Archive for: January 2015

Coma Weekly FREECYCLE Digest

Jan. 13 Living no comments
Fb-Button

Freecycling is when a person passes on, for free, an unwanted item to another person who needs that item. From silverware to mobile homes, people worldwide are choosing to freecycle rather than discard.

 

[FreecycleComa] WANTED: Food (expired OK)

Need food to lure raccoons to a raccoon trap.  Raccoons will eat almost anything.  Will travel. Need a lot of food. There appears to be several raccoons and possibly a possum. I’ve gone through all my canned goods and beef jerky. Wife is very unhappy about it. Email me with date and time. Please no responses, “why don’t you go out and buy some more canned food.”. I am not looking for your advice  just your food.

Steve

Northern Racoon in Texas Hill Country, Comfort Texas

[FreecycleComa] OFFER: Rice Cooker Please Read

5 or 6 cup zojirushi rice cooker. Works fine but smells some from some water and rice (moldy) left in it. Please include day and 2 hour pickup window with response. Thanks! This is a good rice cooker I just realized I don’t like rice and don’t want to clean this out. If you are willing to clean it out and deal with the mold smell this rice cooker is fine.

 

ricellama

Want to contact the FreecycleComa moderators?  Write to us at townofcoma (at) gmail.com .
_________________________________________________________________________
Please always use:

– OFFER: old couch– did not sleep with my ex on it (Downtown/courthouse/ in a cell/ on top of a mountain)
– TAKEN: old couch strange stains [to be used to withdraw an OFFER for any reason; only to be posted by the member making the OFFER]

– WANTED: stapler or false teeth [Please use this one sparingly]– Cannot be “wanted mate” or “wanted sex” or “wanted a hot chick”
– RECEIVED: stapler or breast implants [to be used to withdraw a WANTED for any reason; only to be posted by the member making the WANTED]

NEED, PPU, REOFFER, RE-OFFER, etc., are not acceptable keywords, and nothing other than the keyword should appear before the item description.

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed

Sledding Ban, Tax, Licensing Enacted

Jan. 13 News no comments
Fb-Button

By Coma News Staff
Does she got a ticket to sled? She will soon under the Town Council’s enactment this week of a ban, tax, and licensing requirement for the previously carefree winter activity of sledding.
Sledding in Coma parks will be banned while sledders on private property will be required to be licensed and pay a $500 per-child annual fee.
“We wouldn’t allow children to drive through our parks, and certainly wouldn’t allow them to do so without being properly licensed, so consistency is a big driver behind this,” said Councilwoman Natalie Peters who was a leading proponent of the Sled Safety (SS) ordinance.
Effective immediately, sledders will be required to complete an eight week course of class work and real-world sledding lessons from certified instructors.

nosledding
Mayor Dave Anderson said the initiative is about children’s safety and has nothing to do with trying close the town’s $550,000 budget deficit.
“It’s no easy legislative feat to enact the triple threat of a ban/tax/licensing requirement, so we’re pretty proud of the old SS ordinance,” Anderson said.
Councilman Jax Owen was forced to recuse himself from the vote since he operates Sled World, the largest winter amusement park in town.
“Will this impact my business? That’s pretty freaking obvious,” Owen said, when asked about the new recreational regulatory regime.
The ordinance vote also drew a recent-record audience of one resident in opposition.
“I’m still looking for the medication that will allow me to stop caring what these baboons are doing,” Robert McGuiness, a local gadfly, said in an interview after the vote. “Where’s that bloke with the peyote?”

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed

Cartoons Not Scary!

Jan. 08 Opinion no comments
Fb-Button

The following is the opinion of a local resident provided as a community service by Coma News. The opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of Coma News Daily.

Stan Bargmeyer, Retired Widower and Coma News Intern

Contrary to my expectations, I have found that if you practice hard enough, cartoons aren’t so scary. When I was little I saw illustrations of a ghost in a cartoon and it terrified me.

Santa was not hurt in the creation of this cartoon.

Santa was not hurt in the creation of this cartoon.

I told my friend Bob Smith-Smith about some of the scary cartoons while we ate some sausage and grits at Bobby’s Diner in Coma. Bob told me that there are cartoons about fat cats, ones that make fun politicians and that there’s nothing bad that happens when you read them because cartoons aren’t real.
It also feels scary when I see that boy in Calvin and Hobbs ride his sled off a cliff with his pet tiger. But thanks to Bob I now know no child was injured in the making of that cartoon. “Cartoons aren’t real. It’s just a pencil on paper. Bad people are real but cartoons and illustrations are not.”

Even though Dinosaurs are scary they were apparently not at the last supper and did not eat the actual disciple's faces in this picture.

Even though Dinosaurs are scary they were apparently not at the last supper and did not eat the actual disciples’ faces in this picture.

There was a cartoon I saw that had a cannon ball on a guys head. Now I know that doesn’t mean a man’s head somewhere really blew up.
Even though the people in the cartoons aren’t real, apparently sometimes the points they are making are real. Or funny. Bob says that a lot of cartoons are funny and saying something. I don’t know what that fat cat Garfield  is saying he’s always eating lasagna with that not too smart dog.
But the great thing about cartoons is that with enough practice and the bravery to keep looking at them, you will find cartoons aren’t even scary.

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed

Coma Weekly FREECYCLE Digest

Jan. 07 Living no comments
Fb-Button

Freecycling is when a person passes on, for free, an unwanted item to another person who needs that item. From silverware to mobile homes, people worldwide are choosing to freecycle rather than discard.

[FreecycleComa] OFFER: Huge, old, wall to wall carpet and pad

Just thought I’d throw it up here before it goes to the landfill. This is the wall to wall carpet from a 14’ by 21’ room. The color is hard to determine. It’s no doubt quite dusty and rather old (maybe from the 80s?), but in pretty good condition for its age. I know the previous owners had a small dog, but from what I can see on the backside of the carpet, it doesn’t seem to have many stains. Maybe ten. One of the stains looks like wine. Several look like pee and one stain seems to be blood. I think you can get rid of all of this with some excellent carpet stain remover and bleach.

As you can see the blood stain isn't that bad. I'm not sure what happened to make it but I am pretty sure it can be cleaned.

As you can see the blood stain isn’t that bad. I’m not sure what happened to make it but I am pretty sure it can be cleaned.

Hard to imagine that anyone wouldn’t want this since it’s so big and still in one piece, a person could carpet a whole room with it if they didn’t mind the age and need for cleaning.

The pad looks like it has quite a lot of dust/dirt in it, but it’s still, well you know…squishy.

It’s on the curb at our house, so if you want it, let me know and I’ll send the address. I’ve already scheduled bulk pickup for tomorrow morning, so you’ll have to act fast. :)

Amy townofcoma (at) gmail.com

[FreecycleComa] Offer: toaster over / broiler

Used toaster oven that works with some problems It does not broil because the upper coil no longer works.  And because of that, the toasting only occurs via the bottom coil…Baking OK. Should be used for something other than baking or toasting.

toasteroven

email with date and time for pick up

Bob townofcoma (at) gmail.com

 

Want to contact the FreecycleComa moderators?  Write to us at townofcoma (at) gmail.com .
_________________________________________________________________________
Please always use:

– OFFER: old couch– did not sleep with my ex on it (Downtown/courthouse/ in a cell/ on top of a mountain)
– TAKEN: old couch strange stains [to be used to withdraw an OFFER for any reason; only to be posted by the member making the OFFER]

– WANTED: stapler or false teeth [Please use this one sparingly]– Cannot be “wanted mate” or “wanted sex” or “wanted a hot chick”
– RECEIVED: stapler [to be used to withdraw a WANTED for any reason; only to be posted by the member making the WANTED]

NEED, PPU, REOFFER, RE-OFFER, etc., are not acceptable keywords, and nothing other than the keyword should appear before the item description.

 

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed

Podcast: January is the Tryingist Month

Jan. 06 News, Podcast no comments
Fb-Button

It’s 56 degrees, the sun is shining, and no balls were dropped in town this New Year’s Eve.

> Subscribe on iTunes

> Rate & Review on iTunes
> Share with friends and family

>Follow on SoundCloud

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed

Save the World Saves the New Year

Jan. 02 News no comments
Fb-Button

By Coma News Staff
The new year brought new blood to Coma’s leading rock band and primary agents of change.
The band comprised of the town’s political leaders featured for the first time Councilman Jax Owen on lead vocals, as well as a new sound.
“The sixties were great but the simple truth is real music didn’t start until the heavy metal love ballad was invented in the 1980s,” Owen said.
The band led the town’s New Year’s Eve celebration at the Coma Community Center, which eschewed dropping balls for the launch of burning pumpkins to clear the fields south of town of dried corn stalks.

original
“The flames rose high into the night to light the sacrifices rite,” said Dave Anderson, Coma Mayor and lead guitar. “Seriously, good wholesome family fun.”
Councilwoman Natalie Peters, who plays drums and tambourine, dedicated the show to recently retired band member and Town Councilman Bob Smith-Smith.
“He’s gone on to a better place,” Peters said.
Smith-Smith, who also attended the party, assured Coma News he was still alive.
“Instead of saving the whole town through music or politics, I’ve found I get a lot more feedback when I focus on one person at a time with an acoustic guitar,” Smith-Smith said. You can hear Bob Smith-Smith playing various Dylan and Neil Young songs weekly at the Coma Coffee house.

Email, RSS Follow
Email
Share on Tumblr
comments feed comments feed