1. Kanye West, “Through the Wire.” Kanye was a well-respected producer before “Through the Wire.” He struggled to get accepted as a rapper … his image was thought to be too clean-cut. Then he was in a near-fatal car crash, which resulted in his jaw being wired shut. Two weeks later, he went into the […]

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1. Even 20 years later, any article about Bo Jackson both 1) gets us to read and 2) makes us think about the glory days of Nintendo. Bo Jackson’s grocery shopping. Cool.
2. We have an uneasy feeling that when all the facts shake loose in the Sean Taylor case, there are going to be some […]

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ESPN E-Ticket has a great article on one of my favorite athletes of all time—Bo Jackson. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years already.
» Bo Knows Best

Source: Bo Knows Best

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Last Monday was a particularly stressful day for me. After laboring over analytical papers that dealt with…
-Beowulf as a prefigurement of Christ (whoa, that one never occurred to me), -the three weird protagonists in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral (which admittedly I haven’t read but which G. had), -Wittgenstein’s concept of certainty vs. that of Moore […]

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“It’s not only about dancing, you know? It’s about popularity,” a confident race-car driver Helio Castroneves said last night after America snubbed Spice-Girl Mel B and decided that he be given the mirrorball trophy for winning the latest cycle of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”
Helio’s partner Julianne Hough may have had a hand in his […]

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Filed under: Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews

After ten weeks, and 19 drama filled episodes, tonight it was finally time to crown a winner. The last few weeks of the competition have been rather dramatic with camps forming on both sides of the “Marie” question. Is this a dance competition? Or is it a popularity […]

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Hierarch Enterprises Co and The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have issued a voluntary recall for both the Power Bolt Y-Frame and Ultimate Y-Frame Adjustable Pitchbacks. The reason for the recall is that the upper portion of the frame could collapse once the locking pins are removed, this could result in a laceration.
Around 57,000 of […]

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Shuck and Jive is talking about my local senator:
State Senate Democratic Floor Leader, Roy Herron, will deliver two addresses at King College in Bristol, on Tuesday evening, November 27, and on Wednesday morning, November 28. The Tuesday evening speech entitled, “How Can a Christian be in Politics?” will be delivered at 7:45 PM in the […]

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Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick
I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My […]

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With just days until the start of the Spice Girls tour there’s plenty of news to go around!
First, Tom & Katie paid a visit to rehearsals recently. Suri got her little groove on, dancing to the girls.
“David and I are great friends with Tom and Katie,” Victoria says. “It was lovely of them to come […]

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