Do you ever get tired of being asked why you haven't gotten the vision-correcting surgical procedure? And what is your answer? A) It wouldn't help me. B) The whole idea of that surgery creeps me out. C) Glasses are not that big a burden. I…
We'll save you some time: Certain men's magazines love to tout stories about the secrets of success in both personal life and business. Inevitably, these "secrets" are essentially rehashings of seven basic truths. 1. Women want you to listen AND talk. 2. Bosses want you…
It opens with a teenage boy in a graduation cap and gown. Don't change the channel or fast-forward. Just watch. I won't ruin it by giving away the good lines. But I really think you would enjoy it. It's for Sprint. But it's really about…
This is Michele Morrow. I'd never heard of her either. But apparently she has been in some awful-sounding movies. www.kotaku.com.au
It wasn't really all that much fun. At least not if you used an actual Wiffle Ball (registered trademark). Sure the holes in the white plastic ball allowed it to simulate curveballs. Or so it said on the box. But that design also kept it…
This album came out in August of 1975. www.album-cover-art-finder.com BTO was at Expo '74 on Aug. 5th. www.dailyapple.blogspot.com Also in August of 1974. www.articleii.org And August of 1945. www.ebay.com
Residents in certain mildewy parts of the Northwest might not always be impressed with Spokane. But they love us in Champaign, Illinois. The South Hill's Evelyn Creager passed along a recent travel story from The News-Gazette, published there in the home of the University of…
www.papermag.com Remember, I didn't say "better movie." I said "better movie title."
The newspaper's in-house newsletter recently featured a fine story about the SR offering readers learn-a-language record albums 50 years ago. It was a promotion designed to increase subscriptions. Readers were to clip out coupons appearing in consecutive papers and then send those in along with…
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