Friday iPod Random Ten

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Okay, let’s get it over with: All Of A Sudden – XTC Shambala – Rockapella Agony – Into The Woods [Original Broadway Cast] Good Vibrations – Brian Wilson (from "Smile") Silent All These Years – Tori Amos Concerto No. 3 in F Major aka "Autumn: III. Allegro from ‘The Four Seasons’" – Vivaldi, featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter Everybody Dance Now – … Read More

Mysterious Animal Stalking NC

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Sploid reports: A bizarre creature is haunting the workers at North Carolina’s Tyco Electronics campus, and they’ve got the amazing pictures and video to prove it. Skeptics immediately dismissed the animal as a "fox with mange" or a Mexican hairless dog known as the Xoloitzquintle, but Tyco employees are having none of it. Witnesses describe the mystery beast as much … Read More

Friday iPod Random Ten

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Dubuque Blues – The Association Blackwater – Doobie Brothers Schoolhouse Rock Medley – Brown Derbies The Want Of A Nail – Camp (movie soundtrack) Nights On Broadway – Bee Gees I Wish – Stevie Wonder Cruel Summer – Ace of Base (cover) Eight Miles High – The Byrds Love Me Do – The Beatles Breakfast in America – Supertramp My … Read More

Better Than Hoosiers

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Yeah, I know.  I’m probably the last one to hear this story, but on the off-chance I’m not, here’s the set-up. Jason McElwain is a 17 year old autistic kid who attends Athena High School in Greece, New York.  Think Leo DiCaprio in "Gilbert Grape", only a lot more functional. He loves basketball but, lacking height and other skills, he … Read More

Trailer Park Nation

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Sigh. The Vice President shoots someone in the face, and Anna Nicole Smith is now in front of the Supreme Court. What’s next?  A worn-out couch just sitting on the front lawn of the White House?

Bush Knew In Advance About Cheney Shooting

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From The Onion: White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat Aug. 2005 Briefing Warned, ‘Cheney Determined To Shoot Old Man In Face’ February 20, 2006 | Issue 42•08 WASHINGTON, DC—Government documents declassified today reveal that President Bush was briefed last summer of "a substantial risk" that Vice President Dick Cheney would shoot an elderly male in the face sometime … Read More

Mystery Solved

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The following is from the State of Ohio’s missing person’s database: Raymond Power Jr AKA: Missing Since: 8/2/2005 Sex Male Race White Age 57 DOB 08/25/48 Hgt 5Ft9In Wgt 190 Hair Grey Eye Blue Raymond Power Jr. age 57 was reported by his wife Jane as missing to New Rochelle NY Police on Tuesday August 2, 2005. Ray is an … Read More

Karma

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In 1999, an 11-year-old by the name of Kevin Stephan was a batboy during a game being played at Erie Community Colleges.  He was accidentally struck in the chest with a baseball bat.  He collapsed, and his heart stopped beating.  Fortunately, a nurse was in attendance, and was able to save Kevin’s life by restarting his heart. Ten days ago … Read More

An Open Letter To That Deer I Almost Ran Over

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Dear Roadkill Wannabe: Dude, that was so not funny. What are you — nuts?!?  Are you just some nutty nutjob who is just a crazy nut? You see that hard black path with a yellow line down the middle?  That’s called a road, asshole!  Cars drive on them! There was, like, 200 yards between me and the closet car.  Plenty … Read More