CBS Cancels “As the World Turns”

Unemployment in Oakdale, Illinois will hit 100 percent in September. Not the real town of Oakdale near Peoria, but the fictional one, setting of the daytime drama As the World Turns. CBS says it will cancel the 54-year-old soap opera next year, after 13,000 episodes.

Three months ago the midwestern town of Springfield vanished when The Guiding Light went off the air.

 

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DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday December 9th

This month’s Washington, DC Blogger Meetup is today, (Wednesday, December 9, 2009) at 7 PM at a new venue, a Dupont Circle watering hole (near Metro). RSVP by 4 PM Wednesday (requires free Meetup registration).

Founded in 2002, this Meetup provides opportunities for Metro DC area blog writers and readers to share experiences and tips, drink beer, socialize, drink beer, and plan collaborative blogging projects and other events. Did we mention that beer is available?

Spend a couple of hours with other DC bloggers this evening. You can blog about global warming later tonight.

 UPDATE:

Did you miss the event? Catch up with bloggers who were there:

Web Master Tool Center

Durosia.com

Free World Pulse

Comings and Goings

Kiss My Country

Titanium Effect

I Run For You

In The Feeds

e-ssay.org

Spleeness.com

 

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Palin Quits Book Signing Tour!

In case you missed it, when former Alaska Temp-Governor Sarah Palin left a Borders bookstore in Noblesville, Indiana on November 19th, hundreds of supporters bid her adieu with heartfelt chants of “Quitter! Quitter!”

Tai Shan, the Movie

Tai Shan, the young Giant Panda born in Washington DC, is heading to his ancestral homeland to seek romance. Okay, to participate in a breeding program in Sichuan Province, China.

Still, it sounds like a great premise for a film.

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Terrorist Elf Attacks Santa!

The elf at Southlake Mall cut into the line of kids waiting to see Santa. Five feet tall and 108 pounds, he was dressed in tights and a red-and-green jacket with jingle bells. He carried two duffel bags, and told Santa they were full of dynamite.

Santa called mall security and headed through the food court, towards the North Pole. Police were called, the mall evacuated, and the bomb squad searched the elf’s bags.

The elf, 45-year-old William Caldwell, told a fib — there was no dynamite. Gonna get lumps of coal in his little stocking this Christmas. He’s also in jail, charged with suspicion of creating false public alarm, reckless conduct, terrorist threats and acts, possession of a hoax device, and aggravated breach of Holiday Spirit.

Creditor Repossesses DC Panda

Tai Shan, the National Zoo’s four-year-old panda cub, will be sent to the People’s Republic of China, the largest U.S. creditor, Smithsonian officials announced today. 

The United States owes China approximately eleventy-seven trillion dollars plus three giant pandas.

Panda repo details here.

 

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Palin: Just Plane Folks

Mrs. Sarah Palin, who once held a temp job as Alaska’s governor and got elected as a small town mayor so she could hire a city manager to do her job for her, has learned from all those grueling months in public life. Her recent running mate, presidential candidate Senator John McCain, rented a campaign bus to reach out to the hoi polloi, but actually travelled on a private jet owned by his wife, a millionaire beer baroness.

Mrs. Palin is campaigning to sell “her” book (ghost-written by Christian magazine editor Lynn Vincent) with a tour bus  that drives to Sam’s clubs and strip malls across the USA.  The bus on this “road trip” is so highly decorated that you can’t even see if Mrs. Palin is aboard.  That’s handy, because she isn’t.

Mrs. Palin is actually travelling on (you guessed it) a private jet that rents for $4,000 an hour. The aircraft is reported to be a Gulfstream II with two Rolls-Royce Spey 511-8 turbofan engines, a 4,123 mile range, and a top speed of 581 mph. Technical specifications for the Palin tour bus are not available.

NaBloPoMo Prizes Awarded

November was National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). Bloggers were encouraged to post each day of the month (we missed a few).

Prizes were awarded to the most active NaBloPoMo participants. More here.

 

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