Yodel domination

Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:22 AM EST

By now you may have been thoroughly astonished by the talent of Alyse Eady, Miss Arkansas, who somehow finished only second after her spectacular ventriloquism/yodeling combo act was the undisputed smash of Saturday night's Miss America pageant.

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entertainment

Happy Birthday, Elvis

Fri Jan 7, 2011 4:14 PM EST

If one needs further evidence of Elvis Presley's staying power as ....Elvis, one of the trapped Chilean miners, Edison Pena, said that last year, he cheered up his fellow 32 miners by belting out the King's tunes before they were rescued 69 days later. Viva Las Pena!

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arts

2010 Top Kent List

Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:06 PM EST

Here's some stuff I really liked in 2010 -- feel free to weigh in (i.e. disagree with me wholeheartedly): Film:

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arts

Diamond Alice Doctor Love Tom

Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:57 PM EST

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected its latest round of inductees and they are: The diabolically catchy Neil Diamond: American Goth visionary Alice Cooper: New Orleans genius Dr. John: The heart-melting Darlene Love: And the great and powerful Tom Waits:

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arts, jukebox

Legis-laters

Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:18 PM EST

It's comforting to learn the incoming Republican-led Congress has nothing but serving the people on its mind. Soon-to-be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wrote a letter to his colleagues announcing that in 2011, the House will work 123 days and 32 weeks of session. Rock on!

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brainstorm

How Soon Is Now?

Thu Dec 9, 2010 7:56 PM EST

With all the turmoil in London right now, what was the topic of discussion in Parliament ? The Smiths. Yeah. The Boy With the Thorn in His Side, This Charming Man, William It Was Really Nothing. Those Smiths.

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arts

Dig this

Wed Dec 8, 2010 2:31 PM EST

Let it never be said that TRMS ignored the latest developments in shovel guitar. Last weekend in Japan , 120 shovel rockers convened to, um, bang on a shovel with a spoon (or bottle opener).

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arts

Baby Aardvark Friday

Fri Dec 3, 2010 3:12 PM EST

The Bronx Zoo has a new baby aardvark . His nickname is Hoover. Kittens and puppies, consider the cute baby gauntlet officially hurled downward.

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environment, not-news

Leslie Nielsen FTW!!

Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:48 PM EST

(Click for the more-or-less wonderfully profane Leslie Nielsen highlight reel.) Here's to a good-looking leading man who made every other good-looking leading man look like an unfunny version of Leslie Nielsen.

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arts

Bludger, sweat and tears

Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:24 PM EST

If further evidence is needed that the Harry Potter phenomenon isn't going away any time in the foreseeable decades, here are some impressions from the Quidditch World Cup IV in New York.

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Gorgeous mosaics

Tue Nov 2, 2010 2:08 PM EDT

Apologies if this seems unrelated to the mid-term elections, but if some of you can find a metaphor hiding in here, go for it. (Searching, patterns, the randomness of the cosmos, unexpected beauty?, etc.) These are tiles from the Wynn in Las Vegas. The shoes are mine.

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arts

Chuck!!!

Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:37 PM EDT

Happy 84th Birthday to Mr. Charles Edward Anderson Berry Now everybody, duckwalk!!

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arts, jukebox

Palin Bear Gender Gaffe-Gate shocker!

Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:13 PM EDT

At a recent fundraiser in San Jose, California, Sarah Palin told the crowd she was delighted to be in a "state that puts a mama grizzly on its flag." Grizzly? Yes. Mama? Um, no. Here's the story:

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odd-news, sarah-palin

Me and the Trees -- A Love Story

Thu Oct 7, 2010 6:29 PM EDT

I spent part of last week in Big Basin State Park in California among thousand-year-old redwoods. Makes you think. Enjoy.

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environment

Small business, 1. Newt Gingrich, zero

Thu Oct 7, 2010 1:30 PM EDT

The Rachel Maddow Show has harbored a special affection for the Lodge in Dallas and its owner, Dawn Rizos, ever since last year, when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's conservative group named her an "Entrepreneur of the Year." Ms.

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newt-gingrich

Great Excretations

Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:24 PM EDT

(From Environmental Protection) What with the pooping and the bending and the bagging and the tossing, the whole canine waste removal dance can begin to seem pointless after a while. What does it all mean?

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environment

Mala-plop

Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:04 AM EDT

Cool, right? This shiny slab of high tech Euro-gloss is the new electric car from Audi. And what name did the German auto haus choose for their new green sex machine? The E-Tron. Slight problem? The word etron in French means, um, poop.

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oops

Oktoberstinken

Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:53 PM EDT

Big changes at Oktoberfest. First, for the duration of the fall blowout that kicks off on September 18 -- not technically Oktober, but why wait? -- organizers in Munich have banned smoking in the big beer tents.

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health

The Godfather of Bling

Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:23 PM EDT

Sorry for the bummer bomb everybody, but the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports reports that the incomparably fabulous Liberace Museum is closing in October due to shrinking attendance.

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arts, amazing

"The Grand Design": A lay layman's opinion

Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:03 PM EDT

(Your brain on Stephen Hawking.) I just finished reading Stephen Hawking's latest book, "The Grand Design," and I really enjoyed it. At least, I enjoyed the one fourth of it I could understand.

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science, stephen-hawking

Victory Through Da Feet

Thu Sep 9, 2010 2:57 AM EDT

Fellas: If you feel the quickest way to a woman's heart is through her feet, listen up. Researchers at Northumbria University in England say there is a right way to bust a move…and a wrong way. (See above videos. The top one? Right. The bottom one? Wrong)

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arts

We lived to see it: Deep-fried beer

Wed Sep 1, 2010 3:52 PM EDT

We've all been there. After the exhausting process of drinking beer well into the daylight hours, then one must pivot to the equally arduous work of shoving fried food into one's mouth. If only these two rituals could be combined somehow. Wish granted!

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arts

TRMS Futbol Forum/Metaphor of the Day

Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:12 PM EDT

I'm sure there's a life lesson lurking in here somewhere. Something about not forgetting the strike that comes from WAY WAY down field, the one that could never, EVER actually find its way into your goal. Until it does.

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sports

Rock's not yours...Deal with it

Thu Jun 3, 2010 4:45 PM EDT

Checking in at No. 20, somewhat obscenely. The National Review has offered its list of the 50 Best Conservative Rock Songs of all time.

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arts

Shaka, Brah!

Fri May 21, 2010 5:15 PM EDT

Score one for the House of Representatives: this week they passed a resolution honoring Kelly Slater for his sublime surfing supreme-itude. According to the Honolulu Advertiser:

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sports, kelly-slater

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