April 2012
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Interview with an Element: Arsenic →
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Journalism is cool because you can think to... →
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JONATHAN RICHMAN is coming to Chicago- June 4th-...
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Born in Peoria, Illinois, Pryor grew up in his grandmother’s brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L. (Thomas), practiced prostitution. His father, LeRoy “Buck Carter” Pryor was a former bartender and boxer.
After his mother abandoned him when he was 10, he was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter, a violent woman who would beat him for any of his eccentricities. Pryor...
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Costner became interested in acting while in his last year of college, and on graduation married Cindy Silva. The couple honeymooned in Puerto Vallarta and on the return plane journey had a chance encounter with actor and fellow passenger Richard Burton, who had purchased all the seats around him for solitude. Burton agreed to speak to Costner after he finished his book. Costner, who had been...
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The show has an unusual style and ambiguous time setting, in which technologies/clothing styles and historical backdrops of different decades coincide. The characters wear 1960s clothing and hair styles and several episodes feature references to the Soviet Union as a current nation and to Fidel Castro as the current leader of Cuba. Similarly, the second episode of the series shows a very young...
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It started quietly. The writer finished the short... →
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A very good dude wrote this song.
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Myself, My Sim
Me: Deidre Davis, 24
Vegetarian
Watiress
Living in sin with boyfriend, Bobby
Sim: Emmerson Blake, young adult
Carnivore
Professional Blogger
Married to Flynn
Typical Day for Emmerson:
Wake up at 6am
Work out (Pump iron-push self)
Serve breakfast- Waffles
Blog (8am-2pm)
WooHoo with Flynn
Go to town in sports car
Get a massage and a facial
Buy groceries
Buy books
Drive home in sports car
Serve...
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In Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times Of An Animated Cartoonist, it is claimed that Chuck Jones and the artists behind the Road Runner and Wile E. cartoons adhered to some simple but strict rules:
The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “meep, meep.”
No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products. Trains and trucks were the...
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