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GHETTO BROTHERS 2008-03-20 19:32:00 When I was fifteen my grandfather died and my father came to own an old black and white television set. Since our house was small there wasn't much space to store things and my father set the thing on the floor of my room. It took a few weeks, but one night I decided to plug it in to see if the light would be bright enough to read by, but low enough not to wake anyone up. So I fiddled with the TV dial and found I could get the brightness sharp and I could read with the sound down. That is what I did for a little while, until after some experimentation I discovered that I could get one channel on the set and if I sat real close with the sound low I could watch TV. The one station that came in was Channel 13, WNET and the show that I watched was called Free-Time. This show was broadcast live
Gypsy Rose Lee 2008-04-27 16:53:00 The dysfunctional Horvik family has once again been revived on Broadway in "Gypsy
" the musical. This time with the considerable talent of Patti Lupone as Mama Rose and under the masterful direction of ninety year old Arthur who also wrote the book. This tale of the most notorious show business stage mother and her stripper daughter, is loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. The original 1959 musical was nominated for eight Tony awards and developed by Ethel Merman and David Merrick with music by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim lyrics. Gypsy Rose Lee was born Ellen June Hovickin Seattle Washington in 1911. Her sister also strangely named Ellen June Hovick and later known as June Havoc was born two years later. When their parents divorced the girl's mother, Rose Hovick developed a s
ALIEN HAND SYNDROME 2008-06-13 22:28:00 Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a rare neurological disorder that causes hand movement without the person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action. The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects and manipulate them without wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the healthy hand to restrain the alien hand. A new study identified the areas of the brain invo
Elephants Drunk in the Wild? 2008-08-09 16:48:00 Almost anyone who has read a travel brochure about Africa has heard of elephants getting drunk from the fruit of the marula tree. The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground. Books have been written asserting the truth of the phenomenon, and eyewitness accounts of allegedly intoxicated pachyderms have even been made. But a new study to be publish
Have You Heard? 2008-08-09 15:36:00 Gossip is everywhere, but what exactly is it and why do we do it? Some psychologists categorize any talk about social or personal topics as gossip while others suggest that such talk isn't really gossip until an evaluative aspect or an opinion about the topic is introduced.Such a lack of distinction makes studying gossip difficult but using the broader definition, researchers eavesdropping on conv Read more:Heard
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