This is going to be heated, I can tell. It will be a battle of generations (anyone anti-John Hughes will lose). Continue reading
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Last night, the Miami Heat, “lead” by LeBron James, fell to the Dallas Mavericks in game six of the NBA Finals and no one in the world celebrated more than the city of Cleveland. Continue reading
It’s Monday and you ate and drank your way through the weekend (again). Continue reading
Debbie Reynolds has spent much of her career being a wonderful actress and the subject of her daughter, Carrie Fisher’s, rants. She has also spent fifty years collecting some of the most iconic pieces of movie history, in hopes of having a museum for all to enjoy them. Well, Hollywood doesn’t care about history and apparently no one is interested in building a place for sweaty tourists to shuffle through in their flip-flops, gawking open-mouthed at Charlie Chaplin’s hat or Marilyn’s white hot dress from The Seven Year Itch. So, Reynolds will auction off everything in her 5000 item collection, called Profiles in History, over the course of ten days, beginning on June 18, 2011. Review the catalog of impressive items here, and then buy a little something for yourself.
An ice cream shop in Columbia, Missouri decided to take lemons and make lemonade. Or rather, take cicadas and make ice cream. Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream shop in Columbia tried a new take on seasonal flavors: brown sugar, chocolate cicadas. The shop’s employees gathered the cicadas from their back yards, removed the wings, boiled the bugs and then covered them in brown sugar and chocolate before adding them to brown sugar and butter flavored ice cream. The ice cream sold out immediately. But the party-pooper local health officials stepped in and advised Sparky’s to stop using the insects in food. Cicadas are actually a good source of protein. I guess if you can drive to McDonald’s and get a Big Mac, then you shouldn’t be allowed to eat a bug. Boooooo!
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Clara Luper, organizer of sit-ins that resulted in desegregating 38 Katz Drug Stores across the Midwest, has died. In 1958, she lead 13 other black youth to sit-in at the all-white lunch counter in the Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City. After two unsuccessful attempts, they were eventually served on their third effort. Ms. Luper continued her contributions to progress for blacks by working for the NAACP for many years. She was 88.
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Let’s groove into today. Nice and slow. Continue reading
You know them, you love them, more importantly, you’ve used them – they are the begging songs. The songs you dedicate to the loved one who just left you standing alone on the curb…in the rain…not even bothering to look back. The song you sing in the shower to the one you desire so, so, SO, so much and that you just know you would make happy. Or the worst, the one that you shouldn’t have let go (dummy) and now she’s off with another man. Continue reading
