DCS: abe vigoda

Abe Vigoda died earlier this week. His career bridged eight decades and he spent the last few of those decades convincing the public that he wasn’t dead. He played mostly bit parts in the early days of television including long stints on the popular soap operas As The World Turns and Dark Shadows. Always giving the …

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happy holidays 2015 from JPiC

My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD at ge.tt or jumpshare.com for a limited time. This year, it’s a whopping 79 minutes worth of Christmas cacophony that’s sure to ruin your holiday celebration within seconds. You get 27 eclectic Christmas selections plus a custom full-color cover with track listings – all for you …

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IF: punch

In 1934, huddled away in a converted garage in Fullerton, California, ice cream topping entrepreneurs A.W. Leo, Tom Yates and Ralph Harrison mixed and blended and experimented with a variety of fruit flavors. They finally hit upon the perfect combination of seven fruits: apple, apricot, guava, orange, papaya, passion fruit, and pineapple. They sold the product to area restaurants …

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IF: whimsical

In 2009, April Winchell, the versatile and multi-talented actress, launched the website Regretsy.com. It was a raucous and bitingly satirical take on the popular etsy.com website, a so-called marketplace for all things handmade. But, April (under the guise of “Helen Killer”) regularly scanned the many listings on etsy in search of items that were weird, …

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