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Brian Logan No Longer Wrestling with the Past
May 7, 2008
The YouTube footage looks bad, real bad. You see an enraged Brian Logan leap from the ring and clothesline a fan who appears to be walking away. A fight materializes and then the video cuts out.
Jump to April 18, 2008. Brian Logan, in his hometown of Fayetteville, W.Va., is hoisting the AWA World Heavyweight Championship belt high over his head. He has beaten the odds and there were many.
“You know, I had the whole town behind me and the crowd on my side,” said Logan. “I got inducted into the Hall of Fame that night. I had all my neighbors behind me, my heroes in wrestl
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The Mother Truckers More than a Good Name
May 7, 2008
The Mother Truckers have that rare band name — something instantly memorable and timeless. In fact, it’s just timeless and memorable enough that when I learned the band was coming to Huntington May 10 I got excited because I thought they were a band
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Todd Burge — W.Va.’s Musical Renaissance Man
May 7, 2008
Parkersburg’s Todd Burge is a singer/songwriter who has really made a name for himself. He’s got his fingers in many aspects of the music business pie, too: he hosts a radio program and produces other musicians. Check out www.toddburge.com
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A Llberty City state of mind
May 6, 2008
by Ben Spanner
There he was, hanging onto a grated outcropping high above the swarming city street. I had furiously chased this snitch across the island’s borough, through a building and up nine flights of stairs. With
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Sun, April 20, 2008 @ 10:02PM
The finale starts in 1803. John Adams returns to Massachusetts. Dr. Samuel Rush is called to the house -- their daughter has breast cancer. She has to have a mastectomy. There was no anesthesia in those days. They strap her spread eagle to the bed. She bites on a cloth. You can hear the bed rattling downstairs as she struggles. She survives. The rumors of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings abound... which we now know through DNA were true. Adams hurts his foot while gardening. He becomes bored. Their daughter gets cancer again. She refuses treatment. She asks her parents to forgive her absent husband. She dies and we see them have to pack up her childhood things. Her husband returns. He apparently became successful. Gilbert Stuart painted the Adamses, but then President Madison told him they didn't want the pictures in the White House. The Adamses keep the portraits. Abigail appears to have had some sort of stroke and then she dies. Jo
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The First Amazing Festiva
Fri, April 11, 2008 @ 11:26AM
The other day, I went on a photo shoot with Cory Jackson, a reporter for the Charleston Daily Mail. He wanted some photos to accompany his story about two men that had converted an old Ford Festiva into an electric vehicle. I recognized my duty to a friend, and as the best damn photographer around, so I attended. The concept is quite interesting. The car uses no gasoline, but instead has been converted to a system of six batteries that can travel about 15 miles on a single four hour charge. That may not seem like much, but given that the used car was purchased for well under a thousand dollars, and the conversion only cost a few thousand dollars, it does not take too long to realize the advantages of having an extra work car. In a culture that is so attached to gasoline, we must begin looking for alternatives and Matt Rowe and Mike Beahme are taking the initiative on the Huntington front. Using previous work from the Internet, the team put together an impressive work vehicle that
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Iron Man = Best Comic Book Movie Ever
Mon, May 5, 2008 @ 4:32PM
OK, so maybe I'm a little to fresh off of my viewing of "Iron Man." But for the following reasons, I think it's the best comic book movie ever (as always, this is in bullet points): * No other actor has so perfectly been cast as the hero than Robert Downey Jr. Christian Bale was great in "Batman Begins," but, as we've seen with other Batman films, other people can play the caped crusader quite well. * The CGI and effects were the best yet. I could feel in the pit of my stomach, what it was like to fly with Iron Man and at times it was hard to distinguish what was real from what was computer generated. The Spiderman movies all felt too CGI for me at various points. * The level of geekdom was unmatched. Hints, spoilers, cameos, etc. They were all great. * The supporting cast. This is a tough one for me. Michael Caine was perfectly cast as Alfred and I liked Liam Neeson as a supporting actor, too. My biggest complaint against Batman Begins is the villain, however. I like Cili
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Succubus in the City by Nina Harper
Mon, March 24, 2008 @ 1:12PM
Stylish women sipping cocktails at the latest it restaurant, wearing the latest designer work, shoes, and carrying the right bags, complaining about the quality of available men while working their glamourous jobs at fashion magazines and investment firms. Sounds like a scene from Sex in the City? That is the life that Lily inhabits along with her best gal pals, Sybil, Desi, and Eros. There's just one big difference - she's also a succubus, and all of her friends work for the woman downstairs, nicknamed "Martha" in Nina Harper's new book, "Succubus in the City." After centuries of serving up all the bad boys, cheating husbands, and chauvinist pigs to their just desserts, Lily's getting tired of it all. She just wants a man of her own - someone to cuddle her after a long day, someone who sees her without makeup and in sweatpants, someone to actually DATE and love. But it's hard enough for a single woman in New York to find a quality man, let alone a single woman
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"The Piano Sounds Like a Carnival..."
Mon, April 21, 2008 @ 3:53PM
Hello, my name is Benjamin James Spanner. I read books. All kinds of books. Tolstoy, Foer, Blake, Stephenson, Hemingway. I listen to music. Radiohead, Vampire Weekend, Dylan, Buckley, Lennon. I read interesting blogs, keep up to date on progressive social issues, and have had my foot in the door of social change. I'm culturally cool and am part of the growing electronic buzz that is my generation. Now what if I told you I loved Billy Joel. Yup, look at your face right now. I bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that your face went from interested smile to confused twitch. Don't worry, you don't have to pay me, but instead do me a favor and hang with me for a couple more paragraphs. I grew up like most every American kid. We listen to what our Dads listen to, keep some, discard others, and have a weird attachment to the rest.
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For the love of the egg shaker
Wed, April 30, 2008 @ 2:49PM
You know what music needs more of? Egg Shakers. I've got some and they are awesome. It's not that the sound is that revolutionary, they are just smaller maracas, but they are fun. They aren't that cool to stand there on stage and use, but the sounds keeps things moving. They are easy to break and easier to lose, but at least they are cheap. But beyond anything, they just cheer you up. It's a light sound, easy to use and you can throw them around for anyone to play. It's not a deep-love, maybe more of a crush. Like a light-hearted summer fling. I know it's kind of absurd to focus on such an insignificant instrument to the point to write song just to be able to use them, but it's no more silly than taking time out of my day to write about them. Silly little things. Ah, egg shakers.
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