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Reality is Overrated
 Brandi Bowers |
Fall 2009 TV CancellationsThu, November 12, 2009 @ 3:11PM Well, it's that time of year. We are well into the Fall television season and we've had quite a mixture of new shows airing. Of course, they don't all make it to next year... or even the end of this season. So far the following shows have been canceled & here are some of my thoughts on this: Trauma (NBC: one season) Did we really need another ER knock off right after that show ended? The answer is no. ER ended because it had it's run, not because it was a bad show. So, what made NBC think it was a good idea to put the same exact show in the same exact time slot, but without the amazing cast or fresh story lines? Dollhouse (FOX: two seasons) I'm actually disappointed this one was canceled. This show was created by Joss Whedon, who was the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of my favorite shows of all time. I have to admit, though, like many people, I rarely watched it. Why? Because it aired on Friday nights.
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*HeY HaY*
 Hayley Call |
No, I don't want a Macy's cardMon, November 16, 2009 @ 9:25AM I went christmas shopping last week to finish up everything. I like to do things really early because everything is in stock, sonmetimes cheaper, and so the day before christmas I am not running around trying to find gifts for people. I also found that this helps me budget better for the months of December and January. This year it seems like mall sales people are getting really pushy. I felt like every 5 seconds I was saying "No, I don't want a credit card." If I wanted to open up a card, I would have asked you. Not only do those cards sit in your wallet for years on end, but they hurt your credit just sitting there. I went to Sephora to get my Bare Minerals foundation.
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Backfire
 Paul Giannamore |
Now hear this, fat guyMon, November 9, 2009 @ 11:56AM My family doctor is usually a jolly guy. We usually end up talking about Central athletics, the political state of the community and what it's like to be an Italian-American. Last time I went to see him, however, he was absolutely in shock. My "elevated liver functions" were off the charts bad. He was tossing around terms like "cirrhosis" and "hepatitis" and "failure" and diabetes. No, I'm no drinker. You may note here, thought, that I'm a big ol' fat guy, carring around about one extra high-school graduate-sized me compared with what I weighed 30 years ago. And it's not just from the loss of hair. More like a love of pizza and cheeseburgers. I had heard this speech a couple of times before, but this time it was different. The doctor was more somber. The numbers were worse. And I've got a kid in college and a grandkid on the way (gasp, I'm too young for that, and the kid will call me Pablo, not Papap or Grandpa.) I went into crash mode.
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Something for Nothing
 Jeremy Johns |
I don't feel sorry for youWed, November 18, 2009 @ 8:45AM Mr. Animal trainer, I don't feel sorry for you. A few weeks ago a bear tore apart a trainer on an ice rink. A few weeks ago people were saying, "I don't know what happened" A few weeks ago someone lost their life to stupidity. A few weeks ago I did not feel sorry for that person. WHY? I did not feel sorry for that person because he had a bear on ice skates going around a ice rink. NEWS FLASH, this just in.... BEARS ARE NOT MEANT TO ICE SKATE! It makes me sick when I see things like this. I read the article about the person being attacked by a bear a little while back and let it be. I did not really think about it much until just now. I was on TMZ.com to see if anything great happened in the celeb world and seen they had a story with a bear playing hockey. The photo looks awkward and it ticks me off that they have the bears feet in ice skates. It is sick in my min.
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Preparing for rain
 Mike Mathison |
Oops!Mon, November 16, 2009 @ 12:29PM You will see a pretty good little story today in my column about Cleveland Browns standout Josh Cribbs. In the column I basically said he played for two colleges -- Akron and the Golden Flashes. Akron is the Zips and Kent State is the Golden Flashes. Cribbs played quarterback at Kent State. My bad and I apologize. It is, though, a really good story about a guy who honored a commitment and did so rather quietly. He wanted to honor his former coach at Kent State, Mike Drake, who died of cancer in 2005 by walking his son, Michael, at Senior Night on Oct. 30 at Stow High School. Michael had no idea it was being done and was rather shocked when he saw Cribbs there. Wwhen Michael crossed the field the announcer introduced the trio accompanying him as 'mother Patty, sister Abby and brother Josh.' Way coo.
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