Kelly Nolan. Joel Marino. Brittany Zimmerman.

That’s three murders just off the top of my head that have gone unsolved. All three of them young people with bright futures, and it’s starting to make me wonder if Madison might have a serial killer and whether it’s a safe place to live anymore. I personally don’t feel scared of being murdered, but I don’t know how I’d feel about sending my children to college in the Madison area right now.

The Madison Police have given the public very little reason to believe any of those three murders cases will ever be solved, and it leads me to believe the investigators are just incompetent. That’s three murder cases with very few leads, at least that the public knows about, and probably no chance of them getting solved. Maybe I watch too much CSI, but I find that hard to believe. I do realize the police must keep certain information confidential as to not hurt their case, but the public deserves more.

There has been a man living in a red Isuzu Trooper just south of Elver Park, where S. Gammon comes to a dead-end, right next to the garbage cans. I believe he’s been living there since sometime last Summer, which means he toughed out a nasty Winter living in his vehicle. Yikes! The cops must know about him since they frequent that street, but I’m not sure there’s much they can do about it. It’s not like the guy is breaking the law.

I have two issues with this:

1. There is trash on the ground around the area that he parks, but I’ve never seen him actually litter. Regardless, he lives there, so he should pick up around the home.
2. He’s a big guy and it makes me nervous when my girlfriend goes for walks by herself. He more or less keeps to himself, but you never know.

Yesterday, I was walking my dog, and he was laying on his side with his shirt off inside of a sleeping bag. Another time, I saw him washing his hair with a jug of water. It’s not exactly what you want to see on the street you live on.

I went to RollingStone.com last night and I noticed they’re doing a cover story on the MTV show, “The Hills“. RS is clearly selling out to a younger demographic, because this show just flat out sucks ass. First of all, I don’t think anyone really knows whether this show is a reality show, or a scripted show with awful acting. My guess is the latter. RS describes it as…

the real-ish MTV reality drama about L.A. twentysomethings praised as “the most influential show we’ve ever had” by MTV president of entertainment Brian Graden

Real-ish? The only thing that’s half-way real is that MTV got some attractive young girls with zero talent and had them pretend to be on a terribly scripted so-called reality show. Also, if this is the most influential show MTV has ever had, they should hang their heads in embarrassment. Music Television? I think not. Softcore porn? Maybe.

I guess what really burns me is RS is featuring a pile of dung on the cover of their magazine, not because it’s newsworthy, but because it appeals to a particular demographic; which is young girls who are too young to know the show sucks, and young men who are in need of some eye-candy.

The good news is the careers of these actresses will be short-lived, their 15 minutes of fame is just about up. But for now, we have Heidi Montag creating terrible music, her own line of slutty clothing, and doing whatever she can so people don’t forget she exists. Laura Conrad has also put out her own line of clothes. I get the sense these girls are doing whatever they can with their short-lived fame, because once “The Hills” is over, so are their acting careers.

Finally, RS should be a magazine that’s on the cutting edge of what’s hot in the entertainment industry without selling their souls to what might be popular in the teenie bopper world. I’d have no problem with RS featuring “The Hills” if it were a good show, or even Britney Spears, if she could actually sing, and didn’t lip sync, was a responsible parent, stopped taking drugs, wasn’t a complete psycho…..hell, that list goes on forever. Bad example, except how many times has she been on the cover of Rolling Stone?

Please Rolling Stone, grow some cojones, ditch the mainstream crap, and show us you have an ounce of integrity left in that rag of magazine.

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I’ve been working on starting a company called Blue Dog Audio. We’ve been official for some time, but we finally did a soft-launch yesterday of our e-commerce website. As of right now, the company is online only (similar to NewEgg.com), but we plan on helping our customers as much as possible over email, IM, and may, at some point, do some limited phone support.

Currently, we have a coupon for 10% off your first order for new customers. We also have free shipping on all microphones. If you have any questions, feel free to email the site…we’d love to hear from you!

My longtime girlfriend and I have decided to sell the condo and buy a house. We don’t have anything in mind right now, but we feel selling the condo is the first big step. We truly love where we live, and will miss this location and our awesome neighbors.

It’s a 2 bedroom condo that we’ve listed for $149,900. It should be on the MLS in the next day or two, but I’m also working on a little website, which I plan on post a bunch of photos and information about the condo. If you know of anyone that’d be interested, contact me or the contact information on the MLS page.

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I’m not a big fan of acquiring players via free agency, but this might be a year Ted Thompson might want to try and find a player or two. For starters, the Packers are no longer a team that’s rebuilding. The Packers are a team with few needs, and may only be a player or two away from doing something Super. The one player that comes to mind is Asante Samuel. Asante is a really good corner that has a lot of good years ahead of him. Samuel, Al Harris, and Charles Woodson would be one hell of a group of cornerbacks. Harris and Woodson are both over 30, and if they drafted another CB, they’d be sittin’ pretty. In my opinion, you can never have enough corners in the NFL. Also, the Packers currently have over $20 million in salary cap space, they could front-load a contract, similar to what they did with Woodson, and they’d be sitting in good shape for years to come.

This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Hillary Clinton has run a dirty campaign since the very beginning, so the mud slinging just goes to show Hillary is a) desperate to win votes, and 2) very immature. Obama and McCain, for the most part, have both run very clean and respectful campaigns. Let’s hope Obama wins both Texas and Ohio so we don’t have to listen this awful woman anymore….

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7201 Midtown Rd., Madison, WI 53719

I realize this has been a bad Winter, but what is the deal with the roads being so awful? I feel like the last month or so the snow removal folks have given up. I’m not knocking the workers that have been busting their ass all Winter, but we had a storm Sunday, I couldn’t get into to work yesterday, and barely made it today. I don’t even think they’ve plowed, salted, or put gravel down in my area. I tried to get up the S. Gammon hill that goes up to Raymond Road and had to back down it…two days after the storm! Midtown Road doesn’t even seem like it’s been plowed and looks excellent for ice skating. Another good ice skating rink is the intersection of Raymond Road and Whitney Way. It took me an HOUR to get to work today!

Also, when it was raining Sunday morning, why weren’t there salt/gravel trucks out being a little more proactive? Instead, Madison roads turned into pure ice. You can argue that it’s too cold for salt, but my place of employment put down salt in their parking lot and it’s melting. Again, I realize the Madison snow removal crew has had one hell of a Winter, but come on, step it up!!!

<Sigh> Is Winter ever going to end?