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  • Picture Too Sexy for Tilly's Catalog

    Wondering what your thoughts are on this photo from the Holiday Tilly's Catalog? Is this too suggestive or is it just me? The catalog has clothing, accessories, and shoes, and is marketed to the  10- 18 year old category of shopper. They even have a store in the Lynnhaven Mall. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Are You a Strict Parent? MTV/CMT Wants You?

      Here's a message from the Virginia Production Alliance: CALLING ALL STRICT PARENTS!  Do other parents come to you for advice?  Do you have the most well-behaved teens on the block?  Do you pride yourself on being a strict parent?  If the answer is YES, WE WANT YOU!  [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:02pm EST

  • TLC and Plus 8 is Wrong

    It's amazing that TLC, the channel that appears to know nothing about marriages, children, or how to stay neutral in a divorce is touting their new show called, The Knot: [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 8:51am EDT

  • Sexual Assault of Women in the Military

    This is worth a repeat from my blog from [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 2:23pm EDT

  • GET YOUR WORD ON

    Get Your Word On [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 8:53pm EDT

  • BOOKS IN THE PARK

    Featuring Joe Tennis, Robert Allen, and Mark Hansen  2pm-4pm Cash In A Flash: Fast Money in Slow Times  (New Release: August 25, 2009) by Robert Allen & Mark Hansen [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:53am EDT

  • JAMES AND ME

    The JAMES and ME Video Contest is open to middle school, high school and college students throughout the James River basin. We will accept entries beginning in August 2009, but you can start working on your video this summer. [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 6:31pm EDT

  • THE MUSE

      AltDaily Check out www.AltDaily.com, Hampton Roads' news, arts, and culture alternative. All stories and writers are local to the 757. One of the editors, Jesse Scaccia, is teaching Writing About Local Culture this Fall (see class list below). His email for any queries: jesse@24sevencities.com.   Sign-up for a Creative Writing Class this Fall ' [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:15am EDT

  • WOMEN IN THE ARTS

      WOMEN IN THE ARTS NEWSLETTER  FIND OUT ABOUT UPCOMING FESTIVAL AND FUNDING DEADLINES IN OUR SEPTEMBER 2009 THEATRE AND FILM/VIDEO FUNDING NEWSLETTERS Dear Theatre and Film/Video Artists, Our Funding Newsletters for September 2009 are now online. To read them, please click on the links further down on this page.   [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:34pm EDT

  • AV TECH JOB

    A job opportunity I thought some of you may be interested in   Location: Westminster Canterbury in Richmond, VA   www.wescanric.org/   Audio Visual Technician PR, Marketing & Theater [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:56pm EDT

  • 48 Hour Film

    48 HOUR FILM PROJECT [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 8:09am EDT

  • Gates Police Report

      POLICE REPORT [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 3:08pm EDT

  • HR Bridge Tunnel Nightmare

    Living in Virginia Beach and working in Hampton has never been easy, but today the commute was a real nightmare. [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 6:51pm EDT

  • RECAPTCHA

    We've all seen those funny little boxes with the crazy lettering on our favorite websites like Facebook and so on. These little boxes are responsible for sorting the humans and the computers and keeping out bogus comments. Turns out those boxes are called CAPTCHA. And now with RECAPTCHA the boxes' [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:53am EDT

  • CUPCAKE FLOSS

    Just when you thought life couldn't get any better....     Available from Urban Outfitters    ' [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 1:16pm EDT

  • Help Nora win $10,000

    Looks like a local girl just might be able to make good with a little help from her friends in Hampton Roads. Our own Nora Firestone of Virginia Beach and her website "Thanking of you " are one of the top 8 finalists for the $10,000 prize at ideablob. Idea blob [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:56pm EDT

  • American Nazis

    Tonight at 9PM. National Geographic Channel INSIDE: AMERICAN NAZIS An inside look at the neo-nazi movement in the U.S. Including the Buford Furrow shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. This program will air several times in the next week. After today's shooting at the Holocaust Museum important information on hate in [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 4:48pm EDT

  • A Working Class Hero

    Bob Flanagan’s Newest Book was Recently Released by Bottom Dog Press. Bob has a story in my collection, Bar Stories and he is also a widely successful author and poet. His Marine Corp book, Maggot is hard hitting and a best seller. Here's a link to his website. Check out the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 8:43pm EDT

  • Can you identify these people?

    Finally got the card out of that camera that I found awhile back. It took awhile but here are some of the pictures. More to come later If anyone knows these people or recognizes the places leave me the info in the comment section. I'd like to get the camera back to the owner. And' [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 11:05am EDT

  • It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's a Refrigerator...

      We all  heard that BIG noise on Sunday night.    At my house we were loafing on the settee in the middle of an intense marathon of Law & Order re-runs when it KABOOMED outside. It happened somewhere between finding the dead body and Briscoe's deadpan line that ends the intro... ' [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 8:23pm EDT

  • It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's a Refrigerator...

      We all heard that BIG noise on Sunday night. At my house we were loafing on the setee in the middle of an intense marathon of Law & Order re-runs when it KABOOMED outside. It happened somewhere between finding the dead body and Briscoe's deadpan line that ends the intro. "What's that," [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 8:23pm EDT

  • What Not to Do When Your car is Towed in Virginia Beach

      It was Sunday and my daughter was running in the Shamrock Marathon. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 8:55pm EDT

  • Death of the Newspaper

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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 10:10am EDT

  • FOUND OLYMPUS CAMERA

    A couple of girls were out riding their bikes in front of my place a week ago when they stopped to retrieve something in the road. The something was a camera.When I saw them trying to figure out what to do  I told them I would take it try to [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

  • American Idol App for iphone

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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 5:48pm EDT

  • PF CHANGED

    Last Tuesday night after almost three hours planted in my seat watching The Watchman at Columbus Theater I headed over to PF Changs for some eats. I was hungry. I'd seen the crowds on Friday and Saturday nights at this popular Town Center restaurant and figured I'd better get out [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:54am EDT

  • The New Narcissism

    You're so vain You probably think this song is about you You're so vain I'll bet you think this song is about you Don't you? Don't you?   ' [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 12:33am EDT

  • First Grandma in the House

    FIRST GRANDMA www.youtube.com/watch   FIRST MOTHERS [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2009, 9:10pm EDT

  • Jazz Loft Project

    Born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas, W. Eugene (Gene) Smith was a legendary photojournalist who got his start working for Newsweek. Smith's stubborn personality and prickly perfectionism however kept him from fitting in at the conservative publication. In 1939 he signed an exclusive contract with Life. [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 11:10am EST

  • Pickled Eggs

    PICKLED EGGS Never heard of them, then you probably don't know what a cow patty is either. I was first introduced to these pink delicacies in a place called, The Octagon Bar in Upstate New York. Cheap beer and pickled eggs from a huge mayonnaise jar served by a toothless bartender.' [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 9:05pm EST

  • Musicophilia

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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 10:17am EST

  • Rainbow Room

    Dinner for two at $600. Martinis $21.50. A $24 chicken sandwich. The prices are not for the faint of heart and the food bland and tasteless enough to please your grandmother, but after 75 years of serving up mediocre meals and expensive drinks the venerable Rainbow Grill is finally closing [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 6:44pm EST

  • Surfing for Life

    The surfing documentary, Surfing for Life narrated by Beau Bridges offered profiles of ten legendary surfers. Included in the group was John "Doc" Ball an early surf photographer who wrote the classic surf book, California Surfriders (1946). [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 9:48pm EST

  • Coco Chanel

    Audrey Tatou the French actress who played the winsome and eccentric Amelie in the 2001 movie of the same name is set to star in a new bio-pic about the early years of the famous fashonista Coco Chanel.  Scheduled for a mid-2009 release Coco Before Chanel is based on Chanel's' [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:20pm EST

  • Mom's Ten Rules For Life

    MOM'S TEN RULES FOR LIFE   1.         Believe in something. Don’t say, “I don’t care” when you don’t mean it.  Caring and caring deeply about anything isn’t a mistake. Some of the best things ' [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2009, 10:59pm EST

  • New Black Panther Party

    Last July 4th the New Black Panther Party a racist and anti-Semitic hate group burned the American Flag on the street in NYC during  an event that the group calls the "4th of U-Lie." What was astounding was that few people even stopped. Most just went about their business. Many [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 6:12pm EST

  • AMERICAN NAZIS

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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 9:59am EST

  • KKK: American Terror on National Geographic

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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 8:20pm EDT

  • KKK: American Terror on National Geographic

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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 8:19pm EDT

  • Mothers in the Fatherland

    <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nvjvKkd-RB4/SNRLoVjcy1I/AAAAAAAACT4/uIhxA7E4oCk/s1600-h/16624.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247902622146153298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nvjvKkd-RB4/SNRLoVjcy1I/AAAAAAAACT4/uIhxA7E4oCk/s400/16624.jpg" border="0" />&lt [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 5:45am EDT

  • American Terror

    The KKK with its fiery crosses and hooded robes is one of the most potent symbols of hate in this country. Now after a period of relative calm Klan activity is increasing and experts say that the Klan may be rising again. Since its beginnings following the Civil War the [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 5:30am EDT

  • Indigo Children

    Are You An Indigo?   [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2008, 4:05pm EDT

  • Elephants Drunk in the Wild?

    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, [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2008, 10:11pm EDT

  • Ten Rules for Life

    I share with you my ten rules for life: MOM’S TEN RULES FOR LIFE 1. Believe in something. Don’t say, “I don’t care” when you don’t mean it. Caring and caring deeply about anything isn’t a mistake. Some of the best things that have happened in the world happened because one [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 7:02pm EDT

  • Have You Heard

    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. [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 5:28pm EDT

  • Wicked Attraction

    What kind of psychic recipe transforms an average woman into a female programmed to kill? What does it take to convince an ordinary woman to act out in ghoulish fantasies as an act of love and devotion? What turns a pretty young girl from a “loving and caring” family into [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 4:38pm EDT

  • Gypsy Rose Lee

    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 Laurents, who also wrote the book. [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2008, 10:53pm EDT

  • GHETTO BROTHERS

    When I was fifteen my grandfather died, and my father brought home his old black and white television set. Our house was small with not much space to store things, so my father set the thing on the floor of my room. It took a few weeks, but one night [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2008, 6:43am EDT

  • Where The Wild Things Are

    Let the Rumpus begin. Where the Wild Things Are is set to appear in theaters in 2009 with a new script by Spike Jonze (Adaptation) and Dave Eggers (Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). Currently in post production the cast includes James Galdolfini, Forest Whitaker, and seven wild creatures that have [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2008, 8:35pm EST

  • SPLIT THIS ROCK

    Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness Washington, DC March 20-23, 2008 http://www.splitthisrock.org/ info@splitthisrock.org [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2008, 11:20am EST

  • THE BIRTH OF COOL

      The idea of cool has been kicking around for a long time and everyone knowns what it means. Cool is an aesthetic, an attitude, and an amorphous but defining quality that is often difficult to explain, but easily recognizable once it is teased from the ether.   [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2008, 3:19pm EST

  • Freezing in New York

    Looks like it's pretty cold in NY. People are freezing--- ... [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 7:49pm EST

  • Valentine's Day Latte

    My daughter used to hang out in this coffee shop in Boulder when she was a student. On the last day before she graduated and headed home her favor ... [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2008, 9:51am EST

  • Christmas Keeps On

    In case you've been wondering what I got for Christmas--- Life is good with Internet shopping. ... [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2008, 11:39am EST

  • IS HELL REAL?

    Pointy-tailed Devils with pitchforks. Naked souls writhing in a lake of fire. The acrid smell of Brimstone. (What is Brimstone anyway?) ... [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 1:23pm EST

  • Support 5 Points Market

    This Sunday - Feb 10 - There will be a special seating at The Boot Brunch at 1:30pm to benefit the 5 Points Farm Market. There will be breakfast b ... [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 8:19am EST

  • Spock Goes Nude

    Leonard Nimoy is one of the latest to add his voice to the female body acceptance movement. Last May he mounted a gallery show that featur ... [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 2:14pm EST

  • Haunted Television

    Stories of souls trapped or lost in television's nowhere land permeated the folklore of the Sputnik Era. In 1953 the NY Times carried an ar ... [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2008, 3:09pm EST

  • Happiness

    Everyone recognizes that in the groove feeling when someone is totally immersed, focused, and fully involved in some activity. In this stat ... [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2008, 5:05pm EST

  • New Black Panthers

    The New Black Panther Party takes its name from the original Black Panther Party, a radical black nationalist group active in the 1960s a ... [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2008, 4:23pm EST

  • Drinking Games

    Researchers at San Diego University did a little field work recently and discovered first hand that drinking games lead to higher blood alcohol level ... [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 9:54pm EST

  • ZIPSKINNY

    Want to get the skinny on your ZIPCODE? Learn all the data that the Federal Government gleaned from the last Census by visiting ZIPSKINNY. You can ... [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2008, 10:09am EST

  • Duplessis Orphans

    Fifty years ago in Quebec the care of children living in Roman Catholic run orphanages was paid by the provincial government, but those in mental inst ... [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2008, 7:04am EST

  • Writer's Inspiration

    Bylines 2008 Attention all writers. Need to jump start your writing career in the New Year? The new Bylines calendar is now available. This coil bo ... [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2008, 9:44am EST

  • Writer's Inspiration

    Bylines 2008 Attention all writers. Need to jump start your writing career in the New Year? The new Bylines calendar is now available. This coil bo ... [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2008, 9:44am EST

  • New Age Travellers

    The New Age Travellers are a loose band of modern day drop outs attracted to the nomad existence. Travellers eschew the ho-hum convential lifestyle a ... [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 9:17pm EST

  • Free Beer

    Guess what? I posted this a few weeks back and my Sis is one of the latest winners. Whoopee Do! That means free beer.....glug....glug. One more day ... [...]
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    Posted: December 28, 2007, 7:30pm EST

  • Liquid Art

    Art turns liquid in an exhibition in Dresden, Germany November 29th where Hannes Broecker invited gallery visitors to Drink Aw ... [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2007, 7:21pm EST

  • Stepford Wives

    The Capras delusion is a rare disorder where a person suffers from the delusion that someone close to them has been replaced by an identical lookin ... [...]
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    Posted: December 20, 2007, 10:13am EST

  • Daydream Believer

    The inner domain of the human brain is an interesting planet that I visit often. My own personal INZONE is a spectacular place that boasts a constan ... [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2007, 9:15pm EST

  • Bio-Mapping

    Since 2004 a community research project known as BioMapping has wired up over 1,000 people with an innovative device which records the wearer's Gal ... [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2007, 12:27pm EST

  • Night of the Living Dead

    I can't think about Zombies without being reminded of Night of the Living Dead one of the original scare-fest movies of the 1960's. Before Tim B ... [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 2:45pm EST

  • Zombie Squad

    Ran across information on Zombie Squad a St. Louis group while tip-toeing through the Internet looking into the recent resurgence in the survivali ... [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2007, 2:15pm EST

  • SERPICO

    In 1971 Frank Serpico was the first cop in the history of the NYC Police Department to break through the blue wall of silence to testify about widesp ... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2007, 5:26pm EST

  • American Skinhead Video

    Tonight is the night! American Skinhead airs at 9PM on the National Geographic Channel and I'm pretty excited. American Skinhead is local producer M ... [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2007, 9:48am EST

  • Friday Night

    Walk this way on Friday night and take some pictures for me if you are so inclined. I'm looking for some bar pictures to post on the blog and I can' ... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 5:54pm EST
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