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My Favorite Jerry Springer Moment

A very pretty girl was on once. She didn’t seem like the usual Springer contestant. She seemed even college educated, which I imagine isn’t usually the case. She brings her boyfriend out and the

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Big Star vs The Raspberries

A response to the following article From  Cleveland’s Scene http://www.clevescene.com/2007-08-15/music/why-the-hype/ We (Cleveland) need a double shot of ethanol, washed down with a tallboy of sodium pentothal… they(The Raspberries)’re no ‘power-pop masters.’ … And they

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Muhammad Ali

  Along with Jackie Robinson, the only athlete that ever really mattered. He’s my favorite poet (delivery counts big with me) and the first and most uplifting rapper of all time. Was this fighting

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The Unholy Trinity

I can’t imagine how stupid our world will look someday when people try to figure out why more time was spent covering Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsey Lohan than George Bush’s Reign of

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Damn Yankees

Personally, I don’t think you are a true sports fan unless you truly believe in your heart that watching your favorite team play gives them a better chance at winning as if your love

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Bull Durham

Bull Durham is the best movie ever made about baseball, and it’s not even really that close. Writer-Director Ron Shelton was a minor league player and he knows the in and outs of the

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The Natural

John Tunis wrote these great epic baseball novels for kids starring Roy Tucker as The Kid From Tomkinsville about a young country boy who was destined to be the greatest pitcher of all time.

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Graffiti Bridge

I must say this movie has aged far better than it ever had any right to, but here I am again to argue for the brilliance of Prince’s sort of Purple Rain sequel Graffiti

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The Idolmaker

“The men don’t know, but the little girls understand”  Teen idols haven’t always been a pure indication of little talent. There was Elvis, The Beatles, Ricky Nelson, The Jackson Five and on the warped

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The Girl Can’t Help It

The typical film about the early years of Rock and Roll was called something like Rock Rock Rock or Don’t Knock the Rock, was in black and white, had Alan Freed in it, and

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