Spinning wheel
The king of cowboy style is dead at the age of 107. Jack Weil's Western shirts graced the big screen on the backs of both Clark Gable and Heath Ledger. So goes one of the last American CEOs who believed in the Made in the USA label. "I never wanted to be the richest man in the cemetery," he said. I like that.---
Madonna turns 50 tomorrow. She's almost reached an age in which "underwear-as-outerwear" has always been socially acceptable.
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They crowned Iowa's elderly king and queen at the state fair Wednesday. The selected queen, Margaret Hurley of Johnston, was the oldest registered participant at 101 years old. Madonna came in second.
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It would be a nice gesture on Barack Obama's part to allow Hillary Clinton to join him when he takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day.
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America is in the midst of the rebirth of the streetcar line. Hear, hear. Affordable, efficient, and green. As our forefathers said on so many occasions-- look to Cincinnati.
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Bob Saget is the roast-ee of this year's Comedy Central celebrity roast. The event airs on the cable channel Sunday night at 9 central.
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In the Sherman Hill neighborhood here in Des Moines, the annual Walking Tour will be September 20 & 21, 27 & 28. Tickets are $10/day. Stop by if you're in the area. The Moeller Penthouse on 15th Street, however, will be off-limits to the prying public.
Fast on the heels of the Walking Tour then might be the first-ever Sherman Hill Halloween celebration in October. (The event is in the planning stages, says today's Register.) My condo is haunted only by the ghost of my radio career. Neighbors claim that sometimes late in the evening they can hear a disembodied old voice from KXNO reading a list of partial ballgame scores.
posted by CM @ 11:49 AM
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"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati, because it's always twenty years behind the times."
- Mark Twain
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