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They almost seemed too unreal to be true.

The mountain lion photos spreading by e-mail around Jackson Hole this week (and posted here Tuesday night) may not have been shot in Rafter J, as alleged.

Mark Gocke of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department says no sightings have been reported in the suburban subdivision three miles south of town. Gocke received the same e-mail.

It’s highly unlikely that if someone had a mountain lion snarling on their back porch they wouldn’t have reported it to some sort of authority, which would have passed along the tip to Game and Fish.

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Posted under cyberspace, mountain lions, wildlife

Chalk up another outrageous night of music for the Knotty Pine.

In a scene that could have been lifted from late night in New Orleans, Particle celebrated Mardi Gras in the Victor log cabin with a bacchanalia of noodle dancing and hyperintense jams.

The music matched the ferocity of a storm that has pounded the Tetons for two days, leaving skiers and groovers howling with delight.

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Posted under electronica, entertainment, funk, music

Nice-looking chair, eh?

This photo was attached to an e-mail circulating around Jackson today. Came to me at the end of a long, long chain. Allegedly taken in Rafter J.

On Feb. 2, I wrote about a magical mountain lion sighting on a butte near town. This one must have been a little more bizarre.

The photos that follow are pretty amazing.

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WASHINGTON — A week after dismissing concerns about global warming as the product of an “active media campaign,” U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., held a press conference today to say the Earth is, in fact, flat.

“There still exists broad disagreement within the scientific community on the extent to which the globe is curved,” Cubin said.

Contrary to what people may have seen in textbooks, peer-reviewed journals or NASA photographs, the Earth’s spherical, orb-like shape is still a matter of debate, Cubin said.

She attributed the widespread perception that the Earth is round to “unpatriotic liberals, activist judges and a few dead-enders.”

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Posted under barbara cubin, environment, humor, paranoia, politics, terrorism, weather

Music fans have had plenty to groove to this holiday weekend, with Vinyl spinning Latin funk and the DJs from Afrodesiac thumping jungle boogie at the Moose.

Next up, electronica meets intense instrumental jams as Particle arrives to help revelers ring in Mardi Gras.

The Los Angeles foursome known for late-night energy will light up Teton Village on Monday and the Knotty Pine in Victor on Fat Tuesday.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

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Posted under electronica, entertainment, funk, music, rock