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Y’all know I’m childish, right? I mean, you may say
child-like, but it’s really childish. Case in point: after taking a long hike along the river last
weekend, as we were driving home I was tormenting Carlos as a childish person
does, and he … well, I posted this on my phone to remind me: “On Saturday August 31, 2024, and I am going to spot him a half hour starting at 11AM, Carlos Divid Harris said he was not going to speak to me for twenty-four hours. I laughed and said he wouldn’t last twenty-four seconds. He said he would not speak again until 11AM on September 1, 2024. We’ll see how that goes; I am writing this down so that when he fails, and he will, I will have proof.” Carlos began speaking at 11:35 AM which means, with the
half-hour I spotted him, he stopped speaking for about 9 minutes. And to be
fair, that was longer than the twenty-four seconds I thought he’d last. |
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Here’s proof that just because you’re a relatively slender
model, it doesn’t mean you can have the most delightful cakes. |
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Melanie has unveiled the cover for her upcoming memoir and
despite its minimalist design, some critics claim it's a blatant act
of plagiarism. What? Melanie? Plagiarize? Like Michelle Obama’s DNC speech
years back? Melanie's book cover is an all-black with simple white text
reading 'MELANIA' in all caps … and looks suspiciously like the iconic Chanel
Catwalk book. I haven’t read it, and won’t read it, but I’m told it’s the
story of Melanie’s life on Chicago’s South Side and working hard to attend both
Harvard and Princeton before marrying the love of her life and giving birth to
Sasha and Malia. Just sayin’. |
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In Camden, as it is in many small towns across the state, we have an opera house. Of course, it fell into disuse many years ago and when we moved here only the ground floor was being used as a secondhand store. Sad, really, for such a beautiful building. And for years there was talk about recreating the opera house interior but then a couple of years ago the talk turned toward making the opera house a boutique hotel, and that’s apparently going to happen. That photo up there is the opera house and its clock tower that chimes on the hour and the quarter- and half-hours. And down there are the renderings of what the hotel will be: four floors and 50 rooms, with a restaurant in the lobby and called The Haigler Hotel, so named for a noble Catawba Chief who befriended Camden’s pioneers. The clock tower, though not seen in the renderings will remain and still chime the hours each day. Our little town is growing but it’s keeping its sense of history, and I am here for that!  |
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You’ve heard of Weekend at Bernie’s but this true story
is more Weekend at Wells Fargo. There’s an investigation underway in Tempe, Arizona after a
Wells Fargo employee—and I won’t post her name so as not to embarrass her
family—died while on the job and no one noticed. A timeline released by police suggests her body was there
for four days before being discovered. How does that happen? |
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The Venice Film Festival has been going on for a couple of weeks and here are some style icons, clockwise in no particular order … Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Eva Green and Nicole Kidman. Stunning, but there’s always room for a thirst-seeker and this year’s was Eva Herzigova wearing … God Only Knows™.  |
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Last week I mentioned that one school district in Oklahoma
was refusing to follow the order of State Superintendent Ryan Walters and his
demand for Bible Study in all public schools. Now, out of about 540 public districts and charter schools
in the state, 54 superintendents responded to the survey and, when asked if
their district was requiring educators to teach on or from the Bible, 46 said ‘No’
and just two said ‘Yes;’ others were unclear on the guidelines. Taking a stand … even in Oklahoma. |
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This is Stefano Tomadini—sounds like a Delicious pasta dish—an Italian model. But this isn’t about food or models, it’s about a simple question: Would You Hit It?    |
