Wednesday, January 30, 2013

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Real Tacos
$4.99 at Excel Food and Fuel, Bay and S. Dale Mabry Hwy Tampa.
Great food from a c. store.

“Trouble” and “The Ladies


Tampa reconsiders urban chicken rules.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Kathy Castor immigration reform press conference in Ybor City

Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony In Ybor City

There were emotional moments during Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Ybor City.

Words From The Tampa BookWorm

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Local Hero Mark Tillery


Tracking down Mark Tillery isn't hard. Monday through Thursday, the retired autoworker can be found volunteering at the Salvation Army St. Petersburg Area Command. He could be in the nonprofit organization's free cafe serving coffee to patrons. Or outside in the Garden of Hope, harvesting vegetables used in the Army's kitchen for its feeding program.
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Happy Birthday Sarah


Stogie's favorite singer is 45 years young today. She has a new album out.
I hope she visits us again soon. Enjoy.
Sarah McLachlan

Steps Forward for the chronically homeless in Tampa

Steps Forward got its start two years ago after Tampa Tank Inc. chief executive officer Calvin Reed told then-Mayor Pam Iorio about a good homeless assistance facility he saw in Texas. In response, Iorio and County Administrator Mike Merrill organized a study group of a few local officials
and business executives.
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Friends Of Stogie

In Temple Terrace

The Wacky World of Bruce Barry

Meet local artist Bruce Barry

.Satanists Hail Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott!

Meet the Tampa Bay Etsy Crew

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Anybody But Higginbotham

Hillsborough Commission District 7 Seat
Names Stogie likes.
Mary Mulhern, April Griffin and Rose Ferlita.
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Why Did the Rooster Cross the Road in Ybor City?

To get to one of the neighborhood’s fine dining establishments, of course.
I can’t believe the City of Tampa isn’t paying me for this stuff.
Finding Tampa

Bill Maher And Howard Dean Clash With GOP Panelists

Wasserman Schultz Is Wrong

Florida Congresswoman, and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told a South Florida crowd the economic embargo on Cuba should remain in place.
It's Time For The U.S. To End Its Senseless Embargo Of Cuba.
The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry, once held up millions of dollars in funding for secretive U.S. democracy-building programs in Cuba. Defense Secretary hopeful Chuck Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against the communist-run island "nonsensical" and anachronistic. Both men are now poised to occupy two of the most important positions in President Barack Obama's Cabinet, leading observers on both sides of the Florida Straits to say the time could be ripe for a reboot in relations between the longtime Cold War enemies.
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Help, end the war on the Cuban people, they are being held hostage by a small group of Right-Wing Extremist in South Florida.
Stop The MCM.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

I Hate Tampa Bay

 I am not a big fan of the city of Tampa.  As far as I could tell, the only businesses in Tampa are used car lots, pawn shops, strip clubs, and medical malpractice attorneys.  The baseball stadium sucks.  Ybor City is where the clubs used to be, and it harbored some of the worst music anywhere........Greg Miller the singer of The Whiskey Daredevils, a group of barely talented dead beat no frills rockers.

FLORIDA LETTERPRESS WAYZGOOSE

Hong Kong Willie More Than kitsch

Passers-by traveling south on Interstate 75 at Fletcher Avenue mightwonder:
 'What's up with the lobster buoys?'
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Friday, January 25, 2013

What A Surprise

Hillsborough Denies Domestic Partnership Registry
Commissioners Victor Crist, Ken Hagan, Al Higginbothom and Sandra Murman voted against the motion.
Commissioners Les Miller, Kevin Beckner and Mark Sharpe voted in favor.
It is evident by the vote today that a majority of my colleagues are out of touch with Hillsborough County voters and remain shackled by the unbendable ideology of their political masters,”....Kevin Beckner

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fish And Chips
With Seafood Gumbo
Mid Peninsula Seafood, 400 49th Street South St. Petersburg
Proud to be family owned and operated since 1978!