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Now that's a lot of Bull!!!

Ghost hunter in NC finds a real live train

How to lose 56 pounds in a flash

Hoarding, the real dark side

CD Album sales tumble to lowest mark ever.....

"Big Bang Theory" Moves to Thursdays This Fall

Here is a short article and the poster for "The Big Bang Theory" moving to Thursday nights this fall.

Read it here

NY Times Bestseller 50 Years Ago this week

August 21st 1960 saw James Michener's all time classic "Hawaii" atop the NY Times Review of Books Best Selling Hardcover Fiction list. It would spend the majority of 1960 trading the top spot with Allen Drury's monster smash "Advise and Consent".
During 1959 and 1960 these 2 books amassed 78 weeks at #1.
"Hawaii" would be James Michener's most successful novel of his long and storied career spending 48 total weeks at #1.
2 film adaptations of "Hawaii" were made, the first in 1966 which took its main story from the 3rd chapter of the book which covered the settlement of American missionaries on the islands.
In a 1970 sequel "The Hawaiians" with Charlton Heston covered the latter part of the novel.

Upcoming Books for Fall/Winter 2010

The fall 2010 book season is shaping up to be a huge one for readers. The big names all have books due before the end of the year.

Nicolas Sparks kicks it off in September with Safe Haven.


John Grisham's new novel The Confession hits shelves on October 26th.


Vince Flynn's newest Mitch Rapp novel, American Assassin, comes out October 12th and should hit the top of the NYTimes bestseller list on release.


December 7th brings us the newest novel by Tom Clancy, Dead or Alive looks to be a huge seller for Christmas.


Stephen King tries to trump all the other new novels with Full Dark, No Stars which hits the shelf on November 9th.


James Patterson brings his latest Alex Cross novel, Cross Fire, to stores November 15th.


November 30th will bring us the new Scarpetta novel from Patricia Cornwell called Port Mortuary.


And for fans of the Dexter television series they get the new Dexter novel from Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious.

Elvis Presley

33 years ago today the King of Rock n Roll passed away in his home, Graceland, in Memphis TN. He was 43 years old and left behind a legacy in music and pop culture that will never be seen again or equaled.

Here is the only million selling single Elvis had in the UK and spent 9 weeks at #1 and 5 weeks at #1 on the US Hot 100, Its Now or Never

Today in History August 14th

1880 - Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, was completed ... only to be damaged again during WWII.
The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248.
Rebuilding began on this day in 1248.

Click here for the official website of the Cathedral (in German)

Bestselling Novel of 1970

The bestselling novel of 1970 according to Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review was "Love Story" by Erich Segal.
Originally written as a screenplay by Mr. Segal, but when he was able to get it produced he turned it into a novel.
Informally nominated for the National Book Award, it caused a sensation as the 5 judge panel threatened to resign if it was officially nominated. It was withdrawn from consideration but still managed to stay atop the NY Times Best Selling Fiction list for 41 weeks.
It was the last novel to have more than 40 weeks at the top before "The Da Vinci Code" logged 65 non consecutive weeks at the top between April 2003 and April 2006.
"Love Story" did become a movie and was released in December of 1970, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

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Fish Poop!

From WIRED magazine, an article on the waste of the whale shark.

The Bestselling and Most Played Single of 1957

"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley. Written by Otis Blackwell, who also wrote "Don't Be Cruel", the biggest selling single of 1956, he wrote this when challenged by a fellow songwriter. He was handed a bottle of Pepsi and told "You say you can write a song about anything, write about this" and within minutes he was playing "All Shook Up" on the piano at the Shalimar Music Publishing house.
Here the Jordanairres talk about recording "All Shook Up" and then we here the song.

Fawlty Towers

This is another of my very favorite shows of all time. Fawlty Towers was the brainchild of Monty Python alum John Cleese and his wife Connie Booth, who played Polly the hotel's maid.
John Cleese played Basil Fawlty, owner-operator of Fawlty Towers.
Probably the funniest part on the show was Manuel the waiter in the hotel restaurant, played by Andrew Sachs. Basil's wife Sybil was portrayed by Prunella Scales.
This was a lightning in a bottle show that will never be done again with only 12 episodes ever produced, 6 in 1975 and 6 in 1979.

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US Couple held in Panama for serial killings.

Trailer Park

You know sometimes I just dont know what to post or if what I find interesting will be interesting to anyone else, but I really enjoy movie trailers, so thats why I did this one.

Today its the #1 movie of 2010 (so far), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, with a box office gross of $334,191,110.00 to date.