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Monday wild card
It's a tough call, but I think this one is my favorite: McBride fell twelve stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with
vegetable soup.
Cis votes for this one:
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
Question: OK. High school is one thing, but those among us who write for a living commit their share of literary sins. Seen any doozies lately?
Thanks to Cis for the tip
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Folks brave heat for festival
Glasgow Daily Times Hundreds of people braved the Indian summer heat over the weekend to attend the 26th Annual Pumpkin Festival in Edmonton. Temperatures soared to around 90 degrees on Saturday. Festival goers sought refuge from the sun by crowding under nearby shade trees and others cooled down with glasses of fresh-squeezed lemonade, but otherwise the crowd seemed undaunted by the heat. The event kicked off with a 5K run/walk that started at Bowling Park Community Center. After the run, enthusiasts enjoyed the car and antique tractor shows. Ronald McDonald led the kids parade through town. Even the smallest goblins and ghouls and princesses and action figures took part. Some walked, others rode in small, battery-operated vehicles or wagons. "I like coming," said Heather Keeney, who was shopping for crafts and purses Saturday. More>>
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Atlanta Music Scene
Butch Walker performed at the Songs for Kids Foundation charity event in May 2007. Credit: RODNEY HO Talk about bad timing. Atlanta producer/singer Butch Walker, who has written songs for Avril Lavigne, Bowling For Soup, the Donnas, Pink and Fall Out Boy, lost all his possessions over the weekend after wildfires destroyed in a home he was renting from Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea in Malibu, Calif.
Walker, who once fronted Marvelous 3, in recent years had been spending more and more time in L.A. on his producing work and less time in Atlanta so he and his wife had recently taken key items from his Atlanta home and moved the stuff to Malibu. Walker was in New York at the time of the fire.
"I lost everything I've ever owned," Walker said in a release. More>>