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I’m Betting It Will Smell Like a Poot
Someone's come up with the concept of a billboard that emits a smell. With the possible exception of the french fry smell coming from a McDonalds I've found that smells that you would assume to be great, like the smell from a BBQ restaurant, usually morph into a rather unpleasant odor that would appear to be emanating from a car passenger's backside.
I Guess Drinks Are On Dr. Hutton
MyBridges.net is a local social networking thingamajig that gave away $1,000 to a lucky member to be shared with a charity of his or her choosing. When I saw who the lucky winner was I was kind of gob-smacked: it was Dr. Ron Hutton with whom I served on the Lewisville Zoning Board of Adjustment for several years. I don't think I've seen him since I left the ZBOA, but I might have to look him up to see how he's spending his lucre!
If I Drink 142.85 Cups of Coffee Today I’m Probably a Goner
I drink a lot of coffee. By a lot I mean A LOT, and it bothers some people enough that they nag me and tell me if I drink too much coffee all kinds of bad things will happen to me. When I reply, "Like what?" they generally hem and haw because they have no research to back up their assertions. I'll readily admit that nothing is good for you if you ingest too much of it, but I don't think I've hit that point with coffee so I don't worry too much about it. If I did happen to worry about it I now know, thanks to this website, how much coffee I can drink before I'll die. BTW, it would take 445 cans of Coke Classic to put me six feet under. Useful info.
A Candy So Gross It’s Destined To Be a Hit
I have a feeling that Zit Poppers are gonna be a huge hit with the pre-teens, teens and unevolved adults. What's next, Poop Lickers?
Video of Tasered Streaker is Interesting for Unexpected Reason
A video shot in Wrightsville Beach by Greensboro resident Stephen Stearns is interesting, but not because it features a naked dude being tasered by the police. Sure, that's interesting if you're into seeing a naked guy tasered in the middle of the street, but I was more interested in the fact that Mr. Stearns kept running his camera even as he was being ordered by the police to stop. He rightly pointed out that he was in a public place and that he had every right to continue filming. The officer threatened to arrest him, but Mr. Stearns held his ground and he obviously won the argument because he continued to record as the streaker was being escorted away by the police.
Father’s Day Gift for the REALLY Manly Man
I believe the picture speaks for itself.
If you want to buy it for Dad you can do so here.
Whitaker Park and Wake Forest
My parents both worked for RJR while they were students at Wake Forest. When I saw the news that Reynolds is closing down its Whitaker Park operation I emailed both of them to see if they'd heard the news (they hadn't) and to see if they'd actually worked at that particular facility. Ends up that they had. Mom told me that the first summer they worked for RJR they were downtown, but the second summer they were at Whitaker. Dad said he remembered working at the "state of the art" facility as well. Mom mentioned that it was divided into six units, four for Salems and two for Camels, and that she worked in Unit 1 and Dad worked in Unit 3. Dad thought the shift ran from 4 p.m. to midnight.
Dad also wrote, "Wake could use it for some type of recreation facility. Because of its location you would think that would be prime real estate and would make a sizable tax deductable gift, that is if they have any profits to shelter." Seems that he and Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce head honcho Gayle Anderson are on the same page.
Weekend Escape to Badin Lake
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Doctor vs. Big Pharma and Government: Burzynski at a/perture
Cancer is insidious and I'd venture a guess that almost every person in America has been touched by the disease. Whether it's a family member, a co-worker or a friend we know someone who has had cancer and we've seen first hand how it decimates them and their loved ones. That's why watching Burzynski, the movie will likely infuriate you.
The movie is a documentary about a doctor and chemist named, you guessed it, Burzynski who discovered a revolutionary treatment for cancer more than 30 years ago. Thanks to battles with myriad government and private entities his treatment has had difficulty getting approved for advanced clinical trials, and has only been available to a limited number of patients as a result. That's all I'm going to say about the actual content of the movie for fear of spoiling it, but I will say that while I found the movie to be obviously slanted towards supporting Dr. Burzynski, it also provides compelling and objective evidence in support of its stance. I also found it refreshingly absent of the kind of stunts that Michael Moore has made popular with his movies, and instead relies on public documents, interviews and public hearings to make its case.
All that's not to say that the movie is boring or slow. To the contrary the pacing seems just right, there's very little redundancy in the evidence presented and yet it still seems thorough. As a result Burzynski is compelling, the story infuriating and it's a movie I highly recommend seeing.
Burzynski, the movie is appearing this weekend (May 29-30) through next week at a/perture cinema (across from Mellow Mushroom on Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem) was written, directed and produced by Eric Merola. You can find show times on a/perture's website.
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