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TV reporters seem visibly upset that Earl may not make landfall
Serves me right for watching morning news, which is always TV's dumbest timeslot.
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Is this Project Runway's "meanest season ever"?
Or is the new 90-minute format just showing us what's always been there -- the ridiculously petty interaction between ambitious, self-absorbed people? Either way, it's extremely satisfying to watch. I...
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Chompies
On Monday, Texas State Fair judges will choose this year's Big Tex Award winners. How can you not be excited? Of course the talk is all about the Fried Beer but I think an adults-only treat is somehow...
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Turns out migration assistant cannot migrate or assist
I am taking my old computer in to have everything transferred to my new computer so I'll be without any computer for a few days. I'm not nervous or sad or filled with dread or convinced something...
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"Caesars Palace gets so many requests for a suite that doesn’t exist from...
What one movie can do for Las Vegas tourism: "'The Hangover' suite, an amalgamation of three Caesars suites and a little Hollywood magic, existed only on a soundstage in Southern California. But that...
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About 6 weeks later and we still don't know what the hell was going on at the...
Even an explanation from the court-pappointed restructuring officer can't clear up Mark Cuban's role in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy auction: "Snyder said sports commentators got it wrong by asserting...
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Today Nate Berkus might want to make time to read his first design blog
The national scandal that is NateGate: design bloggers "waited and waited and waited and waited, and finally, last week many of us got word that the day had finally come. The blogger show was scheduled...
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House rates "much higher on the forgiveness scale than Lone Star hero’s...
No one knows why Lone Star failed but I do think there's something to Nellie Andreeva's theory. Dr House spends a great deal of time in obvious physical pain, engendering some measure of sympathy. Lone...
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If there's a Kennedy involved, there must be conspiracy theories
From Vulture: Project Runway's Tim Gunn "has been posting episode postmortems to his Facebook page, sharing his unfiltered, uncensored thoughts in ten-minute videos.... His frustration came to a head...
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10 random things about Twitter
1. Actually, I don't have 10. But I've realized that tweets that mention numbered lists and link to articles with numbered lists evidently garner a lot of attention. 2. And those articles usually suck....
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Something someone wrote about TV that I think applies to advertising and...
From a Masked Scheduler post about the now-fired NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker: You either respect the television audience; they work hard, love their friends and families, struggle to make ends meet and to...
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No one likes the fried beer
They were spitting it out. Literally. Taking a bite and spitting it out and warning total strangers not to try it. I've never seen this happen with any food ever at the Texas State Fair. Maybe the...
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Last night's Project Runway was remarkable
And Laura Bennett provides amazingly clear and intelligent commentary. I especially like this: "the work of these artists, despite the anguish, was never morbid. Pain was not romanticized."Last night...
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$1 reading glasses are back at Target! OMG!
Not as many styles but still cute and now packaged in zip-lock pouches. For younger shoppers: Although Mulberry bags fail to impress, Christmas lights are on the shelves and the Mickey Mouse Band-Aids...
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"Being part of the festivities meant everything to Hamilton"
Texas Rangers start their victory celebration with ginger ale instead of champagne so teammates Josh Hamilton and CJ Wilson can join in. Video here. Wilson's tweet -- "#gingeralecelebration because...
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Why won't anyone buy Tom Hicks' hockey team?
It really can't improve prospects for a Dallas Stars sale when everyone's still in court re-hashing the bankruptcy of his baseball team: "As a condition of [Major League Baseball's] loaning the Rangers...
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Selling luxury vs selling status
Profits at Tiffany's are up and it's not because of that shabby little counter they set aside for silver: "Demand has been strongest among Tiffany's wealthiest customers, who drove 'double-digit'...
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Maybe Budweiser's "Real Men of Genius" spots have finally run out of people...
Once, they made lighthearted fun of wrestling costumes and toupees -- things we can all laugh at -- now, with "Mr rolling cooler cooler roller" and "Barbershop," they seem to belittle targets that...
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I guess video of someone calmly looking at a monitor wouldn't make for...
Confusing numbers. The "average shopper spent $365.34 -- up more than 6 percent from a year ago," but the increase seems to be overwhelmingly in online purchasing: "Online sales surged 9 percent to...
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Coty's buying spree: first Philosophy skincare, now OPI nail products
From Bloomberg: "Coty Inc., the seller of perfumes by Sarah Jessica Parker and Vera Wang, is close to buying nail-care company OPI Products Inc. for about $1 billion in cash." So Coty will own both...
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