at a home northeast of Houston.Liberty County sheriff's Capt. Rex Evans says the woman will not be charged because she did not act with malice or criminal intent.

No word yet on my lawsuit against Jean Dixon.
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Feral Boy May Not Be a Paranoid Crazy After All

Man can't live by bread alone, because it will kill you.

Colorado Crime

Thankfully, here in Snowmass Village I am distanced from the ravages of urban crime, as found in Colorado's larger cities. Cases in point:

I pita the fool that messes with me....

A woman arrested after a pita-throwing incident said Wednesday she disputes the Boulder Police Department's version of events.

Boulder police arrested [the] woman on an outstanding warrant after she was accused of chucking her pita sandwich at a cab driver in a fit of anger. She brought attention to herself when she threw her food at the cab driver, splattering tzatziki sauce on his face and in his beard and making a mess of his cab, according to a police report. Witnesses told police she was angry that he wouldn't allow her to have food in his cab. The cab driver opted against filing charges against Lane.

Lane told the Camera that, after a few drinks with friends, she stopped to get a gyro and then went to get a cab. As she was entering the cab, the driver yelled that she couldn't bring her food inside the taxi.

When she exited, Lane said, she made the mistake of using an expletive, which prompted the driver to get out of his cab and snatch the gyro out of her hand. She said she doesn't remember what happened next, but her friends saw the driver throw the pita at her.
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18270747
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18284202#ixzz1Q7dJfcFp

Boulder Cops Seek Yoga-Fest Toilet Lurker

Boulder police are looking for a tall young man who escaped capture while "covered in feces" after he contorted himself inside a portable toilet at the Hanuman Yoga Festival on Friday.

A woman had gone inside to use the toilet when she suspected someone was hiding in the well-used bowl beneath a tarp, police said Tuesday. A security officer waited outside until a shirtless, shoeless man came out stained with human waste. When the officer tried to stop him, he made a run for it and got away.

Witnesses told police he might be a local transient who uses the name Sky. He is described as white, about 20 years old, between 6 feet 4 inches and 6 feet 8 inches tall with a thin build and short, dark hair. Witnesses said he had cuts on his back and legs and was wearing leather bracelets on each wrist.

Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel told the Daily Camera that police are not sure how he was able to squeeze into the tank or what he was doing there. He is being sought on charges of criminal attempt to make unlawful sexual contact.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18326586?utm_medium=facebook

Bonus, non-Colorado, crime:

Amish Man Accused of Sexting Girl, 12

An Amish man who sent hundreds of sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl was arrested last week when he drove a horse and buggy to an Indiana restaurant where he had arranged a rendezvous with the child, according to police.

Yoder’s contact with the girl began with a random text sent to her phone. When the child’s parents learned of their daughter’s contact with Yoder, they took control of her phone and continued communicating with Yoder, who sent about 600 texts, as well as nude photos and explicit videos to the girl. In one text, Yoder told the girl that, “the proposed sex act would happen inside the buggy,” according to a Connersville Police Department report.

The parents then contacted the police, and officers took over the sting operation. After arranging the Wednesday night meeting, cops staking out the Takehome restaurant reported seeing “the outline of a carriage type buggy pulled by one horse and what appeared to be one occupant.”