Secure Arizona PAC is an organization so deeply committed to Arizona's well being that it's located in Kansas City, Missouri, with a listed treasurer who also ran a political action committee fighting to preserve payday lending in that state. Now, they're buying ads in the Republican primary for Arizona's Senate seat currently held by Jon Kyl and going classy all the way, attacking Jeff Flake for agreeing with Barack Obama and the Latino representatives from Arizona in the House.

We're all going to have to wash our eyes out with bleach (or decide to stop watching television entirely) before this election is over.

Starting tomorrow, Gus Coliadis and his bike-powered ice-pop stand Cyclopsicle will be operating at a semi-permanent location on the corner of Stone and Pennington. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday.

Triple-digit heat? Crazy-ass gourmet frozen things made with love by a super nice guy? I think you know what to do.

You can read what we wrote about Cyclopsicle here, or follow him on Facebook here.

Local author Jeff Sambur recently won a gold medal in the travel essays category at the Independent Publishing Awards for his book Destroying Demons on the Diagonal. ($13.95, 334 pages) It is about "a firefighter's San Diego to Maine bicycle ride into retirement."

Some interesting facts about his ride: He biked 6,518 miles; passed through 17 states; spent 17 weeks and 5 days on the road; had two weeks of non-cycling days. He writes, "We live in a beautiful country ... go out there and see it before you are so old, that walking the pug dog is the highlight of the day."

A book summary and bio are below the cut:

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I have four tickets to the Diamondbacks game tonight to give away to a lucky Range reader.

Two problems:

1. The game is tonight, so you'd need to pick up the tickets from our offices today, then drive up to haboob country for the 6:40 first pitch.

2. The game is against the Mariners, who are terrible.

The upside: they're great seats and they're free. So, if you're sure you can actually go up to Phoenix tonight (really, really sure, because I'd hate to give the tickets to someone who can't use them and have someone else miss out). Since we never seem to give out anything on Twitter, send us a tweet (@tucsonweekly) with some sort of text that includes the words "I promise to pick up the tickets today and will actually go to the game" and they're yours. First come, first served, pending verification that you're not a liar.

Republican Martha McSally, who hopes to unseat the newly elected Democrat Ron Barber in Congressional District 2 in November, has announced that her communications director, Sam Stone, is no longer with the campaign. McSally's statement:

Members of my campaign team are representatives of who I am, what I stand for and why I am running for Congress. Because of that, my communications director, Sam Stone, has resigned his position with the campaign effective immediately. Sam was a valuable member of our campaign and helped us go from zero to 25% in just 68 days during the Special Election in April. We need to reform Washington and change who we send there. The people of Arizona deserve the best from its elected leaders and candidates, and I will give it to them.

Stone's departure comes after Sunday night's Politico story:

On the Thursday before the election, a top aide to Republican Martha McSally, a retired Air Force officer and a tea party favorite, approached a Barber aide at an event on the University of Arizona’s Tucson campus. That’s when something strange happened, according to the Barber campaign: The McSally aide, spokesman Sam Stone, offered the 22-year-old Barber staffer advice on how to beat Jesse Kelly, the GOP nominee who was running against Barber in the special election.

Stone, who is a regular guest on Arizona Illustrated's Political Roundtable, has not returned a phone call or email from the Weekly.

The Politico story has cemented the idea—mentioned in the TW's post-election story last week—that some members of Jesse Kelly's team were unhappy that McSally was undermining Kelly. While letting Stone go will remove the immediate distraction, McSally will still have a long way to go to convince some members of the GOP base that she's a team player who deserves their support.

I heard about Noosa, the band, not the yogurt, a few days ago from a friend and because of the nature of life, I quickly forgot about them. But while looking for some new music to listen to this afternoon, I rediscovered the Big Apple-based duo and am glad that I did.

The group is made up of Sky Barbarick and Matt Buszko and while I would generally classify them as synth-pop, Buszko's beats aren't overwhelmingly energetic and Barbarick's voice has a breathy kind of quality to it that makes for some beautifully haunting moments.

Their self-titled EP was released last week (you can stream the entire thing on Soundcloud) and is already getting a lot of attention from indie music lovers. I have high expectations for this band and hope that they continue to deliver tunes of this caliber in the future.

While some of their tracks are a little on the dark side, "Sail" is just happy enough to be incredibly addictive and belongs on your summer playlist. Keep up with the band on Facebook if you like what you hear.

#azright Pls do not read the STAR & REPUBLIC. Pls read the AZ Daily Independent & SOAZNEWSX. Both are conservative & online. Pls subscribe!!

— Al Melvin (@SenatorMelvin) June 17, 2012

Senator Al Melvin was giving out media advice yesterday, but we couldn't help but notice that the Tucson Weekly fell neither into the "do not read" category (the Star; the Republic) or the "do read" (the Southern Arizona News Examiner, where Emil Franzi and our own Tom Danehy have the freedom to discuss the FX show Justified; the place where attributions and bylines are just a dream, the Arizona Daily Independent).

We really need to know what Al Melvin thinks of us, so we sent him a tweet to get some clarification:

@SenatorMelvin Your approval is very important to us, Cap'n. What can we do to earn your endorsement?

— tucsonweekly (@tucsonweekly) June 18, 2012

But, as of the writing of this post, no answer from the Senator.

Can you help us, Twitter-using readers of The Range? Sen. Melvin generally doesn't seem to reply when he's tagged on Twitter, but maybe if a few people ask on our behalf?

The guys from the Hopped Up series have their second video online, this time visiting with Grant Krueger and company at Union Public House. While I shook my head a little bit after Krueger's answer to the question of which person, alive or dead, he'd most like to have a beer with, I definitely appreciate the time, knowledge and footage of pork products that are seen in this video. Keep it up, guys.

Previously: I Would Like to See More Shows About Beer.

Local author Robert Bonville has published a historical novel entitled Voyages of Malolo: Secret of the Rongo. (578 pages, $21.95) The novel tells the story of Polynesian navigators and their journey across the Pacific on the great seagoing canoe Malolo.

Bonville says the tale is fiction but based on archaeological and anthropological evidence as well as widely accepted theory. He says it's "an epic adventure that speaks to the will of ancient man to discover, learn and survive in the fact of the harshest of conditions." Bonville's inspiration for the book came from living in Hawaii as a young man and later travels throughout the Pacific.

Book summary:

When young Auka’i discovers a piece of driftwood from the east containing mysterious hieroglyphics, the “Rongo”, he and his people believe it is a message from the gods directing them to discover its meaning and the secret it contains. The young adventurer and his crew of uniquely skilled men build a large, double-hulled deep sea sailing canoe and sail east across the Pacific to the coast of Ecuador, more than 8,000 kilometers (5000 miles) from their island home. Their nearly 3-year voyage of exploration, which ranges up to Mexico and California before heading west to Hawaii, finds them facing many hardships and dangers before returning for a final surprising conflict at home.

Author bio:

Robert Bonville is a native of South Florida and a United States Coast Guard veteran. He served as a radioman on deep sea weather cutters, Antarctic ice-breaking expeditions and serviced coastal navigation devices before attending college on the GI Bill. Upon graduation, Bonville worked in aerospace and defense-related projects associated with quality assurance, engineering and management, retiring after 37 years. Robert is married with four adult children and resides in Arizona with his wife, Linda.

For more information, visit www.authorrobertbonville.com.

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Based on my deeply scientific analysis at several airport bookstores, the Fifty Shades of Grey series isn't going away anytime soon, so perhaps Tucson hardware stores should have someone working the rope station, complete with advice like one Philadelphia shop owner provides to go with the softer stuff.