Quick laugh

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What they are watching... Episode VIII

Our look at what the teens and tweens of America are watching. You may have caught some of our earlier episodes [scroll down]. This is the latest viral video sweeping Orange County, North Carolina.

Fellas: Love your body more

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Sweet sidecar in Hillsborough

Latest fad, Silly Bandz, banned

Sea shaped Silly Bandz
There are literally hundreds of other shapes...

You may not have even had an opportunity to hear about the latest craze of the tweens and their younger siblings, Silly Bandz, and already these fantastically shaped, stretchy, colorful bracelets are being banned from schools. Silly Bandz are rubber band–like silicone bracelets, which sell for about $5 bucks per pack of twenty-four. [Imagine the killing they are making on those?!?] Elementary schools in Raleigh, NC have already started to ban the latest craze as a distraction to kids' learning, which, of course, only insures their popularity will continue to increase.

According to Yahoo, BCP Import, a small business in Toledo, Ohio, is behind the bracelets. It was hardly prepared for the fad frenzy. It has increased its team from twenty employees to 200 during the past year and added twenty-two phone lines to keep up with inquiries. Yahoo also reports that Macy's is considering a Silly Bandz float in this year's Thanksgiving parade. Although Silly Bandz have been available for two years, Yahoo estimates the tipping point was only about a year ago.

What they are watching... Episode VII

Our look at what the teens and tweens of America are watching. You may have caught our first couple of episodes. This is less of a what are they watching and more of a what are they listening to, in this case Asher Roth.




Kind of a catchy tune.

Caught on Main Street

We walked by this beauty on Main Street in Durham, NC out in front of the Federal. It was in a great shape. Pity our photog didn't have a better camera with them.

Musicians to boycott Arizona

de la Rocha

The Clarion Content is vehemently opposed to the new Arizona law, allowing the state to demand papers at simply traffic stops. It is entirely to Soviet for our liking. As such we were glad to read in the BBC that a group of musicians called The Sound Strike led by Los Angeles rockers Rage Against The Machine and including Cypress Hill, Massive Attack and System Of A Down's Serj Tankian, are boycotting performing shows in Arizona until law SB 1070 is amended.

The BBC quoted Rage Against The Machine's lead singer Zacarías Manuel de la Rocha, "Some of us grew up dealing with racial profiling, but this law takes it to a whole new low."

Glad to hear the artists speaking out and using what financial clout that they have.

Not what you want to see

This is a link to a seriously twisted story and You Tube video. It is a two year-old Indonesian toddler puffing away on a cigarette. British media outlets broke the news about Ardi Rizal, who allegedly smoked his first rocket at eighteen months under the watch of his father, Mohammed, thirty. The boy’s habit hasn’t escaped public notice in Sumatra, Indonesia. Reportedly, concerned local officials have offered to buy the family a car if young Ardi quits smoking.

Census Taker

As you may have noted, dear readers, the Census is going on, every ten years the Federal Government counts how many people are living in the United States. Not by estimating or projecting or sampling and extrapolating, nope they map the location of every residence in the United States, and mail them a questionnaire. If the questionnaire is not sent back, they send someone door to door to follow-up and do an interview. Most times in probably does not goes as bad as things do in this old Christopher Walken Saturday Night Live skit. Sorry about the crummy video quality. If anyone can find us a better video we will gladly post it.