Doug Van Pelt

HM Blogs Never Feature Enough "News of the Weird"

....or maybe we do. What do you think? Here's the latest press release that caught my eye:


COACHELLA ORGANIZERS OFFER $10, 000 REWARD AND FOUR FESTIVAL TICKETS FOR LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF THE INFLATABLE PIG THAT ESCAPED DURING SUNDAY HEADLINER ROGER WATERS’ SET




COACHELLA organizers are offering $10,000 and four (4) festival tickets for life in exchange for the safe return of the two-story inflatable pig that broke loose during Roger Waters’ set on the final night (Sunday, April 27) of the 2008 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL. The pig escaped and floated into the desert sky just prior to the intermission between Roger Waters’ back-to-back sets--marking the only back-to-back COACHELLA sets by one artist in the critically acclaimed festival’s history.


Anyone with information on the lost pig, should email lostpig@coachella.com.


Is that a little bit bizarre, or what?




A few odds and ends:

-Vote for the one band out of eleven featured in our GMA showcase that should play Cornerstone Festival: click your ballot.

-I met another neighbor 'round here last week. She had left a business card with a note on our office porch, but I waved at her as she was driving away. She was looking for her missing cat. In the course of our conversation I found out that a possum had killed a great rooster they had. It was slinging that bird back and forth in its mouth and also jumping on its body to kill it. She said they'll eat cats. Formerly she used to want to help them live, but now she wants to kill 'em whenever she finds 'em on her land. It could be possums that ate our last five cats. This morning my dog was barking in one of the bathrooms here. I peeled away the velcro panel on the bathtub and saw the nose of either a possum or skunk. I shut the panel too fast to get a good look. I think it was a possum. I need to find a way to get rid of those buggers ... and keep them out for good. This manufactured home that serves as the HM offices is a few feet off the ground and has "skirting" around it to cover the gap. But animals can dig under it and habitate underneath the building, tearing up the insulation and climbing through the fabric layer underneath the home. I wonder if I fumigated the place with some sort of bug-killing "bomb" if it would chase them out from under or if they'd suffocate and die in there -- causing a retrieval problem later. hmmm.

-I need to post the latest issue online today.