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Bizarre Tidbits From The Parallel Dimension

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Ghosts
I truly believe there is a parallel dimension that crosses into our lives at certain times and we have contacts from beyond. Things shift in the corners of our eyes. We may at times actually see what appears to be mumbling figures wondering in and out of places. But they are usually blurry and seem totally unreal in the scheme of life. It's kind of like dealing with DC politicians.
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News Announcer Nightmare Name 

Police are still trying to figure out why a 34-year-old mother committed suicide by leaping from her family's minivan on I-75 in Lockland on Monday. Lockland police on Tuesday identified the victim as Vijayalakshmi Comanagowda Kulkarni. I was going to watch the news to see if anyone could pronounce the name, but I later heard they kept it off the news because no one could pronounce the name.

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Public Housing: Your Neighborhood, Not Mine (or) Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
The housing authority’s former board chairman, Arnold Barnett, is a township resident and was blamed for blocking public housing in the community. He resigned last year under pressure from HUD. (He wanted public housing in your neighborhood, but didn't want it in his own neighborhood. Some people just don't want to share the burden.)
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Tallulah Bankhead Quotes:

(She was a famous actress from way back when, and she seemed to not take things all that seriously.)

"I'm as pure as the driven slush"

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

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The Fate Of Most Writers

Zora Neale Hurston – Genius of the South


Died 1970

The four-time published novelist, Guggenheim winner, and star of New York’s Harlem Renaissance ended her working years right where she had started – working as a maid in Florida. Her three brief marriages had all been failures, she had no close friends, and lived out her final days in the St. Lucie County Welfare Home. When she died, a collection had to be taken to cover her funeral costs.


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Comments

  1. Anonymous11:52 AM

    She died in 1960, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston

    Al Sirois

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  2. Unknown7:03 PM

    Hi, Al:
    That could be. I just took the date from the obit report on her and they could have had the wrong date.

    ReplyDelete

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