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Posts tagged with Marissa Ashkenaz

I will admit it; I was a late-comer to Twitter. I still don’t use it to post my own tweets, but it fascinates me to read. Being obsessed with celebrity culture, I’ve been most drawn to Twitter’s most famous tweet-o-philes. I started with Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), moving on to John Mayer (@johncmayer), and then comedians […]

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How smart is my smartphone?

Posted by: | November 15, 2011 | No Comment |

I just downloaded the WordPress app on my iPhone. I’ll preface this blog by saying I will not be making any corrections to my bad typing other than what autocorrect does by default. With no other way to access theninternet I am left holding onto my phone. This is true stream of consciousness typing. This […]

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Oh the humanity

Posted by: | November 7, 2011 | No Comment |

In 1937, an announcer for WLS Chicago — Herbert Morrison — was in Lakehurst, NJ to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. It had just completed its first year of service and had successfully returned from Europe. American Airlines hired the Hindenburg to shuttle passengers from Lakehurst to Newark for connecting airplane flights. It was when they were trying […]

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Paparazzi

Posted by: | October 25, 2011 | No Comment |

“I’m your biggest fan. I’ll follow you until you love me. Papa-paparazzi.” – Lady Gaga The paparazzi as we know it is a relatively new phenomena and term. It originates from Fellini’s film, La Dolce Vita. In it, an Italian photographer named Paparazzo — an Italian dialect word that describes the annoying noise similar to […]

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With tablet devices such as the Kindle Fire and the iPad, the magazine and newspaper industry may gain some new legs to stand on. I recently upgraded my iPad to iOS5, Apple’s newest operating system for their mobile products and watched as my newspapers and magazines neatly fit themselves into Newsstand.   Apple has made […]

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With social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, news and gossip can spread like wildfire. Sometimes, it moves a little TOO fast. Word of mouth has been one of the most popular forms of passing news along since language arrived with homo sapiens. People would gather to learn the news of the day/week/month/year. Without the written word, […]

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The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby boy became a media sensation, quite possibly leading to the poorest outcome of all.

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Creepin at Starbucks

Posted by: | September 19, 2011 | No Comment |

A D.C. area Starbucks’ customer got more than he bargained for when he took his little girl to use the bathroom. Family Sues Over Hidden Bathroom Camera Taking Pictures Of 5-Year-Old Girl In DC Starbucks | wusa9.com  WASHINGTON (WUSA) — A five year old girl is now terrified to use the restroom after discovering a […]

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I will never forget being eight years old, on a long road trip across the desert from Texas to Arizona, seeing billboard signs for “The Thing?” After every mile passed, the signs became more frequent – we were 100 miles away, then 75 and then 50. With each billboard, my curiosity grew; so too did […]

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Fatty Arbuckle, victim of lies

Posted by: | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |

The media frenzy brought about by the recent Casey Anthony trial is nothing new. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was caught in the same sort of sensationalist scandal over 90 years ago.

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