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But after all that tryptophan, who feels up to the treadmill?…
From Smooth Fitness, a timely infographic: to enlarge, click the image above, or here As we prepare to loosen our belts, we might recall that it was on this date in 1975 that KC and the Sunshine Band...
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Duck!…
Lars von Trier and The Duck A mock trailer for a “Dogme 95” – Donald Duck movie, from Icelandic television’s Mid-Island show. The pretentious checklist of the Danish avant-garde cinematic movement...
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A rose by any other name…
click here for full size From Geotastic, “Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World.” ### As book our next vacations, we might recall that it was on this date in 1980 that Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will...
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“Disco is from hell, okay? And not the cool part of hell with all the...
A 1976 recording of the theme from M*A*S*H, about the 1977 release of which, Tom Mouton of Billboard wrote: The strongest [of three recent singles from FARR Records] is ‘Song From M*A*S*H’ by the New...
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“The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door...
In 1977, at the height of the disco craze, a club opened at 254 West 54th Street in New York City. Studio 54 was—and, arguably, remains—the world’s most renowned and legendary disco. Regularly...
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“Disco is the best floor show in town. It’s very democratic, boys with boys,...
Yolanda Baker has been making disco balls every week of her life for nearly 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Baker, known as Yo Yo to her colleagues, works for Louisville’s Omega National...
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“Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don’t believe in him?”*…
David Shatz on an important important– and surely the funniest– modern philosopher… Many have heard the story about the British philosopher [Oxford linguisitic philosopher J. L. Austin] who asserted...
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