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from the news:
Leona Helmsley, the recently deceased hotel owner known as the Queen of Mean, has left her white Maltese, Trouble, a 12 million dollar trust fund. No doubt to sue anyone who calls her a bitch or treats her like a dog.
Old school:
The journalism school at the University of Missouri is world famous. At least when I was in college, if you wanted to be somebody in journalism you either went to Mizzou or Columbia University. It wasn't easy to get into the J school. I knew several people from around the globe who went to Missouri just to go to the J school and either couldn't get in or couldn't keep up with the work once they got in. In the latest alum magazine from the U, the dean of the J school admitted that the need for journalists is actually dropping since the way news is gathered and distributed has changed. Nevertheless Missouri's J school has decided to grow and is taking over the Sociology building next door to the old facilities. The magazine showed a picture of the gutted Sociology building which will be connected to the building beside it when it is renovated. And believe me it needed to be renovated! I actually had a Sociology class in the Sociology building. Of course at that time, it was called the New Chemistry Building, though even then it was plenty old. The ceilings were impossibly high. The floors were wooden and creaked with every step 40 years ago. In front of the lecture room where I had a class, there was a burn mark about two feet across on the wood floor, from a class demonstration gone wrong in the days back when the building had been used for chemistry classes.
On the vampire front:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0902Chupacabra0902.html
CUERO, Texas - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
(In case you don't want to sign in through the link.) Phylis thinks the beasts have killed thirty of her chickens by draining them of their blood. There is a picture of her holding the head of something that looks like a cross between a stuffed toy pig and a plastic dog, with big fangs naturally! No word on whether Buffy was sighted in the area, or why the animal didn't turn to a pile of dust when its head was removed.
Leona Helmsley, the recently deceased hotel owner known as the Queen of Mean, has left her white Maltese, Trouble, a 12 million dollar trust fund. No doubt to sue anyone who calls her a bitch or treats her like a dog.
Old school:
The journalism school at the University of Missouri is world famous. At least when I was in college, if you wanted to be somebody in journalism you either went to Mizzou or Columbia University. It wasn't easy to get into the J school. I knew several people from around the globe who went to Missouri just to go to the J school and either couldn't get in or couldn't keep up with the work once they got in. In the latest alum magazine from the U, the dean of the J school admitted that the need for journalists is actually dropping since the way news is gathered and distributed has changed. Nevertheless Missouri's J school has decided to grow and is taking over the Sociology building next door to the old facilities. The magazine showed a picture of the gutted Sociology building which will be connected to the building beside it when it is renovated. And believe me it needed to be renovated! I actually had a Sociology class in the Sociology building. Of course at that time, it was called the New Chemistry Building, though even then it was plenty old. The ceilings were impossibly high. The floors were wooden and creaked with every step 40 years ago. In front of the lecture room where I had a class, there was a burn mark about two feet across on the wood floor, from a class demonstration gone wrong in the days back when the building had been used for chemistry classes.
On the vampire front:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0902Chupacabra0902.html
CUERO, Texas - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
(In case you don't want to sign in through the link.) Phylis thinks the beasts have killed thirty of her chickens by draining them of their blood. There is a picture of her holding the head of something that looks like a cross between a stuffed toy pig and a plastic dog, with big fangs naturally! No word on whether Buffy was sighted in the area, or why the animal didn't turn to a pile of dust when its head was removed.