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DUMP NICKELBACK –AND VOTE FOR MAYER HAWTHORNE FOR THANKSGIVING HALFTIME SHOW

smash — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:00:46 +0000

It’s a small thrill to occasionally “discover” a musical artist or group that you haven’t heard before, something that sounds creative and fresh. Not the latest Top 10 artist either, or the pablum that radio stations spit out ad nauseam 50 times a day on their computers. Mind you, this discovery is meaningful because you [...]

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Susan Boyle Covers Depeche Mode: And the World Doesn’t End

smash — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:03:31 +0000

For her upcoming CD, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, to be released November 1, 50-year-old Scottish superstar singer Susan Boyle has once again plumbed a classic song that is another unlikely choice. You remember SuBo from a couple of years back, when you and probably the entire globe stopped everything to watch the formerly dowdy [...]

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Tesla Finally Rolls Out the Model S Sedan

smash — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:54:12 +0000

Last night at the Tesla auto plant in Fremont, CA, onlookers marveled at the new Tesla Model S luxury sedan, which finally made its debut after a long wait. Technically speaking, the unveiling of the new luxurious sedan was for the approximately 2,000 customers who have put down deposits of $5000, but these were prototypes, [...]

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5 WAYS TO MAKE ABC’s “THE CHEW” TOLERABLE

smash — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:49:01 +0000

5 WAYS TO MAKE ABC’s “THE CHEW” TOLERABLE The loud trainwreck that is “The Chew”, which premiered this past Monday on ABC not only as yet another food-theme show but also as replacement for “All My Children” the 40+ year legendary soap that ABC killed earlier this year, has not been the smashing success that the [...]

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Singin’ The Songs of Summer 2011

smash — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:12:33 +0000

Yikes! It’s Labor Day weekend! School’s already started in some parts of the country. Is the summer over? Didn’t school used to start in September? What’s the rush? Does this mean the lazy days of what has been a steamy summer in many parts –well, do we have to pack it in for the fall [...]

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President Obama, President Bad Ass

smash — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:28:18 +0000

You really don’t want to be around Obama nowadays. He will kick your ass. And he’ll be smooth about it. Let’s look at the last 72 hours or so of his schedule and take a look at what finesse and general bad-assness he has displayed. On Friday, instead of just tucking in and watching the Royal [...]

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Who Will Get the Oscar Nominations? Here are our Predictions

smash — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:46:05 +0000

We are knee-deep in the film awards season, it seems. Last week’s brouhaha about Ricky Gervais tossing out some jokes that offended some Hollywood types as the host of the Golden Globe Awards almost overshadowed the fact that real awards were hand ed out. (We think Ricky rocked, and it’s high time someone of his [...]

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The Twelve Days of Christmas (Shopping)

smash — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 06:51:37 +0000

So, you’ve all been shopping, haven’t you? Of course you have! We’ve seen you schlepping those shopping bags up and down the escalators at the malls. We’ve seen you stand in long lines at Macy’s just to get gift boxes –that’s the 6th floor at “Gift Wrap”. Just from a cursory glance it really does [...]

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Having a 9/11 Birthday

smash — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:23:02 +0000

Today is my birthday. 9/11/10. Ah, so you noticed? I get that from time to time. The double-take, the slight pause, the occasional “So what’s it like?” question which, I suppose, is more rhetorical until I actually try to come up with an answer. Because in fact I don’t really have any answer. Because I [...]

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How to Send a Postcard in the 21st Century

smash — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:28:55 +0000

My nephew and I have a long-distance postcard relationship. For a couple of years now he and I manage to see each other rarely but instead send each other postcard dispatches in which I will describe a cool attraction I visited and he will get excited about a local dish or delicacy from a vacation [...]

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