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If I find out Matt Miner is in a band. I know I will like the music. I saw the Third Pyramid Band included Matt Miner. Matt’s portfolio is unparalleled. The Columbus skateboard legend played in Three Studies For A Crucification and Teeth of the Hydra. Three Studies were an important band during Hardcore Columbus’ formative years in the 90’s. After Three Studies, his next group Teeth of the Hydra were a nationally known doom metal band once the punks decided Sabbath is the ultimate working man’s music in the early aughts. I loved Matt’s next band, Nukkkehammer.
I attended the Third Pyramid Band show. I know the Third Pyramid Band show wouldn’t be wack. I was impressed. Third Pyramid landed hardcore’s progression into saving rock’n’roll. A lady singer named Nic crooned like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick while a band plays with black sabbath accent.
The Third Pyramid Band is the best newish band in Columbus. It ain’t even a contest.
I recommend The Third Pyramid Band @ Cafe Bourbon Street/March 8th.
I interviewed our favorite hessian about Third Pyramid band and Columbus countercultures.
Saturday, March 8, 7-8pm
This event will be occurring via Zoom
A plant manufacturing hypersonic missiles is planned for an area near Rickenbacker Air Force Base in central Ohio. There is a chance these weapons could be used to carry small nukes. A group of peace and environmenal activists are fighting this Anduril plant.
Speakers:
• Rick Wilhelm, Veterans for Peace
• Pat Marida of the Ohio Nuclear Free Network
• Darrin Broering, Veterans for Peace organizer
Many prominent and otherwise admired people in this country live off fear. They promote it widely in official communiqués and through a compliant media. Sometimes the fears have a basis in reality, sometimes not. Even when they are real, those involved exaggerate them for public consumption. These practices have gone on for so long now that fear has come to dominate the public square. And this has been done and continues to be done because frightened people yearn for guidance and protection and will yield personal decision making, prerogatives, and power to elites and experts who claim to have answers for their anxieties. Accordingly, elites in government, business, and intellectual circles have for decades gathered around a range of issues to frighten the public enough to allow these elite elements to jointly wield power.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan talk about women-led and all-women music groups from the rock era and some other genres including Heart, the Runaways, Sweet Honey and the Rock, TLC and more!
Listen live at 11pm Friday, March 7 and 14 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
and
Monday at 2pm streaming March 10 and 17 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
Archived on Mixcloud here
Friday, March 7, 12noon-3pm
Ohio Statehouse
Who should join: Anyone who wants to support science in a peaceful (but hopefully loud) way.
Where to go: We will be outside in the West Plaza of the Ohio Statehouse. This is the exterior area facing S. High Street. Look for the statue of William McKinley to know you are on the correct side of the building.
What to wear: It’s Ohio in March so watch the weather. With the weather in mind, we encourage people to wear their science stuff. Lab coats, safety goggles, or whatever neat science gear you might have that is safe in an exterior public gathering (so maybe leave the glass beakers back in the lab).
Signs: We love signs! Please do not mount signs on hard/wooden sticks though. They create a safety hazard in large crowds. Cardboard supports (like wrapping paper tubes) can be a good, safer substitute.
Bonus idea: active scientists, you can turn an old conference poster into a sign! Just use the back side to write/draw your message in support of science.
See video here
Tuesday, March 4, 3pm Ohio Statehouse rally with speakers including local farmer and council member Christopher Gibbs, fired federal worker Wesley Stanovsek, as well as Ohio House representative Michele Grim. Making our voices heard and refusing the anti-democrati, and illegal actions of the Trump administration and those who follow. Trump is systematically purging everyone from the federal government that is not loyal to him above anyone else, including the American people and the constitution that he swore to uphold. The lives of every minority in this country are being threatened. We call for the legislators, and leaders of our nation to stand with us in these dire times.
On March 3, 2025 the Franklin County Board of Elections heard the residency challenge of Columbus City Council candidate Tiara Ross. The candidate protest was filed by Columbus resident and social media political blogger (The Rooster) D.J. Byrnes.
While under oath, Ms. Ross was asked by Board member Meredith Freedhoff “Is your driver’s license suspended?” Ms. Ross replied “I am unaware of it being suspended.” When further questioned by board members about her license being suspended and also her registration having expired, Ms. Ross stated, “I would have to double check on these records. I don’t know if it was something I missed like a notice I missed in the mail, all of that had to be changed when I moved so it’s certainly something I can follow up with.” (see attached video of hearing).
Mr. Byrnes made a records request to the BMV of Ms. Ross’s license which showed that her license had been suspended (see attached). Further evidenced showed that her registration had also expired. The registration sticker on her vehicles license plate while in the parking lot of the Board of Elections was dated September 2024.
Ohio’s cannabis industry has seen rapid expansion since voters approved adult-use legalization in 2023. Licensed dispensaries began serving consumers in 2024, but now lawmakers are moving to tighten regulations, introducing new bills that could reshape how cannabis is grown, sold, and consumed.
Two key pieces of legislation—Senate Bill 56 and Senate Bill 86—are currently under debate in the Ohio Senate. These bills propose new restrictions on home cultivation, public consumption, THC potency, and the sale of hemp-derived intoxicants, signaling a more controlled and regulated market.
Senate Bill 56: Stricter Rules on Cultivation, Consumption, and THC Limits
The Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 56 on February 26, 2025, introducing significant changes that could impact both consumers and businesses. The bill focuses on tightening personal cultivation rules, enforcing public consumption bans, and capping THC potency in cannabis products.
Pearl River President Trump engaged the country in 90-minutes of “me-time” in a rant before Congress, but that’s hardly news. While the Republican side of the House rose in applause, the rest of the room, and world, continues to recoil in horror. In the wide, wild world,
some of the reaction is more personal than the handwringing of politicians and businesses over the damage that is being wrought.
I saw a Facebook post of a friend, a labor lawyer in DC, who is housing federal employees suddenly thrown out of work. A book reviewing organizer for Social Policy missed the issue deadline, because he was dealing with so many federal workers in chaos over the loss
of livelihood.
Returning to type, “As a measles outbreak expands in West Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, …cheered several unconventional treatments, including cod liver oil, but again did not urge Americans to get vaccinated.” What children
dying, me worry?
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
More info here
Buckeye Environmental Network has put together a big statewide meeting at the State Capital to hear from workers affected by oilfield brine and what grassroots activists are doing to protect their community. Show up to tell our State Legislature this issue needs to be addressed!
This is a family friendly event, but RSVP is required to be accounted for in serving lunch!
Questions – call or text Anton at 216-716-0647.