http://provosucks.com Utah Valley's Reality Check Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Utah Valley, the Mecca of Secret Backbiting, where the pricks kick against the pricks, where phonies multiply like rabbits, you're bound to meet a lot of interesting people. But, in other news, lets go to the weekly SEO blooper reel: Ever known of anyone with an agenda or grudge to SEO ... http://provosucks.com/seo-blooper-reel/ A blog that hates on Utah Valley wouldn't be complete without a portrait of Utah Valley's Higher Education system. I've been working mostly for the past 5-6 years and am coming back to school finally. Since UVSC has moved up in the world and is now UVU, they ... http://provosucks.com/uvu-first-impressions/ Some upcoming events of note in the Mother Land (Salt Lake City): September 15, Tilly and The Wall at In The Venue October 9, Deerhoof at the Urban Lounge October 30, Girl Talk, at In The Venue November 17, of Montreal at The Murray Theater You could have gone to see Architecture in Helsinki for ... http://provosucks.com/upcoming-events-of-concern/ What better way to celebrate distaste for the town I live in than to celebrate what I did out of town. A week or so ago Jenna and I rolled down thunder mountain to see Devendra Banhart and Beck play at the Grand Sierra in Reno, Nevada. If ... http://provosucks.com/tales-from-reno-nevada/ A message from a friendly neighborhood libertarian inspired this post, kind of on the same wave length as the previous post regarding the trend in Provo to engage in "Mickey Mouse Club Style Rule Breaking". Apparently, and no doubt a member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, Scissors Man is still ... http://provosucks.com/whats-the-frequency-scissors-man/ I think I just decided to swear off of TBS, at least for a while. There really are only a select few programs I enjoy on TBS, and 90% of it is Family Guy. And then they mainly cater to the low-brow, missing-link type of individual who still ... http://provosucks.com/boycott-tbs/ There are very few promotional emails I actually enjoy getting, although I get about a dozen a day (these are subscription emails, not spam. I get nearly 1000 spam emails a day to my work email). The one from Geeks is one of my favorites. I don't ... http://provosucks.com/geeks-bait-and-switch-email/ Obviously there is no truth to the title simply because Utah already has a lot of deer and only Chris Cohen, former member of Deerhoof, is coming with Nedelle and their band 'Cryptacize.'  I am pretty excited about the show this coming Saturday and hopefully I'll finally have something interesting ... http://provosucks.com/deerdeerhoof-coming-to-utah/ We are going to Kilby Court to see Cryptacize on May 31st. Deerhoof's incredible ex-bass-ex-guitar player Chris Cohen backs up Nedelle, who's also toured with Jens Lekman. Jessica (who's played with Nedelle back in the day) says that Nedelle is the real star of Cryptacize and that Chris ... http://provosucks.com/cryptasize-coming-to-kilby-court-salt-lake-city-ut/ Any warm blooded creature who has spent an hour or more under a Southern Californian Palm tree has felt the essences of Styrofoam and plastic emanating through the pores of his/her skin, contaminating him/her immediately. Yet still, I'd rather deal with that than Utah Valley. Yet I do ... http://provosucks.com/ok-well-la/