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LAST NIGHT, THE CHURCH WAS SHUTDOWN BY CLEVELAND VICE DETECTIVES, IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTINUE THE CENSORSHIP OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC VENUES THROUGH LEGALITY AND CLASS POLITICS. THE HEAD VICE DETECTIVE ACTUALLY SAID, “I GUESS SOMEONE HAS A VENDETTA AGAINST YOU.”

HE EVEN HINTED THAT THIS ACTION WAS PROMPTED BY TREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE CDC THAT PROMOTES SMALL BUSINESS, AND COMMUNITY IN THIS HISTORIC DISTRICT. THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THAT IS INDEED TRUE IS POINTLESS, REALLY WE WERE OPERATING UNDER FISCAL DISTRESS FROM THE GET-GO. WE WERE DOING THIS IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE INTERESTING ART TO A CITY SUFFERING THE STIGMATA OF STILTED THINKING. A CITY, SCORNED BY THE NATION AS A STRUGGLING LITTLE TOWN. EVEN OUR OWN RESIDENTS HAVE LOST HEART, AND NO ONE SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO BREAK THE APATHY THAT HAS SETTLED IN.

ON THE POLICE COMPLAINT REPORT A NAME AFFILIATED WITH TREMONT AND ITS BLOCK CLUBS SHOWED UP, ALTHOUGH I WOULD LIKE TO DIVULGE THE NAME- THAT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE. I’LL SAY ONLY THIS- SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT OF TREMONT WANT TO OPEN A REC-CENTER, AND YOUTH MUSIC HALL IN CLARK FIELDS. THIS PROJECT WOULD NOT BE AS SUCCESSFUL IF WE ABLE TO GO ABOUT OUR BUSINESS.

SO, EVEN WITH THE PROPERLY FILED PERMITS WHICH WOULD COST US SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS, AND THE PROPER TAX ID ACCOUNTS THAT WOULD KEEP US IN LINE WITH THE IRS IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT WE WOULD STILL BE PERSECUTED, AND SCORNED FOR OUR VENUE. I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS, BUT I WILL WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU THAT HAVE SUPPORTED OUR SPACE, YOUR SPACE- TO THE BANDS WHO WERE COMING OUT FOR SHOWS- WE APOLOGIZE FOR OUR CITY. WE WISH YOU THE CREATIVE SPEED TO CARRY ON.

6:37AM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH
R.A. WASHINGTON

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If No News Is Good News, Then I Have Some Bad News

Parma Has Been Around for 100 Years… Do You Care?

The Plain Dealer is reporting that there’s a local Cleveland dork, I mean historian who has been collecting valuable artifacts dating as far back as 1907. Sure this isn’t really that big of a deal, but is it a big deal that anyone cares about a trolly ticket from Parma? Absorb the paradox.

Legacy Village Now Offers Even More Excitement

As if rich people don’t have enough problems, now they have to deal with, can you believe this, deer, beavers, and bears (yes, bears). In Lyndhurst, city officials have passed an ordinace that allows any private or public land owner who owns more than 10 acres to hunt these wild critters. The catch is, the only places that own that much land in Lyndhurst are Legacy Village, the Cleveland Clinic, and two country clubs. So put on your best polo and flip-flops, grab your rifle, and grab a mocha-double-latte after you bag your first buck.

Reporting on a Gay Bathhouse Really Strokes the Scene’s… Ego

Everyone’s favorite “ultra-progressive” rag, The Scene, reports on two men attempting to create a gay batthouse in Cleveland, and all the struggles that come with that. Fair enough, good for them, but what is great about this piece is how within the first two paragraphs, the Scene gives itself a proverbial handjob for being “non-mainstream” and being the type of press that the two men highlighted in the article WOULD talk to. Bravo, Scene staff, you’re so insprirational.

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