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• End of Year Browse -

  If you've sensibly decided to stay off the roads tonight and safely away from erratic drivers, you can curl up somewhere cosy and enjoy a bit of literary lagniappe . . .
  
  # Rachel Arons has compiled some of the
  most notable Literary Feuds of the past' [...]
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• FL Top of the Pop 2012 -

  Florida's top news story of this past
  year according to the vox pop around
  here was the Causeway Cannibal Attack . . .
  
  A Haitian man, who had been circulating in an outdoor social gathering where someone could have slipped a strange mickey into his drink, attacked [...]
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• Paper or Virtual Elves -

  It's Christmas Eve 2012 as I write this entry
  or, as the Cuban Spaniards call it, Nochebuena . . .
  
  Newsweek Magazine is saying goodbye to its print
  artifact. And the Tribune newspapers are dropping the Associated Press.
  
  Tribune is the parent company of the [...]
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• Browsing Around -

  An informal chat
  with writer Michael Chabon . . .
  
  about some of his favorite pop culture this past year. He is currently engaged in creating a project for HBO Cable TV about a team of charlatans who are recruited by British intelligence to perpetrate deceptions against [...]
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• Sneakerhead Uproar -

  There's big money in celebrity athlete sneakers,
  especially when a limited edition is issued . . .
  
  In Miami Gardens many youngsters who are fans of Air Jordan were disappointed because burglars got to the available sneaker supply of Air Jordan XI "Breds" before the kids could take [...]
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• Spoofing on Tragedy -

  William Henderson is reporting that there are fraudsters posting fake messages on the Internet who are pretending to be the Sandy Hook school shooter.
  
  I have lived through a number of these school shootings, shopping mall shootings, and similar events. The Mainstream American Media has settled into a [...]
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• Spoofing on Tragedy -

  William Henderson is reporting that there are fraudsters posting fake messages on the Internet who are pretending to be the Sandy Hook school shooter.
  
  I have lived through a number of these school shootings, shopping mall shootings, and similar events. The Mainstream American Media has settled into a [...]
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• Witness #8 Speaks -

  A Discovery Hearing was held yesterday morning in the Sanford Shooting Case which I watched on the InSession TV program. The most interesting part of their coverage for me was the material about Dee Dee.
  
  First, they played the recording which was given to Defense; it was unintelligible and [...]
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• Miami: Chasing Bygone Lights -

  The Miami Herald building has been denied landmark preservation status; it will be demolished. The property was sold by McClatchy to the Genting Group.
  
  "The building became home to The Miami Herald when the newspaper outgrew its original building, and it became the birthplace of El Nuevo Herald," [...]
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• SoFlo Local Notes -

  For the rest of us . . .
  
  Some people have become fed up with the over-commercialization of the winter holidays, while others have become antagonized by the proliferation of cultural diversity gestures lately. For the sake of those who are disgruntled, disaffected or just plain grumpy, one gutsy rebel [...]
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