In the latest you’ve got to be kidding, in funerary trends, funeral directors are now telling us that people currently under 40 are increasingly requesting to be buried with their cellphones, or in some cases with their Ipods or Xbox games. “It really started happening within the last five or six years,” says Frank Perman,…

First a little background info, courtesy of Amazon. Here is what they say about the author and the fairy tale book, which is the basis of the movie ‘The Tale of Despereaux’: “Kate DiCamillo, author of the Newbery Honor book “Because of Winn-Dixie”, spins a tidy tale of mice and men where she explores the…

In a move that suggests that Obama does indeed intend to try to be everyone’s President, the President elect named Rick Warren to say the invocation at his inauguration. Here is the link to the story— http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/politics/18inaug.html?th&emc=th The reaction today to this move was predicable as protests came from both the gay and lesbian lobby…

There is an enormously poignant story about Julius Erving and his long lost daughter Alexandra Stevenson by Tom Friend as a featured story on ESPN’s award-winning show ‘Outside the Lines’. Here is the link to the script of the story, and some video highlights as well—-http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=drjandalexandra It will show up as a TV broadcast next…

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