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Posted June 12, 2012
I have never seen ?Twilight.? I have never read any of the ?Twilight? books. As I thought those two thoughts and relished them with some kind of pride, I realized I had reached the third step of getting old. (The first step is avoiding any new technology like Twitter or Facebook purely based on the
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Posted June 7, 2012
I remember the first time I went to Atlanta. I drove through on my way to Spring Break in Florida and didn?t stop. The second time, it was a stop on the way to Ireland in Atlanta?s airport. It wasn?t until my third trip that I got to stay for a while. I stayed all
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Posted June 7, 2012
Everyone wants to look and feel good. Most people don?t. Why? A lot of folks, guys and gals alike, can?t bring themselves to go out and get some exercise. One of the biggest reasons is that people feel like working out is a chore. But it doesn?t have to be. I used to be one
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Posted June 7, 2012
The Motown sound might be nothing but music for commercials and Baby Boomer nostalgia catnip now, but in its heyday it was some of the best produced, catchiest, and most innovative music in the country. And the Motown label was the brainchild of one of America’s most successful black entrepreneurs, Berry Gordy, Jr. His pugnacious
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Posted June 6, 2012
100 bucks a week in gas. That douchey radio DJ who nicknamed himself ?Thunder.?? The Hummer in front of you with the ?NUMBER1STUNNA? vanity plate. There?s tons of stuff that sucks about commuting to and from work. You know what?s worse than tolls, road rage and endless classic rock though? Becoming an out-of-shape, unhealthy tub
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Posted June 5, 2012
Okay, you know what? Indian pop music is awesome. It’s bouncy and percussive and the music videos are choreographed to the level of mania. Over in the States, we’re stuck with 22-year-old rich ex-Disney Kids or art school graduates who act bored with music after their first year on the road. Indian pop music, by
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Posted June 5, 2012
The career trajectory of Jennifer Lopez will never cease to amaze me. I?m flabbergasted as I look at it now and think of all the promise and tell tale signs of future brilliance and how it all came to an end so quickly. After a four-year absence from movies, that career is just now starting
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Posted June 4, 2012
Well, folks. Summer is here. Which means that grill better have all the cobwebs cleared out of it, and you better have already head to the store to buy some lighter fluid and charcoal, and you better get ready for another season full of grilling like a crazy man outside. But maybe your grill, as
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Posted June 1, 2012
Tricks and loopholes that you need to know about Rules enacted as part of the recent Credit Card Act have made credit cards a little more customer friendly.? Caps on various fees, greater information sharing requirements, and protection from sudden interest rate hikes have, for the most part, been welcomed by the card-carrying public.? Even
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Posted May 31, 2012
I’ve been to Washington D.C. a few times and it definitely belongs in the category of “I doubt I’ll ever be able to really ever see everything there.” For a few of these top five pieces, like for example Kansas City, you would get enough of the local flair that even if you were there for
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Posted May 31, 2012
It’s kind of embarrassing, but I had no idea Starbucks has been around since the 1980s. To be fair, I didn’t grow up around Seattle, either, so there’s not much of a chance I would have heard of it until it was suddenly everywhere. You have to understand, in the grim darkness that was pre-Internet
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