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Archive for October 6th, 2011
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011I want to ride in the car…
Thursday, October 6th, 2011…John Wayne drove.
Earlier this week, Lawrence noted the Heritage auction of John Wayne’s stuff.
Today, the HouChron kindly informs us that one of John Wayne’s cars, a “1966 International TravelAll”, is for sale on eBay. The “Buy it now” price is a mere one million dollars.
In one of those “only in Texas” things, the car is actually owned by a state legislator from El Paso who says that he only drove it to church on Sunday a few hundred miles.
“It’s got the original seat that John Wayne passed gas on,” Pickett said.
Yeah. I think now we know why Rep. Pickett went into politics instead of sales.
A fool lies here who tried to hustle the yeast.
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Interesting piece in the LAT about Bacardi, the specific strain of yeast they use to make rum, and how the Bacardi family played “keep away” when Castro took power.
Tranströmer! More than meets the eye!
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Tomas Tranströmer has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
I admit to being unfamiliar with the works of Mr. Tranströmer. I am sure he is a very nice gentleman and fully deserving of the award.
However, I wanted to make note of Mr. Tranströmer’s win because of this LAT piece from yesterday. Ladbrokes was apparently giving 5-1 odds that Bob Dylan would win this year.
I might have to see about putting a few bucks on Pynchon in 2012.
Edited to add: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly posted this before FARK posted their headline.