Tomorrow is the Day

Hours until Celebrate Your Senses - You will be safe there...


Tomorrow is the day to Celebrate UR Senses...pay attention because there will be a test afterward. It's a full day (OK, almost a full day 10 am to midnight) of senses celebrating, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the building of the pyramids, the opening of the Panama Canal, the opening of the on ramp at G-36, and the last ice age. There will be music all day and all night - the west side of the square will be covered with over 1,024 wide screen TVs scrolling breaking news all day, well maybe not, but you can bring your Blackberry if you really can't get away from the TV for more than a few minutes. There will kids activities galore, with Bandanna the Clown strolling the park. There will be story-telling and a 1800's one act play at the State theater. And if that were not enough, there will be art in the park from 10 am to 5 pm, with sculpture, painting, ceramics, woodcraft, and photography for everyone's taste - speaking of taste there will be food vendors and local restaurants to sate your hunger. Don't forget to stop and get your Celebrate Your Senses T-shirt screened right there in situ (the original Latin sense).

The Main Street side of the square will be blocked off and at 5 o'clock the music will move from the park to the street.

An adult beverage area will be located next to the music and dancing. The street was made for more than just random parking by pickups - it was also made for music and dancing - there will be a street dance and a battle of the bands. At 9pm Bob Dorr and the Blue Band will play until midnight.

So there you go - turn on your TiVo and get yourself down to the square tomorrow.

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Everybody's Coming Saturday

Everybody is coming to Celebrate Your Senses on Saturday - Are You?

As you may know Washington is having a Festival of Your Senses on Saturday which has be unaccountably been titled "Celebrate Your Senses". Music, drama, storytelling, art, comedy, culinary arts, and your very own interpretative dance on Main Street. Scores of volunteers are making the festival a memorable event. So when Washington celebrates its Bicentennial you will be able to say you were there when it all happened.

Street Level has consulted the Municipal Oracle for her forecast. After the appropriate divination (no animals were injured or killed) she has stated: No particularly satanic entities seem to be coming, although demons from the high school may be seen. Choirs of angels have the month of August off, so major paperwork shouldn't be necessary. The black monolith in front of the new library hasn't caused anyone to use bones as weapons yet, and is not expected to come alive until the next Venus/Moon conjunction. Cell phone reception is guaranteed to be perfect, and people with large pickups will learn to park by Saturday so there will be no problems and everything will be perfect.

Pack yourself up to the Farmers' Market this evening and get in the mood for Saturday - only a few hours left to participate.

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What Can We Do to Stop the Madness???????

Above, you see that the "Devil Plague", also known as, Missouri Blight", has spread from the square to outlying farms. It is believed that it was carried on the shoes of people attending the Farmers' Market. The CDC reminds everyone that good foot hygiene is the only way to stop this scourge. It is believed that the plague was brought to Iowa from rest-stops or fireworks stands along Missouri highways.

The demons are attracted by levers and switches. Rural residents are urged to remove the keys from heavy equipment and snowmobiles. If you see a flock of demons simply swat then with a newspaper and chase them into a neighbor's yard.

Important Reminder:

There are only 2 days left to prepare for Celebrate Your Senses. Officials urge you to take your change to the bank and convert it to ready cash for the raffle, art, and food.

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Sky Turns to Bands of Color <> Black Monolith appears in square <> 3,400 Minutes Until Celebrate Your Senses

Today the sky over Washington turned to bands of colors and it appears sometime last night a large black monolith appeared in the square. This would normally would be news, but as it turns out there are only about 3,400 minutes left to prepare for Celebrate Your Senses. That of course is real news.

So go through your couch and find all your loose change, for your chance to win a retro Budweiser cooler, and have the time of your life downtown on the square. Come early and stay late there will plenty of free air and water.

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Real Post coming soon, but you have to see this!!!!!!!

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FREE FOOD AT THE FARMERS' MARKET????

Check Your Gauges - about 61 effective hours until CELEBRATE UR SENSES

We're getting down to the wire and it's time to check your gauges to be sure that you're ready for Celebrate Your Senses on Saturday. So be sure your battery is charged, your pressure is in the green, your heat is below boiling, and your wallet is full. Crank up the family flivver and head to historic downtown Washington - are we there yet?

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Found Art

Street Level wishes to thank Josh Thorud for his contribution of "Found Art" to this post. While there are less than 70 effective hours until the beginning of Celebrate your Senses, we all are thankful that it is now safe to approach traffic cones that appear at our doors. Stay tuned to Street Level for more updates in the days leading up to Celebrate Your Senses. We here at Street Level intend to provide you with all the hype we can about this upcoming event.

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Tim Sez>>>

Pay Attention to Tim - see you downtown on the first. You are now safe from the cones.

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pAM sEZ 6 dAyS AND 16 hOuRs

Here is Pam in her studio reminding us all that it is only 6 day and 16 hours until Celebrate Your Senses.

This blog is not about frailty or Venetian Night in Chicago - It's about Celebrate Your Senses

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Tonight the Earth with come within its closest approach to our sister planet -- planet Nibiru which pulled skylab out of it orbit July 11th 1979, do you think it is any accident that 30 years ago there was a cover-up? It was 30 years ago when the Anunniki from Nibiru stole it for their own purposes - we have never been told the truth. Tonight it will be hard to cover up the amount of cones that will be seen throughout town. Be sure to lock your doors tonight and if a cone comes to your door DO NOT ANSWER!!! Call your area proctor immediately and give him or her your zone number, work permit certificate identifier, and dossier location code - Your proctor is here to serve you. Together - we and the party will survive this and Celebrate Our Senses on August 1st when there will be a show of People's Art and a Dance in the Street to ward off the disappearance of Saturn's rings the next week. FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT INVITE A CONE INTO YOUR HOME AND COME AND CELEBRATE ALL OF OUR SENSES on August 1st.

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You only have 166 hours to prepare to Celebrate Your Senses.

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When Farms go Wrong

Nothing is so wrong as when farms go wrong. The rash of farms shifting dimensions is just one sign of farms using genetically modified organisms. More on this as information comes in...

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6 1/2 days until Celebrate Your Senses.

Your Window to the World - Street Level

Do you learn about the world from Rush Limbaugh, is all your news fair and balanced? Is what happened on "Dancing With the Stars" last night, linked with the coming End of Days predicted by CNN. Do you think you're better off now than when all your meals, clothes, rent, car, school was free? Do you think that it is Obama's fault that Tomato Blight is so prevalent this summer - after all is it an accident there was no Tomato Blight when Truman was president. Do most Americans think the weather is affected by politics or aliens? Where are you going to be seven days from now - if you answer anything other than at Celebrate Your Senses, don't you think you should rethink either where you live or what you spend your time doing? Don't you miss the times when you weren't asked questions by the news media? I do - thanks Walter for so much real news coverage.

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Only 7 Days Left Until Celebrate Your Senses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only Eight Days Left

Being consistent with Street Level, the photo above has really nothing to do with the post. The photo could represent an extremely low cost health care alternative, or it could have something to do with buses. It instead, it all about Celebrate Your Senses, next year we will probably call it Celebrate Your Census, in honor of 2010 Census, but that is for later, today we will look at street dancing. It has been a good many years since downtown Washington Streets have been danced upon. What better way to celebrate the new streets downtown than to dance on them? So get down to the square on the 1st of August with your dancing shoes, or Crocs or whatever, and celebrate Washington's revival. Check out the photo in its larger version by clicking on it.

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Panama Moon

Almost normal - best describes Old Panama under a blue moon. Panamá la luna se ve mejor cuando es azul. Todo el mundo debería ver una sola vez, ya sabes añadirlo a su lista de cubo. If you do that, I don't think you will regret it.

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Mornning Post - Washington Iowa's August 1st Event - More to Follow

Myspace Countdown Clocks

Street Level is out finding the kind of breaking stories that you have come to expect from this blog, in the meantime, here is a reminder of the upcoming extravaganza in the real world - "Celebrate Your Senses". 10 am until Midnight there is something for you.

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Bulgarian Duck Fungus Hits Iowa Decoys

Duck decoys throughout Iowa are experiencing the dreaded Bulgarian Duck Fungus. If you have a duck decoy - please take heed; have your decoy treated at your local DNR office. It is believed that Bulgarian Duck Fungus was introduced to Iowa through careless boat owners who brought it from Branson's Table Rock Lake in southern Missouri. A batch of Mickey Gilley boat stickers from an undisclosed country seem to have brought the fungus to Branson in the first place.

People who have been to a Mickey Gilley show do not seem to be affected, but should watch for any signs of the fungus affecting household appliances or riding mowers. Rumours that Skin-So-Soft is an efficacious treatment are untrue.

Sad But True:




40 years ago today, Armstrong stepped on the moon - today astronauts are fixing the toilet on the space station. ~ @AnnCurry ~







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Happy Light

This is a Happy Light - it is not directly related to a Happy Meal, that should be known right from the beginning. This is the garden faerie/unicorn part of Street Level. Tomorrow will be back to exposing the conspiracies which surround us all.

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Don't Attempt Yourself

Recent Telescopic Photos of the Clean City's UFO Menace

The staff at Street Level has been combing the skies for the source of our recent "visitations". We scanned the most likely culprit and found nothing hanging out at the moon. We then pointed the Street Level Satellite back toward the Clean City and found the source as depicted in the photo below!!!

From the photo evidence you can clearly see the mother ship above the south pacific. Also in the photo you can see the spawn of the ship invading the planet. The shape of the ships suggest why there seems to be a lot of lilies in the area. Street Level suggests that if citizens find a lily in their yard, they should not attempt to remove them - contact your local zone proctor immediately! Your party officials are here for you.

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Long Lost Brinton Thinking Engine Found on Garbage Day!

The oft rumored long lost Brinton Thinking Engine appeared on Thursday's garbage day, on the 900 block of South Iowa Avenue in Washington. It has long been thought that Frank Brinton had built a thinking engine to automate the airship that he had built for his wife Indiana. The airship made several world girding trips with Indiana at the helm, and it has long been rumored that the airship had navigational aids far beyond what was available in the Victorian era. Washington Preservation Officers were called to the scene and the incedent was documented. No further information was available at the time of this posting...

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Ecology of a Small Town Square

Pictured above is what can happen if you let amateurs do what a profession should do. Washington's recent spate of UFO sightings led to a plague of devils. Rank amateurs stepped in and introduced giant barn cats to take care of both pests. But giant barn cats eat neither stormtroopers nor devil dancers, they prefer house pets and yearling deer. Since we have plenty of both in Washington, the cats are flourishing. The County Ecologist urges everyone to make sure their pets are brought in during evening hours, and not to leave large quantities of milk outside.

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Local Market Master Discusses "Devil Plague" in Park

Above local Market Master Shepherd discusses the plague of devils besieging Central Park. "They are really not part of our theme," Shepherd said. "They fit more in a market like Iowa City."

Theories abound as to the source of the devils, the most popular are they are the late adult stage of Buffalo Gnats. Other theories include:

• Local Street Projects have stirred up more than we bargained for
• The Circular Window on the new library has called forth Baphomet
• Ashtoroth is thinking of opening a boutique on the square
• The wet weather has caused them to grow out of tomato blight
• Homeowners are not mowing their lawns

It is expected as the weather grows drier the devils will begin to disappear. In the meantime, residents are urged to use vanilla and skin-so-soft as well as dress in long sleeves, to keep them at bay.

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Trees show up in the Square

Now that downtown Washington has had trees planted, I have to show you how Panama City has outdone the Clean City by planting trees on church steeples...

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Rising Watertable

This view from the 3rd story of the building still known as the Farrel's building shows the effect of the recent rains on Washington's historic downtown square. The rumors of alligators swimming out of the sewers are completely unfounded. The city botanist dismisses such concepts as complete fancy and totally an urban myth. "Alligators can't live in the sewers, the rats are the problem, some are the size of German Shepherds." So people shouldn't worry.

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Breaking News

WASHINGTON, IA - Washington County Mini Bus Officials have voted to scrap their current fleet of buses for used buses from Panama and other areas in Latin America. A spokesman for the Mini Bus said, "They're cheaper and it's a great way to recycle.

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What's Up with Uranus?

Canals bear watching while you can see Uranus in the sky. Tonight's sky is the perfect place to view Uranus - if you face west, Uranus will be directly behind you. Something about Uranus brings out ETs. The picture above shows incontrovertible evidence of ET tourism and the Many Fish Canal. Some scoff at the notion that THEY ARE AMONG US, but how much more evidence do you need. You've all seen the "Assignment Earth" episode of Star Trek where they travel back to 1968 - well what makes you think they haven't traveled to 2009? When you see Uranus tonight think about it!

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Bonus Post - too many fish

I've been gone, but I know what's happening here in Washington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Panama - Many Fish

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Here is Many Fish City as seen from the 11th floor of the hotel. We found many fish there, but did not eat the eyes like some people we could name. Modern Many Fish City could also be called Many Rice and Beans City, or Boiled Chicken City. But whatever you call it - it is an impressive city - add it to your bucket list, you won't regret it. Panama hats should be purchased there along with Cuban cigars, they go together well - especially with a cold bottle of Atlas.

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So just where can you get a big Mac in Panama City anyway?

Panama City is a + Million city. As a result it has all the comforts of home, but maybe not exactly how you would expect. Here you can get an Automac which is sort of what your looking for. The everything for a dollar store in the picture next to Micky-D's doesn't seem to be doing very well. I guess they just don't get that the name of your store really doesn't mean anything - how much can you get for a dollar at the Dollar Store.

Tomorrow - even less information than today...

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