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...went, and sure enough Old Harry came out," he says. "We walked around, and the streets were empty, but the cab drivers and guys in the sanitation trucks would yell, 'Hi, Harry, how ya doin'?" It was an interesting experience...
...great family. I have parents who understand. My mother understands, now even more so. My father is supportive. My dad said the most hilarious thing when I told him what I was going to do on the show. He said, "You're not going to go all flamboyant, are ya?" I was like, "Yeah, Dad, I'm going to completely change. I'm going to start wearing leather vests. I'm going to get one of those haircuts that they all have...
These stories are all either true or based on fact, but when Sedaris writes about his own family he seems not to resist satire by caricature. No one could be as loopy as his Greek grandmother Ya-Ya. Surely no one's father was ever ruled by such morbid paranoia. Do children of eight and 10 really get hold of a smutty book and then walk around chirping "tight willin' gasshole...
Biggie's songs used to the lifeblood of any hip-hop gathering. From the party anthem "Big Poppa" to the menacing "Who Shot Ya?" his music was always a crowd pleaser. But listening to Biggie's catchy rhymes about violence, money, blunts, women and designer clothes frequently leads to gloomy retrospection. Listening to so-called gangsta rap music now not only evokes memories of the recent slayings of rappers but also provokes a more significant contemplation of the thousands of young black men who are cut down in their prime every year...
Your dear lost cousin just crawled out of a swamp in Australia and needs cash. How ya gonna get it there? Western Union, probably. It's been a consistent choice in such situations. So would anyone really invest in a rival money-transfer company called MoneyGram, set to raise a hefty $230 million in an initial public offering of stock next week? Just watch...