An excerpt from a Fox News article:
FOXNews.com – Disney World Tells Santa Lookalike to Hit the Road
“They told me I either needed to alter my appearance or I needed to leave the park because I was impersonating Santa Claus. They told us that Santa was considered a Disney character,’ said Worley.
Santa is now a Disney [...]

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If you’ve been a remote guest on TV before, you’ll already know this stuff. But I thought it was interesting the first time around and figured that some of you might, too.
I was on the Fox News show Heartland with John Kasich tonight.
Here’s what goes into just a minute or two of a show [...]

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I’m scheduled to be on Fox News’ “Heartland with John Kasich” at 5:30 p.m. my time, which is 8:30 p.m. east coast, this Saturday (December 16th). I’ll be in the San Francisco studio so I’m assuming they’re going to remote me into a little box behind John’s head.

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I met with the woman who would be my editor at this particular publisher for The Book, if they buy it — see, I dropped Book 3 after spending the past few months researching and starting it, and have decided to move on to The Book instead which is a modified version of what was [...]

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Nothing is a done deal yet, but I finally talked to an acquisitions editor about a project I am code-naming The Book, and her response was even more encouraging than I expected. I showed her a (very) draft proposal yesterday and need to get her a full outline and “hook” by the end of next [...]

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At about 5:15 p.m. today (thursday) Pacific time, which seems to be around 1:15 a.m. (friday) in England, I’ll be on Up All Night on BBC 5 radio:
BBC – Five Live – Up All Night

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God DAMN it. God FUCKING damn it. This is not how this story was supposed to go.

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A page with email contact, phone numbers if you have information, and a guest book to leave your well wishes:
Please help us find the Kim Family
Tip Line – (800) 452-7888
If you are not in Oregon please call 503-375-3555 and 503-731-3030
In oregon and california, especially watch: Highways 42, US101, 199, I-5 and other areas between

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This story made me cry:
ABC News: Search Continues for James Kim
I know James; we worked together at TechTV. I’m so glad Kati and the kids have been found and are okay — and now I want James back too.
I’m going to look around and see if there’s anything I can do. The family paid for [...]

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If you have to go to a store in December rather than shop online, you probably need to turn on your air conditioner at least until you get moving; at the very least, roll your windows down. And just in case the store is a bit chilly, take a scarf along — one that coordinates [...]

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Hey look! Another column! This one’s a profile of some cool folks doing cool things:
Wired News: Animated Porn Makes Moves
Imagine what you could do with erotic entertainment if you weren’t bound by the laws of physics or 18 U.S.C. 2257.
By physics, of course, I mean the limitations of gravity, proportion, body mass. And by 18 [...]

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You wouldn’t know it, but I think of a story to blog every 10 minutes, at least. OK, maybe once an hour. But because I don’t have a subvocal implant with a direct connection to my Wordpress input screen, I don’t get to share them. And by the time I’m at a computer with a [...]

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