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Updated on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 12:02 pm

It looked like any other unfortunate night when I was “stuck” at home due to car difficulties. I surrendered to that fact early on and made the choice to create something unique in this night, something far reaching and soulful.   I decided to build another fire in my fireplace...
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You may have wondered where I have been? Busy, as always - and add to that the NaNoWriMo writing fest. November is National Novel Writing Month and I have been participating, working on a novel with the working title "Seems Perfect to Me." I have crossed the word count finish line...
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I'm sure that by now you've heard that, while other retailers are bringing Christmas back, Best Buy is digging in their heels and sticking to their anit-Christmas bias, officially banning the use of "Merry Christmas," it all of its ads, in favor of the more politically correct,...
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Come to BIFF to see the first documentary on the Lords of Bakersfield, "Chronicle of the Lords". (a hectic films production an n.l. belardes film) And you thought my fiction novel creeped you out? November 24-25. www.nlbelardes.com
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Country Kitchen at 813 North Chester Avenue is offering free Thanksgiving Day feasts between 10am and 2pm on Thanksgiving Day only. So tell your friends who need some turkey lovin'... Call Renan Polanco for details: 661.391.9967
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I was amazed by the pics in the Daily Mail news today out of the U.K.: gestating critters. I wonder what such pics will do for the anti-abortion argument: If animals in the womb are precious, are then humans? Interesting topic. image © Channel 4 www.nlbelardes.com
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-Bakotunes welcomes Los Angeles queercore punks, The Munchers! -Get to know two of The Munchers: Megan and Trandrew! -Trandrew (drums,) talks about being a "lesbro," and the mission of The Munchers...PARTYING!! -Vocalist / guitarist, Megan Muncher, talks about her Bakersfield...
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    Bakersfield's new free press.    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH Announcing The Arrival of a New, Free Press Paper  With Bakersfield growing in leaps and bounds, becoming more diverse, (in step with it's ever widening girth) one would think this town...
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Red Carpet, flash bulbs and couture clothing - what am I talking about, The 2006 American Music Awards. Held at the gorgeous Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles, the American Music Awards showcased some of the best names in popular music today.   Even better, I was there with three...
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It's Thanksgiving eve. Yay! I love Thanksgiving.  I love the food... gawd do I love the food, but I especially love spending it with my family. So since it is Thanksgiving eve, I thought it'd be fun to list a few things I'm thankful for: 1. My baby nephew. He seriously brings a smile to my...
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More like too fast ... The last few weeks I've noticed that around 6:30 every evening a BCSD bus flies past my house toward H St.  I'm serious, it really flies - fallen leaves scrambling around in its wake. This bus is always going so fast I can't even catch the number ... wish my bus...
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I didn't even bother to remember his name because at the time, I thought it was a big hoax.  But apparently Chapman University, in Suisun, California had done their homework and determined that his story was legitimate.  He was a special guest presenter at a staff meeting---a...
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I was too young to speak, let alone to capture the significance and profound sense of shock that gripped the world immediately following the news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  I do recall seeing the flag-draped coffin being carried solemnly by pallbearers on the...
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-Accordian-slinging rockera poet, Julieta Venegas! -Recorded 11 - 17 - 06, at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, CA! -Venegas kicks off U.S. tour in support of her latest CD, "Limon Y Sal!" -Born in Long Beach, CA, Julieta Venegas was raised in Tijuana, MX, and now lives in...
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-Jaime "Taboo" Gomez of The Black Eyed Peas! -Recorded 11 - 7 - 06, from Porto Alegre, Brazil, before the group's appearance in Bakersfield, on November 30th! -Taboo opens up to Bakotunes and Mas Magazine, to talk about how he became a hip-hop superstar right off dancefloors of...
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