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Updated on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 12:14 pm

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Black Friday was my birthday ... I decided to actually brave the crowds and go shopping.  I strategically picked that shopping area on Rosedale with Target, Walmart, Best Buy, etc., so I could kind of kill a bunch of birds with one stone. My first stop was Best Buy - I was on a mission to...
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Should mankind have to colonize outer space in order to keep our species alive? One scientist thinks so... -n.l. www.nlbelardes.com
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The bipartisan glow that swathed the Capitol this year may give way to partisan rancor, as combative conservative Michael Villines prepares to lead Assembly Republicans in the next legislative session, political observers say. Villines, a Clovis Republican who was raised in San Jose, seized...
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Conservative Freshmen: Even as Republicans stuck with the status quo in their leadership elections, the tiny 13-member GOP class of 2006 elected conservatives to three of its four leadership positions. The 13 new GOP congressmen elected three of its four class officers who had been backed by the...
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They are everywhere! I regularly wipe my workspace with Lysol wipes because when I leave some random person or another will sit here and contaminate my area.  Yuck.  I'm also really good about washing my hands immediately after I sneeze or cough, or blow my nose ... or take a shit or...
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Hey all out there in Bako town.. I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving and looking forward to the wonderful Holiday Season. As some of you know my daughter is putting on a benefit concert to help the millions of people that suffer from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.. It’s OK if you...
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(A beloved oldie but goodie) "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." Charles Dickens My heart sometimes breathes on paper. It pours stuff out that I didn't even know was there, way deep down in the bottom of the well, ...
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I do. This original song features Bakersfield's own Michael C., who helped me take another original song, Black Santa to #21 on the top 30 mp3 charts last Christmas.  It is connected to my DONATE 2 DOWNLOAD program, one of the simplest programs whereby you get something good for...
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I actually wrote this about a week ago, but never posted it. I like it, especially the stanza with the thumb twisting in it. + = + = + = + = + The dark frightens me The underbed creatures And the creepy thing that Lives in the Crystal Doorknob Of my Childhood closet…. They all...
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And she thought she would have to wait until at least next week. No, no, no, no, no. This one is hot off the presses: The Space Between  I long to touch That little triangle - The one formed by Your collarbone And the space, between   It is soft A vulnerable Sweet pocket ...
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Bakersfield's Blackboard Free Press is coming back into existence? What could this mean? Newspapers on every street corner? Media gunfights on Eye Street? It's like an old Honky Tonk rising from the dusty Central Valley topsoil, only this in the form of parchment. In an email to N.L. Belardes...
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So Gollum has now moved into the cubicle caddy corner to me.  Or the Gerbil is possessed, I'm not sure. Another co-worker came to visit me from the other side, as we were talking the Gerbil started making odd squeaky hissing voices, and talking much like the pale ring obsessed one who was...
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Baby got BIFF 2.0...?  Read what you might have missed on the local film festival and Noveltown's cinema of the lords... -n.l.
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I realize that I'm a bit late on this discussion, but every now and then I see it brought up by some idiot stand up comic or radio dj who think they are the authority on what is happening in the world. Earlier this year the planetary body in our solar system known as Pluto was officially declared...
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