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  • Beatles' Ringo Starr tells fans to stop writing to him

    10/13/2008 6:10:06 PM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 70 replies · 1,446+ views
    NME.com ^ | 10/13/08
    The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has ordered his fans to stop sending him fanmail. The drummer says he's got "too much to do" and warns he'll throw any fanmail in the bin after October 20 in a video posted on his website. "This is a serious message to everybody watching," Starr says in the clip. "I want to tell you that after the 20th of October please do not send any fanmail to any address you have. If that is the date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed. "I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much...
  • Clued and Clueless

    06/06/2006 1:20:58 PM PDT · by JSedreporter · 2 replies · 269+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | June 6, 2006 | Malcolm A. Kline
    When the always provocative American Council of Trustees and Alumni issued its critical report of the Universities of North Carolina, the group’s typically thorough review got a surprising fan letter. “As I prepared for this job, I read your report [Governance in the Public Interest: A Case Study of the University of North Carolina System] thoroughly some time ago,” the incoming president of the UNC system had written. “There are many recommendations in this report that I agree with totally.” “Thank you for doing it; it has been an extraordinary help to me.” In its first decade of existence, ACTA...
  • Babalu Blog - Below the fold

    02/01/2005 4:20:27 AM PST · by Kitten Festival · 2 replies · 158+ views
    Babalu Blog ^ | Jan. 31, 2005 | Val Prieto
    Here's an interesting dichotomy: There's a story about me and Babalu Blog on the front page of today's Miami Herald. I was interviewed a few weeks ago, a photographer came by the house and shot the pictures. I wasnt sure why anyone would want to run a story on me or my blogging. I mean, I just sit here in front of the computer and write about things and issues that are important to me. I write about family and politics and pig cooking. But, obviously and as most of you that come here regularly know, I write mostly about...